Genesis 24:37 (WEB)
My master made me swear, saying, ‘You shall not take a wife for my son from the daughters of the Canaanites, in whose land I live,
Fathers and councils · 1
“But no one learns, unless he has had experience, how difficult it is both to get rid of a habit of swearing, and never to do rashly what necessity sometimes compels him to do.” — editor's note: Augustin is somewhat perplexed about the meaning, but decides the injunction to be directed against the abuse of the oath, not to forbid it wholly. The oath…
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Cited together in On the Sermon on the Mount I.17.
Cited together in On the Sermon on the Mount I.17.
Cited together in On the Sermon on the Mount I.17.
Cited together in On the Sermon on the Mount I.17.
Cited together in On the Sermon on the Mount I.17.
Cited together in On the Sermon on the Mount I.17.
Cited together in On the Sermon on the Mount I.17.
Cited together in On the Sermon on the Mount I.17.
Cited together in On the Sermon on the Mount I.17.
Cited together in On the Sermon on the Mount I.17.
Cited together in On the Sermon on the Mount I.17.
Cited together in On the Sermon on the Mount I.17.