Deuteronomy 25:5 (WEB)
If brothers dwell together, and one of them dies and has no son, the wife of the dead shall not be married outside to a stranger. Her husband’s brother shall go in to her, and take her as his wife, and perform the duty of a husband’s brother to her.
Fathers and councils · 11
Catena Aurea on Luke
- Ambrose of MilanCatena Aurea on Luke
“(Deut. 25:5.)” — the author cites it
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John Damascene
“One ought also to observe this, that the law was that when a man died without seed, this man’s brother should take to wife the wife of the dead man and raise up seed to his brother.” — editor's note: Deut. xxv. 5.
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Eusebius of Caesarea
“…to nature by the succession of legitimate offspring, and according to law whenever another raised up a child to the name of a brother dying childless; for because a clear hope of resurrection was not yet given they had a representation of the future promise by a kind of mortal resurrection, in order that the…” — editor's note: The law is stated in Deut. xxv. 5 sq.
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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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John Chrysostom
“The wife of him that died childless was to be given to his brother.” — editor's note: Deut. xxv. 5.
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Tertullian
“If, then, forasmuch as there is in the law a precept that a man is to take in marriage the wife of his brother if he have died without children, for the purpose of raising up seed to his brother; and this may happen repeatedly to the same person, according to that crafty question of the Sadducees; men…” — editor's note: Deut. xxv. 5, 6.
Read the whole comment“…childless, when it even prescribed such a marriage, in order that by his own brother, and from his own wife, seed might be reckoned to the deceased husband), and was in consequence cast into prison, and finally, by the same Herod, was even put to death.” — editor's note: Deut. xxv. 5, 6.
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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
Read the whole comment“For kinsmen used to marry the wives of their next of kin, who died without children, to raise up seed to him that was deceased.” — editor's note: Deut. xxv. 5; Matt. xxii. 24.
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Gregory the Great
“Hence Moses says (Deut. xxv. 5) that a surviving brother shall take to him the wife of a brother who has died without children, and beget children to the name of his brother; and…” — the author cites it
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Cross-references · 22
Cited together with
Cited together in Church History I.7.
Cited together in Church History I.7.
Cited together in The Book of Pastoral Rule I.6.
Cited together in On the Good of Marriage Chapter 27.
Cited together in The Book of Pastoral Rule I.6.
Cited together in Church History I.7.
Cited together in Ambrose of Milan on Luke 3:23–38 (2) (Catena Aurea) and 1 other place.
Cited together in Church History I.7.
Cited together in The Book of Pastoral Rule I.6.
Cited together in The Book of Pastoral Rule I.6.
Cited together in Church History I.7.
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 The Book of Pastoral Rule I.6.
Cited together in On the Good of Marriage Chapter 27.
Cited together in On the Good of Marriage Chapter 27.
Cited together in Church History I.7.
Cited together in Church History I.7.
Cited together in Church History I.7.
Cited together in Church History I.7.
Parallel passages
Genesis 38:8 and Deuteronomy 25:5 share the same wording (11 words).
