Joseph sold to a eunuch, desired by his woman, keeps an unwritten law
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Eustathius opens the homily by addressing Joseph directly, describing his sale to a eunuch and the desire of the master's woman for him.
But you were sold to a man who was a eunuch, and you were honored for excelling in conduct.His woman fell in love with your beauty.A divine law had not, I suppose, already been written, saying, “You shall not commit adultery.”From where, then, were you setting out when you preserved an unwritten command of law?You feared your master—a man labeled in name and semblance as the husband of a licentious woman.For how could a eunuch take a woman in the bond of lawful marriage?No, she was clearly living with him and acting as the overseer of his house, and she seemed to guard only the name of guardianship.