But all the women children, that have not known a man by lying with him, keep alive for yourselves.
Ver. 18. That have not known a man.] As far as they could conjecture by their age. But the way of a man with a maid, is one of Solomon's secrets. Pro 30:19 Of Rebecca it is noted, that she went for a maid, and she was so. Gen 24:16 But Quartilla, the strumpet in Petronius, was not ashamed to say, Iunonem meam iratam habeam, si unquam me meminerim virginem fuisse, a That she could not remember that ever she was a maid. And what a base slander was that cast upon our religion by an impudent Jesuit, Sylvester Petrasancta, Puellas plerumque corruptas nuptui dari in reformato Evangelio, b That few maids amongst us come clear to marriage.
a Petron., Satyr.
b Rivetti Jesuita Vapulans.