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I read a quote saying

(From the new testament) which said: "It is better to lay with a prostitute and pay the price of a loaf of bread, rather than betray your wife and lose everything"

Doesn't that mean that you should not marry if you would commit adultery, and just sleep with prostitutes instead?
 

Bishka

Veteran Member
Snakedragon said:
(From the new testament) which said: "It is better to lay with a prostitute and pay the price of a loaf of bread, rather than betray your wife and lose everything"

Doesn't that mean that you should not marry if you would commit adultery, and just sleep with prostitutes instead?

I'd be of better service to you if I knew where that came from.

If you don't mind.:p
 

Faint

Well-Known Member
Snakedragon said:
(From the new testament) which said: "It is better to lay with a prostitute and pay the price of a loaf of bread, rather than betray your wife and lose everything"

Doesn't that mean that you should not marry if you would commit adultery, and just sleep with prostitutes instead?
Welcome Snakedragon. Where in the Bible did you find this?
 
Faint said:
Welcome Snakedragon. Where in the Bible did you find this?


It was in one R.E lesson last year where i was reading the New Testament. I'm not sure of the place of the bible though, but what I wrote above is pretty much what the quote is (about 90% unaltered)
 

Bishka

Veteran Member
Snakedragon said:
It was in one R.E lesson last year where i was reading the New Testament. I'm not sure of the place of the bible though, but what I wrote above is pretty much what the quote is (about 90% unaltered)

It would actually be helpful if you could find it, but I'll try looking it up.
 

Random

Well-Known Member
Snakedragon said:
(From the new testament) which said: "It is better to lay with a prostitute and pay the price of a loaf of bread, rather than betray your wife and lose everything"

I've read the Bible twice, Good News and official RC versions, and this is definitely not in the NT. You've been misinformed, Snakedragon.
 

Faint

Well-Known Member
Snakedragon said:
It was in one R.E lesson last year where i was reading the New Testament. I'm not sure of the place of the bible though, but what I wrote above is pretty much what the quote is (about 90% unaltered)
Is it this:

24 to preserve you from the wife of another,
from the smooth tongue of the adulteress.
25 Do not desire her beauty in your heart,
and do not let her capture you with her eyelashes;
26 for a prostitute's fee is only a loaf of bread,
but the wife of another stalks a man's very life.
:confused:
 
@Faint:

26 for a prostitute's fee is only a loaf of bread,
but the wife of another stalks a man's very life.

That's it

My interpretation is that a prostitute is cheap, so go to them if you dont want to commit yourself to marriage, rather than losing everything if you commit adultery on your wife
 
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angellous_evangellous

Guest
Snakedragon said:
(From the new testament) which said: "It is better to lay with a prostitute and pay the price of a loaf of bread, rather than betray your wife and lose everything"

Doesn't that mean that you should not marry if you would commit adultery, and just sleep with prostitutes instead?

That's not in the Christian NT.

Where did you find this?
 
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angellous_evangellous

Guest
Ok I found it - the quote is a translation of Proverbs 6, in the Old Testament.

Here's Proverbs 6.20-35

20My son, keep your father's commandment,
and forsake not your mother's teaching.
21Bind them on your heart always;
tie them around your neck.
22When you walk, they[d] will lead you;
when you lie down, they will watch over you;
and when you awake, they will talk with you.
23For the commandment is a lamp and the teaching a light,
and the reproofs of discipline are the way of life,
24to preserve you from the evil woman,[e]
from the smooth tongue of the adulteress.[f]
25Do not desire her beauty in your heart,
and do not let her capture you with her eyelashes;
26for the price of a prostitute is only a loaf of bread,[g]
but a married woman[h] hunts down a precious life.
27Can a man carry fire next to his chest
and his clothes not be burned?
28Or can one walk on hot coals
and his feet not be scorched?
29So is he who goes in to his neighbor's wife;
none who touches her will go unpunished.
30People do not despise a thief if he steals
to satisfy his appetite when he is hungry,
31but if he is caught, he will pay sevenfold;
he will give all the goods of his house.
32He who commits adultery lacks sense;
he who does it destroys himself.
33Wounds and dishonor will he get,
and his disgrace will not be wiped away.
34For jealousy makes a man furious,
and he will not spare when he takes revenge.
35He will accept no compensation;
he will refuse though you multiply gifts.

Note: Proverbs 6:26 Or (compare Septuagint, Syriac, Vulgate) for a prostitute leaves a man with nothing but a loaf of bread

The OP is more than a little interpretative, and ignores the remainder of the passage:

The phrase "it is better" is added...

"It is better to lay with a prostitute and pay the price of a loaf of bread, rather than betray your wife and lose everything"
 

Terrywoodenpic

Oldest Heretic
It would seem to be advising young men to seek the service of prostitutes rather than comit adultery.

Though I Don't think the new testament thinks much of adultary or fornication.

The quote does not seem to be about the moral issue, rather it warns of the retribution that follows adultary.
 

Faint

Well-Known Member
Terrywoodenpic said:
It would seem to be advising young men to seek the service of prostitutes rather than comit adultery.

The quote does not seem to be about the moral issue, rather it warns of the retribution that follows adultary.
That was my impression. I wonder amount of currency a loaf of bread back then would translate to in today's market?
 
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angellous_evangellous

Guest
Faint said:
That was my impression. I wonder amount of currency a loaf of bread back then would translate to in today's market?

Not much.

It's the equivalent of a happy meal from McDonalds.
 

michel

Administrator Emeritus
Staff member
King James Version reads.
For by means of a whorish woman a man is brought to a piece of bread: and the adultress will hunt for the precious life

But I cannot find anyone's interpretation of it.......
 
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