Romans 1:26
For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature:
For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections,.... Because of their idolatrous practices, God left them to very dishonourable actions, sodomitical ones, both among the men and women:
for even the women did change the natural use into that which is against nature; either by prostituting themselves to, and complying with the "sodomitical" embraces of men, in a way that is against nature {h}; or by making use of such ways and methods with themselves, or other women, to gratify their lusts, which were never designed by nature for such an use: of these vicious women, and their practices, Seneca {i} speaks, when he says,
"libidine veto nec maribus quidem cedunt, pati natae; Dii illas Deoeque, male perdant; adeo perversum commentae, genus impudicitiae, viros ineunt:''
also Clemens Alexandrinus {k} has respect to such, saying,
"gunaikev andrizontai para fusin, gamou men ai te kai
gamousai gunaikev.'
and such there were among the Jews, whom they call wzb wz twllwomx
Myvn {l}, and whom the priests were forbidden to marry.
{h} Vid. R. Sol Jarchi in Gen. xxiv. 16.
{i} Epist. 95.
{k} Paedagog. l. 3. p. 226.
{l} T. Bab. Sabbat, fol. 65. 2. Piske Tosaph. ib. artic. 266. Yevamot, fol. 76. 1. & Piske Tosaph. ib. art. 141. Maimonides in Misn. Sanhedrin, c. 7. sect. 4. & Hilchot Issure Bia, c. 21. sect. 8, 9.