This Commandment bothered me.
“What does it mean!?” I screamed.
Here is my path. Last week, I read an Article on Adultery in Ancient Athens. Read this Article.
Then — as the Universe Timed it — today, I looked up the Etymology of “Sophisticate” when I noticed the “Sophi” in the word, which means “Pure,” and that is when I found this :
late Middle English (as an adjective in the sense ‘adulterated’, and as a verb in the sense ‘mix with a foreign substance’): from medieval Latin sophisticatus ‘tampered with’, past participle of the verb sophisticare, from sophisticus ‘sophistic’. The shift of sense probably occurred first in the adjective unsophisticated, from ‘uncorrupted’ via ‘innocent’ to ‘inexperienced, uncultured’. The noun dates from the early 20th century.
*Sigh*
I hate King James. I could go back in time and punch him in the face. Adultery is about Racial Purity and Racism.
In short, what King James did to the world — in collaboration or under the order of John Filmer — resulted in a Societal Virus that spread through the Mind, which we all are feeling today.
To him I say, “Ouch!”
“Adultery” meant “Do not mix with different Races/Religions.”
Which explains the entire tone of the Bible. Samson and Delilah comes to mind as well as Solomon and Sheba. Its precise definition is “Do not mix with foreign substance” and, in Ancient Athens, was punishable by death. It was about Racial Purity.
Later, it was used for Sexual Enslavement within Marriage and Monogamy was dragged into it.
I do a lot of Psychological work on Monogamy and Polyamory of which I will not get into here.