Early Church Fathers Scripture Index : Texts

Judges 11:31

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Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series 2, Volume 6, page 363, footnote 3 (Image)

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CCEL Footnote 4393 (In-Text, Margin)

... and the wife of Heber the Kenite, I am at a loss to understand. For it is one thing to draw up a list of military commanders in historical sequence, another to indicate certain figures of marriage which cannot be found in them. And whereas he prefers the fidelity of the father Jephthah to the tears of the virgin daughter, that makes for us. For we are not commending virgins of the world so much as those who are virgins for Christ’s sake, and most Hebrews blame the father for the rash vow he made,[Judges 11:30-31] “If thou wilt indeed deliver the children of Ammon into mine hand, then it shall be, that whatsoever cometh forth of the doors of my house to meet me, when I return in peace from the children of Ammon, it shall be for the Lord’s, and I will offer it ...