What? know ye not that he which is joined to an
harlot,
&c.] Not in marriage, but in carnal copulation, and unclean
embraces, is one body with her
for two
("saith he", Adam, or Moses, or God, or the Scripture, or as R.
Sol. Jarchi says, the Holy Spirit, ( Genesis 2:24
) )
shall be one flesh;
what is originally said of copulation in lawful marriage, in
which man and wife, legally coupled together, become one flesh,
is applied to the unlawful copulation of a man with an harlot, by
which act they also become one body, one flesh; and which is made
use of by the apostle, to deter the members of Christ from the
commission of this sin, which makes a member of Christ one body
and flesh with an harlot, than which nothing is more monstrous
and detestable. The apostle here directs to the true sense of the
phrase in Genesis, "and they shall be one flesh"; that is, man
and wife shall only have carnal knowledge of, and copulation with
each other. Some Jewish F11 writers interpret this phrase,
(dlwh dum) "on account of
the foetus", which is formed by the means of them both, and which
becomes "their one flesh": others F12, thus as if they were,
or because they are, like as if they were one flesh; but others
F13, in more agreement with the
apostle, think that this has respect (rwbxh la) , "to that conjunction", by which the
fixing of the species is completed; and others F14
expressly thus, "they two shall be one flesh", (dxa rvb Myvwe Mhynvv Mwqml) , "that
is, in the place where both of them make one flesh": which is
equally done by unlawful copulation with an harlot, as with a
man's own wife.