Deuteronomy 25:9 (WEB)
then his brother’s wife shall come to him in the presence of the elders, and loose his sandal from off his foot, and spit in his face. She shall answer and say, “So shall it be done to the man who does not build up his brother’s house.”
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.