prophane his seed] Making them unfit for the holy Priesthood, by marrying any unchast, or defamed woman; that upholding the holinesse, and purity of his Priesthood, he may breed the more reverence in the people, to the religion and worship, wherein he was a principall and most eminent agent: and therefore he was not to marry a woman eitheir corrupted by whoredom, or defamed by report; no, nor an honest widow, (but a virgin only) unlesse her deceased husband were a Priest, Ezekiel 44:22. nor a woman divorced for what cause soever.