The Present State of the Jews; Wherein Is Contained an Exact Account of Their Customs, Secular and Religious. to Which Is Annexed a Summary Discourse - Softcover
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1676. Excerpt: ... me a Bill of Divorce, and the Epiltle of putting away, awarding to the Law of the twelve Tribes. This is done before two or more Witnesses, who attest it by subscribing thereunto their N-imcs. CHAP. IX. Of the Jews Concubinage: of their Marrying the Brothers Wife, THose secondary Wives which were of old among the Jews, our English Translation renders Concubines, Gen. 25. 6. And tertuMan (speaking hereof in the first Chapter "of his Book Te uniiNupiis ad Vxorem) astirmsjthat not the Patriarchs alone, but also out Ancestors had a right not only to Marry, but also to use Matrimony variously. And that there were Concubines before the Ljb, we read of the Concubines of Abraham, Nabor, Jacob,&c. And out of Fbilo we are told by 1 Mr. Selden, that the primary wjyes were called 'the just, and the secondary, Concubine. A Learned man of our own Nation (in his Annotations upon the New Testament) seems to incline to another Opinion: for he faith that tfte 31 Wi ©. 75 that the Matrimonial Laws of the Jivos forbad a servant, ot Gentile woman, to become wise to a Je», but that he was called a Concubine. Whether or no this might be so by some new Institute of the Masters, I have no just occasion here 10 enquire: But I am sure the Ægyptian Agar, who was Abraham's Concubine, is called his Wise, Gen. 16.3. And that both she and Ketburab were called both his Wives and Concubines-, but Sarah bore only the name of his Wise. August. Civitat. Dei, v lib. 17. cap. 34.. But grant that the Concubine by (tome late Rabbinick) Matrimonial Laws of the Jems, was not called a Wise, yet (he was far from the ill character of an Harlot nor was Conjugal association with her any more unlawful than Polygamy, which was practised among the Patriarchs,' and is still allowed of by t...
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