Deuteronomy 20:7

“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.

“Elsewhere also, “And what man is there that hath betrothed a wife, and hath not taken her? let him go and return unto his house, lest he die in the battle, and another man take her.”” — editor's note: Deut. xx. 7.

“…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.