the adulterer and the adultresse shall surely be put to death] Both are faulty in the sinne, therefore both must fall by the punishment, which was equall, though the sinne were unequall; for in some respects the man might be the greater sinner, as if he acted the Devils part to tempt the woman; and in this respect the womans sinne might be the greater, because by adultery she might steale in a falle heire to the estate of her husband; and because it was neither lawfull, nor tolerated for one woman to have the use of many men, as it was for a time tolerated for one man to have the use of many women: yet which so ever sinned least deserved death; and there was not so much severitie in inflicting death upon that degree, as mercy in laying no more weight of punishment upon the greater guilt.