Prostitution vs adultery

[frederick]

The public part means that you are claiming her and taking ownership of her and not just using her. Publicly means that she is afforded the protection due her by your covering. She is granted your protection by virtue of her relationship as your wife. Other men will know that she is not available and that they will be committing adultery if they mess with her.

I'm wondering how you square that with e.g. Isaac taking Rebekah in the account in Genesis 24:64-67? The families knew the situation, but I don't read of anything public(?) Same with Abraham taking Hagar... .

 

[FollowingHim]

It would be very easy for this discussion now to become the hundredth thread saying the same things over again. Let's stick to only what is new and inspired by this passage of scripture.

 

[Mark C]

26) for a prostitute's fee is only a loaf of bread, but the wife of another stalks a man's very life.

I believe that marriage is the process of legally taking a woman publicly as your wife and confirming this agreement with sex.
The legal part means that you have to be doing this in accordance with God's word and with the approval of the legal guardianship of the woman in question, her headship. or if she does not have any then by her herself.

Zec's logical impasse is that he denies the precept of Covenant.

And that is the undeniable difference. When Covenant is confirmed by sexual union both parties know it, and joyfully affirm that fact.

The difference is more than just the fee, as Solomon points out.