And I gave her space to repent of her fornication; and she repented not. 21 我曾给他悔改的机会,他却不肯悔改他的淫行。
Fornication was such a common sin among the Gentiles that it was an accepted practice. 而奸淫在当时的外邦人中是很普遍的罪,而被(会)受。
Rev.2:21 And I gave her time that she might repent, and she is not willing to repent of her fornication. 启二22看哪,我要叫她卧病在床,那些与她行淫的人,若不为她所行的悔改,我也要叫他们受大患难。
fornication
[ noun ]
voluntary sexual intercourse between persons not married to each other
<noun.act>
extramarital sex that willfully and maliciously interferes with marriage relations
<noun.act> adultery is often cited as grounds for divorce
Fornication \For`ni*ca"tion\, n. [F. fornication, L. fornicatio.] 1. Unlawful sexual intercourse on the part of an unmarried person; the act of such illicit sexual intercourse between a man and a woman as does not by law amount to adultery.
Note: In England, the offense, though cognizable in the ecclesiastical courts, was not at common law subject to secular prosecution. In the United States it is indictable in some States at common law, in others only by statute. --Whartyon.