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prohibited in Scripture Certainly not. It is considered
a matter of ecclesiastical legislation."—Cardinal Wiseman.
"Though it is certain that the case of marriage between
brother and sister-in-law came before our Saviour (Matt.
xxii., 24), yet we do not find that he spake one word against
it."—Fry. •
"No man has examined this. subject more diligently than
Fry, the author of a pamphlet which you justly commend, and
you see my opinion perfectly coincides with his."—Sir Wil-
liam Jones.
" The subject matter requires that we take the word sister
in the common acceptation of it, and then an Israelite is for-
bid to take the wile's sister while that wife is living."—
Bishop Kidder.
" The meaning of the precept is, that no man should marry
his wife's sister while that wife is living."—Bishop Patrick.
" The Jews regarded the marriage with a wife's sister as
not unlawful. This marriage Moses permits ; but prohibits,
on the other hand, the marriage of two sisters at once."—
Michaelis.

" The civil law of Prussia accords full liberty to the marriage
of a man with the sister of his deceased wife. Such marriages
are by no means rare. Experience does not show that in their
consequences they differ essentially from other marriages."—
Royal Prussian Consistory, Prussian Saxony.
" Public opinion in our country is entirely,in favour of such
marriages, and when very lately this subject underwent dis-
cussion in both our Chambers, all our six dignitaries of the
Protestant Evangelical Church, as well as the two of the
Roman Catholic Church, pronounced themselves in its favour;
nor were there any voices raised by the strictly religious of
our community (of which, thank God, there are many) against
it."—Professor Kapff, Stuttgart.
" I do not remember any passages in the records of the
early Church which bear on this subject previously to the
positive enactment condemning- it, but not annulling it, in
the Council of Eliberis or Elvira in Spain, the most probable
date of which is A.D. 306. lam aware that an appeal to that
Council was made, not many years ago, in the House of Lords,
but I am convinced that too much stress has been laid on the
canon of that Council, and that its enactment cannot be re-
garded as any groundwork on which the Legis,ature of this
country can safely build its own laws on the subject of mar-
riage. If this canon on the subject of marriage be binding on
us, the others, as such, must be equally binding*; but some
there are which are utterly at variance with our views of social
duty, and could never find a response in the sentiments of our
Church and nation."—Rev. James Endell Tyler.
" From various considerations such marriages here have
become very common. So far are such marriages from being
contrary to public opinion, that people are, on the contrary,
inclined to consider them both natural and desirable. We
express our conviction that there ought to exist perfect
liberty between widowers and the sisters of' their late wives
to contract such marriage."—Ducal Saxe-Cobourg, Ministry
in Council.
"It it; my decided conviction, after careful investigation
and consideration, that there is no direct scriptural prohibi-
tion declarfiv such marriages unlawful. I do not stop to con-
sider how the Eepeal of the pregent law may affect the inter-
course between a husband and his wife's sister. This is not
a matte' for legislation. I could not support the law as it
now stands."--Bishov of Manchester.
"Whether the question is considered in a religious, moral,
or social point of view, suzli marriages are unobjectionable,
while in many instances the; contribute to the happiness of
the parties, and to the welfare of motherless children, and
among the poor, have a tendeneF to prevent immorality."—
Petition signed by the Bishop of London (Dr. Tait), 1849.
" There is even among the opponeots of this Bill (the Mar-
riage Bill) a wide diversity of opinion as to there being a
Divine command prohibiting these marriages, and that the
weight of authority is against the existence of any such Divine
injunction. If among the richer classes there is a dislike
upon social grounds to a change in the law, that dislike rests
upon sentimental rather than on substantial grounds ; whereas
among the poorer classes it cannot be denied that the law
causes great immorality and unhappiness."—Speech of Lord
Wodehouse, March 22, 1859.
"The passage (Lev. xviii., 18) requires no aid from a canon.
It is so clear, and so distinct, as to leave no doubt on my
mind respecting the Divine permission to contract these mar-
riages." I shall vote for this Bill, because I consider it cal-
culated to prevent a vast degree of immorality among the
poor ; and because I hold the prohibition of such mrriages to
be a flagrant violation of the rights ofconscience."—aSpeech of
the Earl of Albemarle.
"We who support this Bill do not think that the marriage
of a deceased wife's sister is opposed to the law of God, and
we do think that it is as wrong to restrict that which God
permits as to grant dispensation for that which God forbids."
—Speech of Viscount Lifford.
"These marriages are not contrary to the Divine command.
The scriptural argument against them seems to me to break
down at every step. In proportion as, by our prohibitions,
we multiply the opportunities of temptation, and prevent the
enjoyment of any seeming advantages, not ed.l in itself, in
the same proportion we extend and increase the power of the
enemy of mankind."—Speech of Bishop of Cork.
" He had never risen from an examination of the religious
arguments but with a firm conviction that these marriages
were sanctioned by the Word of God. As to the social
grounds, he could not conceive any reason for which the law
should prohibit those very marriages which seemed most
likely ,to secure, the happiness of the deceased wife's child-
ren."—Speech of Edward Ball, Esq., M.P.
" He thought that those who disapproved these marriages
should be content to obey their own consciences themselves,
but that they had no ground for enforcing on others scruples
which were not really based on the Word of God."—Speech of
Charles Buxton; Esq., M.P.
" He did not think the measure proposed was any infringe-
ment on scriptural precepts or commands. It was a remark-
able fact that from the time when the scriptural law was given
to the present day, so far as could be ascertained, the Jewish
people themselves had never interpreted that law as a law of
prohibition. Referring to marriage with a brother's widow,
the bishop said it was inconceivable that on a subject of mo-
ral purity and moral principle, the author of a scriptural law
should in one place permit that which in another place was
prohibited. He telt bound to say that lie did not perceive in.
the Scriptures any direct prohibition, or anyinferentiil pro-
hibition against such marriages."—Speech of ex-Bishop of
Norwich.
"So far as the poor are concerned, I believe that an altera-
tion of the present law is much to be desired."—Lord Auck-
land, Bishop of Bath and Wells.
"Public opinion, which feels no scruple of any kind as to
such marriages, approves of them most particularly when
there are young children of' a first marriage, as giving them
in the sister of their late mother a second loving mother. The
permission of such marriages has, with us, been productive in
no w ly of evil consequences."—Consistory Court of the Grand
Duchy of Mecklenburg-Strelitz.
"The arguments attempted to be drawn from Scripture by
the opponents of the measure were arguments by Inference ;
and, considering the conflict of opinion among eminent divines
of this and other Chlistian communities, and that, at best,
arguments by inferenco were of a very doubtful character, lie
thought they might very well leave the resolution of the doubt
to the conscience of each individual. But, believing. as he
did, that Scripture, so far from prohibiting, sanctioned these
marriages, it was a grievance of which the people might justly
complain, that the law of the land was out of harmony with
the revealed will of God."—Speech of the Bishop of Ripon.
"My Lords, the vote which I shall give in support of the
Bill before your Lordships' House, will, I think, be in accord-
ance with, and not in opposition to. the Levitical Law. I
acknowledge that law to be binding. I hold as strongly as
any one a belief in the inspiration of the Scriptures, but in
saying that, I mean that there is not a word too much nor a
word too little. Believing, then, that every word has its own
important meaning, I would remark that the verse in Leviti-
cus, which has been so often alluded to, contains these words,
during her lifetime.' My impression is that these are quali-
fying words ; that they imply a prohibition to take a wife's
sister as a wife, during the wife's lifetime to vex her—but
that the wife being dead, the prohibition was removed —that
the marrying a wife's sister on the death of the wile is thus
virtually pronounced to be perfectly lawful."—Speech of the
Bishop of Carlisle.

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