Speaking of his sexual sin in the Testament of the Twelve Patriarchs, Reuben blames women for being too enticing:
“For women are evil, my children, and by reason of their lacking authority or power over man, they scheme treacherously how they might entice him to themselves by means of their looks.” He has this on heavenly authority: “An angel of the Lord told me and instructed me that women are more easily overcome by the spirit of promiscuity than are men.” Women assault male sight, and so it’s good to “flee from sexual promiscuity, and order your wives and your daughters not to adorn their heads and their appearances so as to deceive men’s sound minds,” and above all to “protect your senses from women.”
Jesus, by contrast, sees the man gazing at the woman as the aggressor.
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