Early Church Fathers Scripture Index : Texts

Leviticus 18:6

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Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series 2, Volume 8, page 213, footnote 5 (Image)

Basil: Letters and Select Works

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To Diodorus. (HTML)

CCEL Footnote 2532 (In-Text, Margin)

4. I, however, maintain that this point has not been left in silence, but that the lawgiver has made a distinct prohibition. The words “None of you shall approach to any one that is near of kin to him, to uncover their nakedness,”[Leviticus 18:6] embraces also this form of kinsmanship, for what could be more akin to a man than his own wife, or rather than his own flesh? “For they are no more twain but one flesh.” So, through the wife, the sister is made akin to the husband. For as he shall not take his wife’s mother, nor yet his wife’s daughter, because he may not take his own mother nor his own daughter, so he may not take ...