[98] “Diss. exhibens novum ad historiam luis venereae additamentum,” (Dissertation containing New Material towards a History of the Venereal Disease). Jena 1797. 32mo., p. 8.
[99] The quotations from the Bible are given by Dr. Rosenbaum according to the German translation of _de Wette_, “Die Heilige Schrift, übersetzt von Dr. de Wette,” (The Holy Scriptures, translated by Dr. de Wett, 2nd. edition. Heidelberg 1835. large 8vo.
[100] “Neither let us commit fornication, as some of them committed, and fell in one day three and twenty thousand.” _St. Paul_, 1st. Epistle to Corinthians, Ch. 10. v. 8. μέμνησθε γὰρ τὰς τέσσαρας καὶ εἴκοσι χιλιάδας _δὶα πορνείαν_ ἀπωσμένας, (for remember the four and twenty thousand that were rejected for fornication).
[102] Ch. 2. v. 14. Comp. _Areth._ Commentar. in Apocalips. ch. 2. _Isidor._ Pel. bk. III. ep. 150. _Suidas_ under word προφητεία, (prophecy).
[103] “Vita Mosis,” (Life of Moses), Works Vol. II. p. 217.
[104] Factis per mulierum obscenam libidinem et protervam petulantiam quae corpora consuescentium stupro debilitarent, animosque impietate profligarent. ibid. p. 129. (Practices that originating in the foul lustfulness and provocative wantonness of the women weakened the bodies of those consorting with them, and leading them into impiety destroyed their minds).
[105] Antiquit. Judaic. bk. IV. ch. 6. §§ 6-13.
[106] Ἀπόλλυνται μὲν οὖν καὶ ὑπὸ τῆς τούτων ἀνδραγαθίας πολλοὶ τῶν παρανομησάντων, ἐφθάρησαν δὲ πάντες καὶ λοιμῷ, ταύτην ἐνσκήψαντος αὐτοῖς τοῦ Θεοῦ τὴν νόσον· ὅσοι τε συγγενεῖς ὄντες, κωλύειν δέον, ἐξώτρυνον αὐτοὺς ἐπὶ ταῦτα, συναδικεῖν τῷ Θεῷ δοκοῦντες, ἀπέθνησκον.
[107] Yet this would appear to have been no serious loss, for the disease was quite able indeed to weaken the power of the Jews, but not to actually destroy it. So Balaam says in _Josephus_ (loco cit. § 6.): Hebraeorum quidem genus nunquam funditus peribit, nec bello, nec _peste_, nec inopia terrae fructuum, nec alio casu inopinato delebitur.—In mala autem nonnulla et calamitates ad breve tempus incident; a quibus licet deprimi humique affligi videantur, postea tamen reflorescent, cum eos timere coeperint qui damna illis intulerant. (The nation of the Hebrews in fact will never utterly perish, and can be destroyed neither by war, nor _plague_, nor famine of the fruits of the earth, nor any other unlooked for disaster.—They will fall however for a brief space into sundry ills and calamities; whereby they may well seem to be broken down and brought to the earth. But they will flourish again, when once they have learned to fear the enemies that brought the disasters upon them). It was in order to bring about this consummation that Balaam gave his advice just cited.