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Commentaries on the four last books of Moses Volume 2 ; arranged in the form of a harmony
Commentaries on the four last books of Moses Volume 2 arranged in the form of a harmony Author:Jean Calvin 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. 1853 Excerpt: ...the high priest to marry any but a virgin, He did not wish to violate this rule, which is dictated by nature and reason; but, regard being... more » had to age, He desired that modesty and propriety should be maintained in the marriage, so that, if the priest were of advanced years, he should marry a virgin not too far from his own age: but, if he were failing and now but little fitted for marriage on account of his old age, the law that he should marry a virgin was rather an exhortation to celibacy, than that he should expose himself to many troubles and to general ridicule. 1 Ainsworth's literal translation is "a virgin of his peoples." Fr., " Ailleurs il se prend pour tout le corps de la lignee d'Abraham;" elsewhere it is taken for the whole body of the race of Abraham. It is surely strange that C., who here seems to draw out the Christology of the ordinances of the Law with unusual fulness and precision, should have omitted to mention " the mystical union which is between Christ and His Church," as most luminously set forth in this type. Vide Song, pasrim. Ps. xlv.; 2 Cor. xi. 2; Eph. v. 27; Rev. xix. 8, &c. 9. And the daughter of any priest. The moderation and chastity (required in the priest1) is extended also to his daughter; and by synecdoche all that relates to good discipline is comprised under a single head; viz., that his children should be educated in the study of virtue, and in decent and pure morality. A heavy punishment is denounced against a priest's daughter if she should play the harlot, because sacrilege would be combined with her disgraceful licentiousness. But it is no light crime to violate God's sanctuary; and, if the priest had tolerated such an iniquity in his daughter, he would have been no severe avenger o...« less