Matthew Poole and continuators on Judges 19:24

24 Behold, here is my daughter, a maiden, and his concubine, them I will bring out now , and humble ye them, and do with them what seemeth good unto you: but unto this man do not so vile a thing.

He offers this to avoid a greater and more unnatural Sin, which he thought they designed; but it seems they did not, their abuse being confined to the Woman, and not extended to the Man, who also was in their power, if they had lusted after him. But this offer was Sinful, because he offered that which was not in his, nor in the Mans power to dispose of, even the Chastity of his Daughter, and the Mans Wife; and because no Man must do any evil, though never so small, for the prevention of any evil of Sin or Misery, or for the procuring of the greatest good, Rom. 3. 8. though his Sin was much mitigated by his Ignorance, by his honest and generous Intention of protecting a stranger; by the force which was in some sort put upon him, and by the suddenness and violence of the Temptation.

Marginal references: Hebr. [illegible: 1 word] matter [illegible: 1 word] this folly.