Excerpt from A Vindication of the Law Prohibiting Marriage With a Deceased Wife's Sister: I. On Social Principles; II. On Scripture Principles; In Two Letters, Addressed to the Dean of Westminster, Chairman of the Marriage Law Defence Association There is one consideration further to which it may be well to call attention, viz., that the translation of Lev. Xviii. 18, is not' to be confused with its interpretation. Dr. M'caul naturally insists much upon the translation, and in addition to his own critical judgment, allowed to be of great weight from his known eminence as an Hebrew Scholar, he gives many authorities in favour of the rendering as it stands in the text of our authorized version. Still it is to be remarked that the authorities whom he cites for the translation are by no means at one with him as to the inter protation. This point will be found very fully treated of in the second letter of the present Lord Chancellor to the Dean of Westminster, printed in and, if I remember rightly, it was also examined and the result put very forcibly by the bishop of Exeter in the postscript to his letter to the late Bishop of Lichfield, published, I believe, in 1860, where it is observantly noted that of all our Reformers cited by Dr. 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 1n the application of it which he advocates, inasmach as they have all either explicitly or implicitly received our table of prohibited degrees: a proof that even from Dr. M'caul's premiss, 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. Second Letter of woe-chancellor S1r. W. Page Wood, pp. 47 - 63. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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