 | 1853 - 636 pages
...the unlearned reader may judge which is the best interpretation. The words in our translation are, ' Neither shalt thou take a wife to her ' sister to vex her .... besides the other in her lifetime? Now we are told that a wife to her sister might be rendered,... | |
 | 1809 - 1150 pages
...daughter's daughter, to uncover her nakedness ; for they are her near kinswomen : it is wickedness. 18 e be to you, fear not : your God, and the God of'your fa! to uncover her nakedness beside the other in her life-ft'/we. 19 <TAlso thou shalt not approach unta... | |
 | Religion - 1811 - 706 pages
...this inquiry, is taken from a precept in the law of marriage itself. " Neither," says the lawgiver, " shalt thou take a •wife to her sister, to vex her, beside the other, in her life-time.*' Lev. xviii. 18. From which it is inferred, that if she be dead, it is lawful to marry her sister. '... | |
 | New Church gen. confer - 1855 - 590 pages
...which has relation to the question now occupying so much attention, is contained in verse 18th: — "Neither shalt thou take a wife to her sister to vex her, beside the other in her lifetime." This evidently means, that although the Jew was permitted to have two wives at the same time, yet he... | |
 | John Henry Livingston - Church discipline - 1816 - 192 pages
...men of cultivated minds ought to be ashamed. IV. A fourth objection is raised from Levit. 18. 18. " neither shalt thou take a wife to her sister to vex her, to uncover her nakedness, beside the other, in her life time." From this precept it is inferred : "... | |
 | 1818 - 948 pages
...daughter's daughter, to uncover her nakrJness ; Jor they are her near kinswonien : it /.• wickedness. 18 ray thyself with glory and beauty. 11 Cast abroad the fag to uncover her nakedness besides theother in her life-Jim«. 19 IT Also thou shalt not approach unto... | |
 | 1840 - 772 pages
...the law, as with the interpretation of the Levitical prohihitions. In Levit, xviii. 18, we read — " Neither shalt thou take a wife to her sister, to vex her, to uncover her nakedness, hesides the other in her life-time." — Lev. xviii. 18. Upon this Dr. Dodd's... | |
 | 1842 - 982 pages
...are honoured and blessed by God. About two centuries afterwards, the divine legislator enjoined, " Neither shalt thou take a wife to her sister to vex her, to uncover her nakedness beside the other in her lifetime." Lev. iv. 18. It is submitted that here... | |
 | John Milton - Dogma - 1825 - 794 pages
...lawful marriage. Another text from which the unlawfulness of polygamy is maintained, is Lev. xviii. 18. neither shalt thou take a wife to her sister, to vex her, to uncover her nakedness, beside the other in her life time. Here Junius translates the passage mulierem... | |
 | 1827 - 600 pages
...drawn from the 19th verse of the same xviiith chapter, and is thus proposed. " Since a man may not take a wife to her sister to vex her beside the other in her life time, it seems to be implied that he may marry the sister of his wife after her death." But let... | |
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Neither shalt thou take a wife to her sister, to vex her, to uncover her nakedness, beside the other in her life time. 
