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Thomas Aquinas, on Job 31:9
Thomas Aquinas · 1225–1274
Job 31:9 · Douay-Rheims
“If my heart hath been deceived upon a woman, and if I have laid wait at my friend’s door:”
On this verse:
“In adultery, however, a man plots deceitfully against the wife of his neighbor, and this plot is preceded by a certain deception of heart, as long as reason is darkened by concupiscence, and so he says, "If my heart has been deceived by a woman," referring to the desire of the wife of another. From the fact that the heart is conquered by concupiscence for a woman, one tries to possess the woman desired by any deceitful means whatever, and so he says, "and if I have lain in wait at my neighbor's door," to take advantage of his wife.”
Imported from an open dataset — not yet checked against the printed edition.