Inhaltsangabe
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1883 edition. Excerpt: ... in the full and usual sense of that word. The first of these is necessarily concluded because the exception is made of the former wife's life-period, not at all upon the ground of bigamy being involved, but exclusively for another reason assigned. The second of them, because, if they had been incestuous, the reason for the restraint would not have terminated with the lifetime of the preceding wife, but would have continued to operate as forcibly after her decease as previously to it. The remaining one, because, if plural wives were allowed to the Jews, and marriage with two or more sisters is not in itself incestuous, such co-existent marriages would have been nothing more than infringements of an edict having for its final cause the protection of a wife from discomfort. They would not have drawn with them infringement of an edict issuing from the much graver considerations of adultery or incest. This being so, they could not have been set forth, with truth, as constituting serious moral offences; certainly not, as crimes of grave moral turpitude. It is important to our argument that these positions, which the advocates of the marriages may be constrained to hold and to acknowledge, should be borne in memory. It is important, because we contend that the expression about uncovering nakedness did, and does, imply serious moral offence, even grave moral turpitude; and that it would have had no place here in the wording of the law but in view of such. We think that it can be shown that in the Scriptures it was most commonly used when incest was being dealt with; and that, although incest is not being spoken of in the present instance, yet that its import is such that nothing less than adultery, also a grave moral offence, can have been...
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