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The Creation of Adam, Michelangelo

Genesis 39:9

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Genesis 39:9 (WEB)

No one is greater in this house than I am, and he has not kept back anything from me but you, because you are his wife. How then can I do this great wickedness, and sin against God?”

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Ambrose of Milan

  • “Hear him as he humbles himself: “My lord on my account knoweth not what is in his house, and he hath committed all that he hath to my hand, neither hath he kept back anything from me but thee, because thou art his wife; how, then, can I do this great wickedness, and sin against God?”” — editor's note: Gen. xxxix. 8, 9.

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