Who was ever known to have the hardihood, in the heart of a city and at high noon, to mark figures of filthy swine upon a royal statue?  He who has set at naught a marriage of man, with no mercy shewn him, in the presence of two or three witnesses, dies. i.e. by the old Jewish law.  Deut. xvii. 6.  Adultery was not capital under the Lex Julia, but was made so by Constantine.  Of how much sorer punishment, suppose you, shall he be thought worthy who hath trodden under foot the Son of God, and defiled His pledged bride and done despite unto the spirit of virginity? cf. Heb. x. 29.  But the woman, he urges, consented, and I did no violence to her against her will.  So, that unchaste lady of Egypt raged with love for comely Joseph, but the chaste youth’s virtue was not overcome by the frenzy of the wicked woman, and, even when she laid her hand upon him, he was not forced into iniquity.  But still, he urges, this was no new thing in her case; she was no longer a maid; if I had been unwilling, she would have been corrupted by some one else.  Yes; and it is written, the Son of Man was ordained to be betrayed, but woe unto that man by whom He was betrayed. cf. Mark xiv. 21.  It must needs be that offences come, but woe to that man by whom they come. cf. Matt. xviii. 7.