The wife hath not power of her own body,.... To refrain the use of it from her husband; or to prostitute it to another man:
but the husband; he has the sole power over it, and may require when he pleases the use of it:
and likewise also the husband has not power over his own body: to withhold due benevolence, or the conjugal debt from his wife; or abuse it by self-pollution, fornication, adultery, sodomy, or any acts of uncleanness: but the wife; she only has a power over it, a right to it, and may claim the use of it: this power over each other's bodies is not such, as that they may, by consent, either the husband allow the wife, or the wife the husband, to lie with another.
The wife hath not power of her own body,.... To refrain the use of it from her husband; or to prostitute it to another man:
but the husband; he has the sole power over it, and may require when he pleases the use of it:
and likewise also the husband has not power over his own body: to withhold due benevolence, or the conjugal debt from his wife; or abuse it by self-pollution, fornication, adultery, sodomy, or any acts of uncleanness: but the wife; she only has a power over it, a right to it, and may claim the use of it: this power over each other's bodies is not such, as that they may, by consent, either the husband allow the wife, or the wife the husband, to lie with another.