Note 114 — FIRST SECTION.

Leviticus, Ch. 19. v. 19.—Deuteronomy, Ch. 23. v. 17.; this latter passage Beer (loco citato) would fain utilise to free the Jews from the suspicion of having disseminated the Venereal disease in the XVth. Century. Spencer, “De Legibus Hebraeorum ritualibus,” (On the ritual laws of the Jews), p. 563., however showed at once that the prohibition strictly speaking only went so far as to forbid that harlotry should be practised for the honour of God, as among other Asiatic peoples; and explains the first passage in this sense, that the Jews must not, as had happened, dedicate their daughters to the service of Mylitta.