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Leviticus 18:4

Western Saints

Bonaventure

Conjugal chastity accords with the written law by reason of the divine statute, Leviticus 18. For the Lord established laws according to which legitimacy is observed in the persons who contract marriage. For He says: I am the Lord your God: keep my laws and judgments, which if a man do, he shall live in them. No man shall approach to her that is near of kin to him, etc. …

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