Leviticus — Chapter 18
These annotations are from the original 1609 Douay Old Testament, the first complete English Catholic Bible translation, produced by English scholars in exile at the English College of Douai. The archaic spelling is preserved.
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Verse 6
Next of his bloud.] Mariage is forbid first and most strictly by the law of nature, in al degrees in the right line ascending and decending, both in consanguinitie and affinitie. In the right line God himselfe (who onlie can) neuer dispensed. Secondarily, the first collateral degree in consanguinitie, that is, between brother and sister, is also vnlawful by the law of nature, except in the beginning of the world. But besides the right line, & the first collateral degree in consanguinitie, no other collateral degrees are prohibited by the law of nature, but by positiue only. Wherfore seeing these degrees were not forbid by the law of nature but by positiue only, and that both ceremonial & iudicial lawes of the old Testament ceased in the New, it resteth proued that the same bind not Christians, but as they are renewed and established by the Church.