Forthcoming:  Part 2 of On the Mischance of an Adulterous Wife

Seasons of the Fall and Her Excuses Rejected
 A rebuttal to common excuses made by the adultress who has given what was not hers to give, arguing to be judged with a reduced responsibility and thus receive a lesser punishment, given on various grounds

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When thou vowest a vow unto God, defer not to pay it; for he hath no pleasure in fools: pay that which thou hast vowed.  Better is it that thou shouldest not vow, than that thou shouldest vow and not pay.  Suffer not thy mouth to cause thy flesh to sin; neither say thou before the angel, that it was an error: wherefore should God be angry at thy voice, and destroy the work of thine hands?
(Ecclesiastes 5:4-6)