Volume 1

Thelyphthora; or, a treatise on female ruin, in its causes, effects, consequences, prevention, and remedy; considered on the basis of the divine law under the following heads, viz. marriage, whoredom and fornication, adultery, polygamy, divorce, with many other incidental matters, particularly including an examination of the principles and tendency of Stat. 26 Geo. II. c. 33, commonly called The marriage act / [Anon].

  • Martin Madan
Date:
1780-1781
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Credit: Thelyphthora; or, a treatise on female ruin, in its causes, effects, consequences, prevention, and remedy; considered on the basis of the divine law under the following heads, viz. marriage, whoredom and fornication, adultery, polygamy, divorce, with many other incidental matters, particularly including an examination of the principles and tendency of Stat. 26 Geo. II. c. 33, commonly called The marriage act / [Anon]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    c< [ 1β־> ] all along in this chapter of confangulnity and affinityy it is reafonable, as Schind- lerus obferves, to conclude he doth fo here, not of one woman to anothery but of one * fifier to another. There being ** alfo the like reafon to undcrftand the “ word fifler properly in this place, as the words daughter or mother in others, ver. “ 17, and chap. xx. 14. where he for- bids a man to take a woman and her mothery or a woman and her daughtery as I'heodoric Hackfpan fufficiently notes. The meaning therefore is, that though two wives at a timey or morey were permitted in thofe days, no man ihould take twoβfiers (as Jacob for- merly did, before there was any pofi- tive law againft it) begotten of the fame fat her y or born of the fame mot hery whether legitimately or illegitimately, (which, though it may feem prohibited before, becaufe the marriage of a bro-· thers wife is forbidden) yet it is here direitly prohibited, as other marriages are which were implicitly forbidden before; for ver. 7. the marriage of a fin with his mother is forbidden, and * It is to be obferved that גחות^ is ufed four times in other parts of the chapter, and necelTarily iigni- fies, as our tranflators have rendered it—a ββοτ· So Lev. XX. 17, 19. ver· €€