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Judges 19:1

Western Saints

Ambrose of Milan

How full of pitiful traits is this story! A man, it says, a Levite, had taken to himself a wife, who I suppose was called a concubine from the word concubitus. She some time afterwards, as is likely to happen, offended at certain things, returned to her father and was with him four months.

On the Duties of the Clergy 3.19.111-12 ↗