Deuteronomy 25:7 (WEB)
If the man doesn’t want to take his brother’s wife, then his brother’s wife shall go up to the gate to the elders, and say, “My husband’s brother refuses to raise up to his brother a name in Israel. He will not perform the duty of a husband’s brother to me.”
Fathers and councils · 2
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
“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 · 1
Cited together in On the Good of Widowhood Chapter 10.