ABSTRACT
And forget your father’s house too, as David advises next. ‘Your father’ he calls that sinful act through which your mother conceived you – that indecent heat of the flesh, that burning itch of physical desire, that animal union, that shameless coupling, that stinking and wanton deed, full of filthiness. (It is, nevertheless, to be tolerated to some extent within marriage, as you will hear later.) If you ask why God created such a thing, this is my answer: God never created it to be like this, but Adam and Eve perverted it through their sin and corrupted our nature, which is the house of this vice, which has – unfortunately – far too much dominance and mastery there.
