Deuteronomy 20:6 (WEB)
What man is there who has planted a vineyard, and has not used its fruit? Let him go and return to his house, lest he die in the battle, and another man use its fruit.
Fathers and councils · 2
Jerome
“He who hasmarried a wife, and he who has planted a vineyard, an image of the propagation of children, is forbidden to go to the battle.” — editor's note: Deut. xx. 6, 7, where an indulgence, not a prohibition, is clearly indicated.
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Clement of Alexandria
“…and has not previously inhabited it; or cultivated a newly-planted vine, and not yet partaken of the fruit; or betrothed a virgin, and not yet married her;”—such the humane law orders to be relieved from military service: from military reasons in the first place, lest, bent on their desires, they turn out sluggish…” — editor's note: “These words are more like Philo Judæus, i. 740, than those of Moses, Deut. xx. 5–7.”—Potter.
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