Somehow I think Philip didn't want to sleep in his wife's bed because he saw a snake there, but made an excuse so he wouldn't look weak.
"I'm not sleeping in that bed with her! There was a snake in there."
"A snake? You could just kill it.'
"It was a DIVINE snake! I'm refusing to sleep with her because our child will be conceived divinely, rather than by human means."
"I'm not sleeping in that bed with her! There was a snake in there."
"A snake? You could just kill it.'
"It was a DIVINE snake! I'm refusing to sleep with her because our child will be conceived divinely, rather than by human means."
The whole tone of Church teaching in regard to woman is, to the last degree, contemptuous and degrading. - Elizabeth Cady Stanton