Footnote

b The original Greek word for “sexual appetite” (paʹthos) was used by the first-century historian Josephus to describe the wife of Potiphar, who, because of an “excess of passion [paʹthos],” tried to seduce the youth Joseph; and the man Amnon, who, “burning with desire and goaded by the spur of passion [paʹthos], violated [raped] his sister.” The passion both of Potiphar’s wife and of Amnon was out of control.​—Genesis 39:7-12; 2 Samuel 13:10-14.