Deuteronomy 25:10 (WEB)
His name shall be called in Israel, “The house of him who had his sandal removed.”
Fathers and councils · 4
Ambrose of Milan
“…she gleaned, was yet not taken of Boaz to wife, until she had first loosed the shoe from [the foot of] him whose wife she ought, by the Law, to have become.” — editor's note: Deut. xxv. 5–10; Ruth iv. 5–7.
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Catena Aurea on Matthew
- JeromeCatena Aurea on Matthew
“Here his humility, there his ministry is intended; Christ is the Bridegroom, and John is not worthy to loose the Bridegroom’s shoe, that his house be not called according to the Law of Moses and the example of Ruth, “The house of him that hath his shoe loosed.” [Deut 25:10]” — the author cites it
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Augustine of Hippo
“Therefore at that time, when the Law also, following upon the days of the Patriarchs, pronounced accursed, whoso raised not up seed in Israel, even he, who could, put it not forth, but yet possessed it.” — editor's note: Deut. xxv. 5, 10
Read the whole comment“In order therefore for the propagation of that people, he was accounted accursed by sentence of the Law, whoso raised not up seed in Israel.” — editor's note: Deut. xxv. 5–10
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Cross-references · 8
Cited together in Jerome on Matthew 3:11–12 (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Jerome on Matthew 3:11–12 (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in On the Good of Marriage Chapter 27.
Cited together in On the Good of Marriage Chapter 27.
Cited together in On the Good of Widowhood Chapter 10.
Cited together in On the Good of Marriage Chapter 27.
Cited together in On the Good of Marriage Chapter 27.
Cited together in On the Good of Marriage Chapter 27.