[112] _Michaelis_, “Mosaisches Recht,” (Mosaic Law), Pt. V. p. 304. From 1 Kings Ch. 3. v. 16. it might indeed be gathered that such establishments were in existence; but strictly speaking the passage proves only that two women of this character dwelt in a particular house. Comp. _Philo_, De special. legg. (Works ed. Mangey, Vol. II. p. 308.). The _maidens’ chambers_ that according to 2 Kings, Ch. 17. v. 30. were set up in the precincts of the Temple at Jerusalem were cells with figures of Astarté, in which the Jewish maidens offered themselves to the goddess, and so in fact though not in name brothels. [113] _Proverbs_, Ch. 7. vv. 6-27. Compare _Genesis_, Ch. 38. v. 14.—_Ezekiel_, Ch. 25. [114] _Leviticus_, Ch. 19. v. 19.—_Deuteronomy_, Ch. 23. v. 17.; this latter passage _Beer_ (loco citato) would fain utilise to free the Jews from the suspicion of having disseminated the Venereal disease in the XVth. Century. _Spencer_, “De Legibus Hebraeorum ritualibus,” (On the ritual laws of the Jews), p. 563., however showed at once that the prohibition strictly speaking only went so far as to forbid that harlotry should be practised for the honour of God, as among other Asiatic peoples; and explains the first passage in this sense, that the Jews must not, _as had happened_, dedicate their daughters to the service of Mylitta. [115] _Richter_, XVI. 1.—1 _Kings_, Ch. 3. 16.—_Proverbs_, Ch. 2. 16., Ch. 5. 3., Ch. 7. 10., Ch. 23. 27.—_Amos_, Ch. 2. 7., Ch. 7. 17.—_Baruch_, Ch. 6. 43. Comp. _Grotius_, “Ad Matthaei Evangelium,” (Commentary on St. Matthew), V. 3. 4.—_Hartmann_, “Die Hebräerin am Putztisch und als Braut,” (The Hebrew woman at the Toilette table and as Bride), Amsterdam 1809. Pt. II. pp. 493 sqq. [116] Deipnosoph., bk. XIII. p. 598. v. 65. [117] _Philo_, De special. legg., Works ed. Mangeyn, Vol. II. p. 301. _Clement of Alexandria_, Stromat. III. quotes from _Xanthus_: μίγνυντο δὲ, φήσιν, οἱ Μάγοι μητράσι, καὶ θυγατράσι, καὶ ἀδελφαῖς μίγνυσθαι θεμιτὸν εἶναι, (Now the Magi, he says, used to have intercourse with mothers, and held it lawful to do so with daughters and with sisters). Comp. the same author’s Recognit., bk. IX. ch. 20.—_Sextus Empiricus_, Pyrrh. hypot. bk. III. 24.—_Origen_, Contra Celsum, bk. V. p. 248.—_Jerome_, Contra Jovian. bk. II.—_Cyril_, Adv. Julian. bk. IV.—_Sophocles_, Oedipus Tyrannus 1375 and 452. [118] _Euripides,_ Andromaché, 174. τοιοῦτονῦτον πᾶν τὸ βάρβαρον γένος, πατήρ τε θυγατρὶ, παῖς τε μητρὶ, μίγνυται. (Such is the habit of the whole barbarian race,—father has intercourse with daughter, and son with mother). [119] _Osann_, “De caelibum apud veteres populos conditione,” (On the Status of Bachelors among the Ancient Peoples), Commentat. I. Giessen 1827. 4to.