Early Church Fathers Scripture Index : Texts

Leviticus 18:18

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Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series 2, Volume 8, page 213, footnote 1 (Image)

Basil: Letters and Select Works

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To Diodorus. (HTML)

CCEL Footnote 2528 (In-Text, Margin)

3. It is written, he says, in Leviticus “Neither shalt thou take a wife to her sister, to vex her, to uncover her nakedness, beside the other in her life time.”[Leviticus 18:18] From this it is plain, he argues, that it is lawful to take her when the wife is dead. To this my first answer shall be, that whatever the law says, it says to those who are under the law; otherwise we shall be subject to circumcision, the sabbath, abstinence from meats. For we certainly must not, when we find anything which falls in with our pleasures, subject ourselves to the yoke of slavery to the law; and ...