Early Church Fathers Scripture Index : Texts

Leviticus 21:3

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Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series 2, Volume 6, page 361, footnote 11 (Image)

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CCEL Footnote 4368 (In-Text, Margin)

... to consider the words “if only the young men have kept themselves from women.” The truth is that, in view of the purity of the body of Christ, all sexual intercourse is unclean. In the law also it is enjoined that the high priest must not marry any but a virgin, nor must he take to wife a widow. If a virgin and a widow are on the same level, how is it that one is taken, the other rejected? And the widow of a priest is bidden abide in the house of her father, and not to contract a second marriage.[Leviticus 21:3] If the sister of a priest dies in virginity, just as the priest is commanded to go to the funeral of his father and mother, so must he go to hers. But if she be married, she is despised as though she belonged not to him. He who has married a wife, ...