Deuteronomy 25:8 (WEB)
Then the elders of his city shall call him, and speak to him. If he stands and says, “I don’t want to take her,”
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.