Notes On Old Testament
| Author | John Wesley |
|---|---|
| Type | notes |
| Year | None |
| Passage ID | jw-notes-on-old-testament-464 |
| Words | 139 |
See her nakedness - In this and several of the following verses, uncovering nakedness plainly appears to mean not marriage, but fornication or adultery. They shall die childless - Either shall be speedily cut off ere they can have a child by that incestuous conjunction; if this seem a less crime than most of the former incestuous mixtures, and therefore the magistrate forbear to punish it with death; yet they shall either have no children from such an unlawful bed, or their children shall die before them. His brother's wife - Except in the case allowed by God, Deu 25:5. A man or a woman that hath a familiar spirit, shall surely be put to death - They that are in league with the devil, have in effect made a covenant with death: and so shall their doom be.