We are certainly not “eisegetically” importing anything into such passages if we find total spiritual impotence expressed in them.

Each chapel had its saintly shrine, hung around with offerings; its picture above the altar, although closely veiled, if by any painter of renown; and its hallowed tapers, burning continually, to set alight the devotion of the worshippers.

They jointly raised the child, even though they were no longer married.

Superſtition is the less complainable