Early Church Fathers Scripture Index : Texts

Malachi 2:12

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Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series 2, Volume 6, page 353, footnote 3 (Image)

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CCEL Footnote 4310 (In-Text, Margin)

... dead, she is free to be married to whom she will; only in the Lord,” that is, to a Christian. He who allows second and third marriages in the Lord, forbids first marriages with a Gentile. Whence Abraham also makes his servant swear upon his thigh, that is, on Christ, Who was to spring from his seed, that he would not bring an alien-born as a wife for his son Isaac. And Ezra checked an offence of this kind against God by making his countrymen put away their wives. And the prophet Malachi thus speaks,[Malachi 2:11-12] “Judah hath dealt treacherously, and an abomination is committed in Israel and in Jerusalem; for Judah hath profaned the holiness of the Lord which he loveth, and hath married the daughter of a strange god. The Lord will cut off the man that doeth ...