She said, No man, Lord. And Jesus said unto her, Neither do I condemn thee: go, and sin no more.
Ver. 11. Neither do I condemn thee] Hence an Anabaptist will argue that adultery is not to be punished (as they did from that text, "whoremongers and adulterers God will judge," therefore men ought not to meddle with them). But they may as well say that inheritances are not to be divided between brethren, because our Saviour refused to divide them,Luke 12:14, it being without the lists of his calling, no proper employment of his.