| Andrew Alexander Bonar - Bible - 1851 - 528 pages
...daughter, to uncover her nakedness, for they are her Dear kinswomen : it is wickedness. Neither shall thou take a wife to her sister, to vex her, to uncover her nakedness, besides the other in her lifetime.' It appears that God is anxious to draw men into as many relationships... | |
| Samuel Greatheed, Daniel Parken, Theophilus Williams, Josiah Conder, Thomas Price, Jonathan Edwards Ryland, Edwin Paxton Hood - English literature - 1851 - 880 pages
...and the reading of the celebrated passage, Lev. xviii. 18, will be free from all difficulty, — ' Neither shalt thou take a wife to her sister, to vex her, beside the other in her lifetime,' Here, then, strictly speaking, we enter upon the consideration of... | |
| 442 pages
...certainly not for a professional one. The passage referred to was of course (for there is no other,) " Neither shalt thou take a wife to her sister, to vex...her nakedness, beside the other in her life time. [Or, one wife to another '.] Levit. xviii., 18. The whole body of commentators, ancient and modern,... | |
| Edmund Burke - History - 1852 - 1102 pages
...from Dr. Milner, the Professor of Hebrew at Cambridge. The verse which in our translation stands, " Neither shalt thou take a wife to her sister, to vex...to uncover her nakedness, beside the other in her lifetime " — when literally rendered is, "A woman unto sister thou shalt not take, to uncover nakedness,... | |
| Books - 1852 - 914 pages
...Milner, the Professor of Hebrew at Cambridge. The verse which in our translation stands, " Neither slialt thou take a wife to her sister, to vex her, to uncover her nakedness, beside the other in her lifetime " — when literally rendered is, "A woman unto sister thou shall not take, to uncover nakedness,... | |
| History - 1852 - 916 pages
...Milner, the Professor of Hebrew at Cambridge. The verse which in our translation stands, " Neither shall thou take a wife to her sister, to vex her, to uncover her nakedness, beside the other in her lifetime " — when literally rendered is, "A woman unto sister thou shalt not take, to uncover nakedness,... | |
| John Fletcher - Slavery - 1852 - 650 pages
...striving to make a parallel between slavery and polygamy, pretend they have done so in Lev. xviii. 18 : " Neither shalt thou take a wife to her sister to vex her, to uncover her nakedness, besides the other in her lifetime." These advocates interpret this law to permit a man to marry two... | |
| John Fletcher - Slavery - 1852 - 676 pages
...striving to make a parallel between slavery and polygamy, pretend they have done so in Lev. xviii. 18 : "Neither shalt thou take a wife to her sister to vex her, to uncover her nakedness, besides the other in her lifetime." These advocates interpret this law to permit a man to marry two... | |
| John Fletcher - History - 1852 - 666 pages
...striving to make a parallel between slavery and polygamy, pretend they have done so in Lev. xviii. 18 : "Neither shalt thou take a wife to her sister to vex her, to uncover her nakedness, besides the other in her lifetime." These advocates interpret this law to permit a man to marry two... | |
| Herbert Thorndike - Theology - 1852 - 506 pages
...exception is made to it by Him that made it. So that, when it follows (Levit. xviii. 18), " Thou shalt not take a wife to her sister to vex her, to uncover her nakedness, beside her in her life-time;" it is observed P, 139 that, in the Hebrew, to " take a wife to her sister" is... | |
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