Authorized Version

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Mayow Wynell Mayow,  Marriage with a Deceased Wife's Sister

“ M’Caul as having accepted the authorized version as to the rendering of Lev. xviii. 18, there is not one who has gone with him in the application of it which he advocates, inasmuch as they have all either explicitly or implicitly received our table of prohibited degrees: a proof that even from Dr. M’Caul’s premise, as to the translation, they have not come to his conclusion as to the interpretation. And it is plainly in the interpretation, not in the mere translation, that the above-mentioned contradiction is involved. ”
Source: Gutenberg

Mayow Wynell Mayow,  Marriage with a Deceased Wife's Sister

“ My aim will be to show, even conceding the whole demand as to the correctness of the translation found in the Text of our authorized version, and not disputing the inference that there is a certain tacit sanction of such a Union with the second sister after the death of the first, yet that upon a careful consideration, it may most reasonably be maintained that the sanction does not extend to any general permission of the same, but that the enactment or permission is made p. ”
Source: Gutenberg

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