Author: William Gregg

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2019-03-19

Total Pages: 20

ISBN-13: 9781397358585

Excerpt from Marriage With a Deceased Wife's Sister Prohibited by the Word of God His sister (lev. Xviii a relative by blood. 4. His half-sister (lev. Xviii. 9, and xx. 17) a relative by blood. 5. His son's daughter (lev. Xviii. A relative by blood. 6. His daughter's daughter (lev. Xviii. A relative by blood. 7. His father's sister (lev. Xviii. 12, and xx, a relative by blood. It seems sufficiently evident that the prohibitions in Lev. 18th include probi bitions of Marriage They were so understood by the Jews, and are so understood by Christians generally. The terms used are not, in themselves, applicable merely to unlawful intercourse between persons not married to each other - they are else where used with reference to marriages. Besides, if there be here no prohibition of incestuous marriages, such marriages are nowhere else forbidden, and thus a Jew might marry his nearest relatives without being guilty of incest. Although inter course with them was punished by death, if there was no marriage, yet if the par ties were married no punishment was infiicted It need scarcely be added that the wife whom a man is forbidden to marry means widow. Two men, father and son, or nephew and uncle cannot be supposed to have been married at the same time to the same wife. It is, obviously, the widow of the father and uncle whom the son and nephew are forbidden to marry. This is a common use of the word wife in other parts of Scripture. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.