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170 the seventh verse of this chapter. "He was," says Adam Clarke, in his Succession of Sacred Literature, (p. 50,) "brought up in the celebrated school of Rabbi Hillel, grandfather to Gamaliel, at whose feet St. Paul was brought up. Hillel died about the time of our Saviour's birth; and Jonathan, who was the most famous of all his scholars, and equalled by the Jewish Rabbins to Moses himself, continued to flourish a long time after." This famous Jewish Rabbi regarded the seventh verse as addressed directly to the woman, as well as to the man. His interpretation is this: "Turpitudinem patris tui et turpitudinem matris tuæ non contemnes: mulier non rem habebit cum patre suo, et vir non coibit cum matre sua; mater tua est, non revelabis turpitudinem ejus.

Compare this with Omicron's assertion, (p. 27, 5th par.,) "that the Mosaic law relative to marriage and the sexes, such as those in Levit. 18:6–18, (however we might understand them, if now first given to us in the present state of society,) were addressed only to Hebrew men." How opposite to the views of this famous Jewish Rabbi!