[But] whoso committeth adultery with a woman,.... Which is a greater degree of theft than the former, it being the stealing of another man's wife;lacketh understanding; or "an heart" ; the thief lacks bread, and therefore steals, but this man lacks wisdom, and therefore acts so foolish a part; the one does it to satisfy hunger, the other a brutish lust;he [that] doeth it destroyeth his own soul; is liable to have his life taken away by the husband of the adulteress; so according to Solon's law the adulterer taken in the act might be killed by the husband: or by the civil magistrate; for according to the law of.
Moses he was to die, either to be strangled or stoned, See Gill on "Joh 8:5"; and besides, he not only ruins the natural faculties of his soul, besotting, corrupting, and depraving that, giving his heart to a whore, but brings eternal destruction on it; yet so foolish is he, though it issues in the ruin of his precious soul; "he does this" , for so the first part of this clause, which stands last in the original text, may be rendered.
bl rox "deficit corde", Pagninus, Montanus; "caret corde", Mercerus, Gejerus; so Michaelis. Plutarch. in Vita Solon. p. 90.