Love your neighbour as thyself ; if any one of these are without sin , let them cast the first stone ; that too was said by jesus when the men were about to stone the adulteress .
If a man lie with another man 's wife , they shall both die , that is to say , the adulterer and the adulteress : and thou shalt take away the evil out of israel .
Hester , an adulteress , is cast off in the marginal place of the patriarchal society , but hawthorne purposely put her in the center of his story , endowing her with a position of subjectivity .
海丝特,作为一个通奸的罪者,被抛在社会的边缘,可是霍桑在其作品中把她放在中心位置,赋予她主体地位。
Saint john the baptist was rather vocal at the time about the bigamous marriage of herodias and herod antipas and it raised the ire of the adulteress to a point where she would not be happy until she saw him slaughtered .