Early Church Fathers Scripture Index : Texts
Judges 19:1
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Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series 2, Volume 10, page 85, footnote 11 (Image)
Ambrose: Select Works and Letters
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Chapter XIX. The crime committed by the inhabitants of Gibeah against the wife of a certain Levite is related, and from the vengeance taken it is inferred how the idea of virtue must have filled the heart of those people of old. (HTML)
111. How full of pitiful traits is this story! A man, it says,[Judges 19:1-3] a Levite, had taken to himself a wife, who I suppose was called a concubine from the word “concubitus.” She some time afterwards, as is wont to happen, offended at certain things, betook herself to her father, and was with him four months. Then her husband arose and went to the house of his father-in-law, to reconcile himself with his wife, to win her back and take her home again. The woman ran to meet him and brought her husband into her father’s house.