Thank you Em, as always. Glad you enjoyed it :)

Hahaha it's ok, I can see how that interpretation may have come about I guess, but it is very far from the mark.

In my mind it was about a poor man falling in love with a wealthy woman. He imagined her to be pure and never questioned what she asked him to do, even if it were murder. He did all he could, believing it was pleasing her and leading her to love him back. All the while, she had his heart in one palm and strings in the other. After coming to realise this, he confronts her and asks her to bare witness to what he voluntarily did in her name, for her love and not her wealth.

She argues back to shift the blame on to him for agreeing to commit to her requests, so he replies back with "Be as inconceivable as you may, but know your shame". "For you is an abode built in honor from the shamelessness of a man" is pretty much him chastising himself for being so blinded by what he now realises was lust and not love, that he paid no mind to the shameless things he did that were all for her benefit.

Religion did play a small part though, but only in his feeling of guilt at the end:
Equity: what he thought they would have
Enmity: what was planted in him
Ecstasy: what she gave him as incentive
Apathy: how he felt toward everything except her
Animosity: the feeling he developed over time
Envy: what he felt when he would see her with others
Apostasy: what he felt he committed after looking back at all of the above.

The rest is pretty straight forward :)

Thanks :)