Remarks on the Law Regarding Marriage with the Sister of a Deceased Wife

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W. Benning, 1845 - 28 strán (strany)

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Strana 11 - If brethren dwell together, and one of them die, and have no child, the wife of the dead shall not marry without unto a stranger: her husband's brother shall go in unto her, and take her to him to wife, and perform the duty of an husband's brother unto her.
Strana 15 - And that no reservation or prohibition, God's law except, shall trouble or impeach any marriage without the Levitical degrees.
Strana 10 - Neither shalt thou take a wife to her sister, to vex her, to uncover her nakedness, beside the other in her life time.
Strana 22 - For the poor victim herself, not yet immolated, while yet balancing upon the pivot of her destiny, your heart could not be cold, nor your tongue be wordless. You would have said to him, Pause, my lord, while there is yet a moment for reflection. What are your motives, what your views, what your prospects from what you are about to do ? You are a married man, the husband of the most amiable and respectable of women ; you cannot look to the chance of marrying this wretched fugitive. Between you and...
Strana 11 - As for the allegations" from the Levitical law, if any one brings them forward in sincerity, he should be prepared to advocate adherence to it in all points alike; among others, the compulsory marriage of a brother with his deceased brother's widow.
Strana 10 - Thou shalt not marry two sisters at the same time, as Jacob did Rachel and Leah ; but there is nothing in this law that rendered it illegal to marry a sister-in-law when her sister was dead...
Strana 10 - ... marriage of two sisters at the same time is here prohibited; and Grotius justly observes, that as the feuds and animosities of brothers are, of all others, the most keen ; so are, generally, the jealousies and emulations between sisters. Therefore, the historian used the strong expression to vex her : but though a man might not marry two sisters together, it seems a natural conclusion, from the phrase in her life time, that he might marry the sister of his deceased wife: and thus, we learn from...
Strana 18 - America than second marriages with a wife's sister ; and so far from being doubtful as to their moral tendency, they are among us deemed the very best sort of marriages. In my whole life, I never heard the slightest suggestion against them, founded on moral or domestic considerations.
Strana 11 - This perhaps is a knot not easily untied, how the Levitical degrees are God's law in this kingdom, but not as they were in the commonwealth of Israel, where first given.
Strana 11 - Levitical degrees, absolutely to marry his wife's sister ; but within the meaning of Leviticus and the constant practice of the commonwealth of the Jews, a man was prohibited not to marry his wife's sister, only during her life ; after, he might ; so the text is...

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