Deuteronomy 25:6 (WEB)
It shall be that the firstborn whom she bears shall succeed in the name of his brother who is dead, that his name not be blotted out of Israel.
Fathers and councils · 5
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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Augustine of Hippo
“And even if we were born from the brother of Him that is dead, yet are we named after the name of Him who is dead.” — editor's note: Deut. xxv. 6.
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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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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Cross-references · 1
Cited together in On the Good of Widowhood Chapter 10.