{"collection":"chr","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/chr/ecf/008/0080382.htm","path":"chr/ecf/008/0080382.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/chr/ecf/008/0080382.htm","text":"Chapter XV.\u2014The Woman\u2019s Story.\nThen the woman, hearing this welcome promise, began to say: \u201cIt is neither easy of belief, nor do I think it necessary to tell, what is my extraction, or what is my country. It is enough p. 160 only to explain the cause of my grief, why I have rendered my hands powerless by gnawing them. Being born of noble parents, and having become the wife of a suitably powerful man, I had two twin sons, and after them one other. But my husband\u2019s brother was vehemently enflamed with unlawful love towards me; and as I valued chastity above all things, and would neither consent to so great wickedness, nor wished to disclose to my husband the baseness of his brother, I considered whether in any way I could escape unpolluted, and yet not set brother against brother, and so bring the whole race of a noble family into disgrace. I made up my mind, therefore, to leave my country with my two twins, until the incestuous love should subside, which the sight of me was fostering and inflaming; and I thought that our other son should remain to comfort his father to some extent.","title":"Ante-Nicene Fathers, Vol VIII: Pseudo-Clementine Literature.: Chapter XV","type":"page"}