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and, lo, he hath laid shameful things [to her charge], saying, I found not in thy daughter the tokens of virginity; and yet these are the tokens of my daughter's virginity. And they shall spread the garment before the elders of the city.
Commentary on this verse
By Alexander Payne
Verse 17. And desires to make it appear that the affection was impure; and yet it was patent before the primary truths of doctrine that the affection was a good and holy one, undefiled with the loves of self and of the world;