CRANBERRY writes:

How fitting is Guido Reni’s painting of Joseph fleeing the wife of Potiphar, given the current state of femininity and feminism. Here we have a woman with no mastery of her own desires, no chastity, who attempts to corrupt a young and innocent foreigner to pass an afternoon’s amusement. Her desire turns to rage when he rejects her, and her immediate impulse (again, showing lack of self-control or honesty) is to accuse him of rape.

Things change, but progress does not occur. Now empowered women grasp at the clothes of every passerby, expecting him to do some service or other for her, and when that service is not performed to her demands, cries of oppression and inequality ring throughout the land. It heartens me to know that the Bible is so correct in its observations of human nature, but I am likewise saddened that we have forsaken the ancient wisdom for the pleasures of the land.

Thank you for your blog and your lovely writing.

Laura writes:

Thank you.

False accusations of rape are never acknowledged by feminists. But thousands of years ago, the authors of Genesis recognized that women are not angels.

Reni portrays Potiphar’s wife with great psychological depth. She appears petulant and bored.

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