Marriage affinity question: or, Marriage with the sister of a deceased wife fully discussed1854 |
Common terms and phrases
ACTUAL FACT adultery affinity alleged argument assertion authority Bible Binney Bishop of Exeter brother brother's wife canon law cantons of Switzerland Christ Christian Church command condemned Confession of Faith consanguinity courts crime daughter deceased wife declared Deut dispensation divine doctrine doubt Dr Chalmers Dr Eadie ecclesiastical evidence father's favour forbidden God's hath Hebrew held Henry VIII husband Israelites Jews judgment Karaites law of incest law of marriage legislation Levitical law Leviticus xviii Libertarians Lord Lord Advocate Lord Denman Maimonides marginal reading marriage moral Moses mother nakedness of thy Old Testament opinion original law parties passage phrase polygamists polygamy principle proof propinquity prove punishment quoted reason referred Reformed regard relations rendering repealed riages rule sanction says Scotland Scripture shalt not uncover statute statute of repeal Synod thing Thou shalt tion uncover the nakedness unlawful unto verse violation wives woman words writer איש
Popular passages
Page 123 - When a man hath taken a wife, and married her, and it come to pass that she find no favour in his eyes, because he hath found some uncleanness in her: then let him write her a bill of divorcement, and give it in her hand, and send her out of his house.
Page 132 - Thus saith the LORD, Behold, I will raise up evil against thee out of thine own house, and I will take thy wives before thine eyes, and give them unto thy neighbour, and he shall lie with thy wives in the sight of this sun. 12 For thou didst it secretly : but I will do this thing before all Israel, and before the sun.
Page 188 - And if a man shall take his brother's wife, it is an unclean thing: he hath uncovered his brother's nakedness; they shall be childless.
Page 55 - Knowing this, that the law is not made for a righteous man, but for the lawless and disobedient...
Page 61 - Defile not ye yourselves in any of these things; for in all these the nations are defiled which I cast out before you. 25 And the land is defiled therefore I do visit the iniquity thereof upon it, and the land itself vomiteth out her inhabitants.
Page 135 - Have mercy upon me, O God, according to thy lovingkindness : according unto the multitude of thy tender mercies blot out my transgressions. Wash me throughly from mine iniquity, and cleanse me from my sin. For I acknowledge my transgressions : and my sin is ever before me.
Page 65 - And the women said unto Naomi, Blessed be the Lord, which hath not left thee this day without a kinsman, that his name may be famous in Israel. And he shall be unto thee a restorer of thy life, and a nourisher of thine old age : for thy daughter in law, which loveth thee, which is better to thee than seven sons, hath born him.
Page 121 - And Adam said, This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh: she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man. Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.
Page 123 - Yet ye say, Wherefore? Because the LORD hath been witness between thee and the wife of thy youth, against whom thou hast dealt treacherously : yet is she thy companion, and the wife of thy covenant.
Page 132 - Thou art the man. Thus saith the Lord God of Israel, I anointed thee king over Israel, and I delivered thee out of the hand of Saul ; and I gave thee thy master's house, and thy master's wives into thy bosom, and gave thee the house of Israel and of Judah ; and if that had been too little, I would moreover have given unto thee such and such things.