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fornication 1. Law voluntary sexual intercourse between two persons of the opposite sex, where one is or both are unmarried 2. Bible sexual immorality in general, esp adultery How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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The body is meant not for fornication but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body. Inevitably where legal marriage was broadly proscribed--and there was, moreover, a high ratio of settler and slave men to women--concubinage and fornication were rife. In perhaps the most speculative part of the book, and therefore the least convincing, he sees in the references to hands and feel euphemisms for masturbation and penises/ fornication respectively (and certainly not to be taken literally), and in the reference to "whoever causes the little ones to stumble" (Matt 9:42) an allusion to and condemnation of pederasty. |
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