Poul B skrev:
> Men det er alligevel tæt på, idet "hver gang han gik ind til sin brors
> kone, lod han sin sæd gå til spilde på jorden for ikke at skaffe sin bror
> afkom." (1. Mosebog, kapitel 38, vers 9) Det er dette spild af sæd, som er
> vigtig i dette tilfælde, og som i gammeltestamentelig forstand er en ganske
> alvorlig sag.
Det er et spørgsmål om fortolkning. F.eks. Oxford English Dictionary:
Onan, son of Judah, was ordered by his father to beget children with
the wife of his brother who had died childless. He did not wish to
beget children who would not belong to him, so he did not complete
copulation but let his semen fall on the ground, for which God
punished him with death. Although Onan's sin is taken by modern
biblical scholars to have been failure to fulfil the obligation of
levirate marriage (see Oxf. Compan. Bible (1993) at cited word),
this passage has frequently been taken in the Christian (as in the
Jewish) tradition to show divine condemnation of masturbation.
> Ved (mandlig) onani går der også sæd til spilde, og den historiske
> brug af ordet dækker da også både afbrudt samleje og mandlig (men ikke
> kvindelig) masturbation. (Wikipedia)
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Peter