maidservant of his wife, because he fathered a child by Hagar, would be corrected—chastised not just with rods but even with clubs, so that he would not meet with eternal punishment along with other adulterers. Those things in school were minor matters; these, however, are serious ones, and we did not draw a comparison from them in order to set an anomalous expression on a par with a sacrament or a solecism on a par with adultery. Given, nonetheless, the distance between the two sorts of actions,