So he promised with an oath to give her whatever she might ask.

When Herodias’s own daughter came in and danced, she pleased Herod and his guests. The king said to the girl, “Ask me whatever you want, and I’ll give it to you.”

Therefore I considered it necessary to urge the brothers to go on ahead to you and arrange in advance the generous gift you promised, so that it will be ready as a gift and not as an extortion.

and will therefore receive condemnation because they have renounced their original pledge.

They promise them freedom, but they themselves are slaves of corruption, since people are enslaved to whatever defeats them.