None of you shall approach to any that is near of kin to him, to uncover [their] nakedness: I [am] the LORD.
Ver. 6. None of you shall approach,] viz., To couple carnally with them. Eze 18:6 Isa 8:3 Yea, though it be under a pretext of marriage: for by marriage they seem to justify their incest, which makes it the worse, saith Tostatus, whose reason here I like better than that of Cardinal Campeius, though it sound somewhat like. If comparison should be made, said this carnal cardinal, much greater offence it is for a priest to have a wife than to have and keep at home many harlots. For they that keep harlots, said he, a as it is naught that they do, so do they acknowledge their sin; the other persuade themselves they do well, and so persist without repentance or conscience of their fact.
a Act. and Mon., fol. 790.