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What the Fathers say

Deuteronomy 21:17

Western Saints

Ambrose of Milan

This digression then of ours from one part of the Law to the other, for the purpose of shewing that the firstborn is not the son of the beloved, that is of the more remiss and voluptuous wife, has not been needless, although the words of the chapter before us express the same truth: He may not make the son of the beloved first-born before the son of the hated, which is indeed the first-born. …

Letters 31-40 ↗