Barnes' Notes on Judges 19:23

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Albert Barnes (1798–1870) · 19th-century historical commentary
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This man is come into mine house - He appeals to the sacred rights of hospitality, just as Lot did Genesis 19:8. Both cases betray painfully the low place in the social scale occupied by woman in the old world, from which it is one of the glories of Christianity to have raised her. return to 'Top of Page'

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