Literatura del Segundo Templo sobre Deuteronómio 23:17

§§ 37–38. Philo may also be bearing in mind Deut. 23:17, where ὁ πορνεύων (E. V. “sodomite”) is coupled with πόρνη as forbidden in Israel. πορνεύων and πόρνος seem regularly to mean a male prostitute rather than as in Heb. 12:16 simply a fornicator. Though no punishment is prescribed in Deut., the fact that Philo seems to base the stoning of the πόρνη on this verse (see on § 81) shews that he would feel the same about the πόρνος.

[224] For the man who bears the name of this place, Shechem, being son of Hamor, that is of an irrational being—for “Hamor” means “ass”—practising folly and nursed in shamelessness and effrontery, essayed—foul wretch that he was—to corrupt and defile the judgement faculties of the understanding. But the hearers and pupils of sound sense, Symeon and Levi, were too quick for him. They made secure their own quarters and went forth against them in safety, and overthrew them when still occupied in the pleasure-loving, passion-loving, toil of the uncircumcised: for albeit there was a Divine decree that “of the daughters of Israel, the seeing one, none might ever become a harlot” (Deut. 23:17), these men hoped to carry off unobserved the virgin soul (Gen. 34).