And what man [is there] that hath betrothed a wife, and hath not taken her? let him go and return unto his house, lest he die in the battle, and another man take her.
KJV
Hebrew original
Louis Segond 1910
Qui est-ce qui a fiancé une femme, et ne l'a point encore prise? Qu'il s'en aille et retourne chez lui, de peur qu'il ne meure dans la bataille et qu'un autre ne la prenne.
KJV
And what man [is there] that hath betrothed a wife, and hath not taken her? let him go and return unto his house, lest he die in the battle, and another man take her.
Thomas Aquinas
Summa Theologica
ood is sought in a war which men fight against their enemies. Therefore it is unsuitably commanded ( Dt. 20:5-7 ) that certain men should be sent home, for instance a man that had built a new house, or who had planted a vineyard, or who had married a wife. Objection 6: Further, n…
Various
Patrologia Latina Vol. 99 (Migne)
Neque se uxoris. Miles, uxore ducta, apud Hebraeos militia solvebatur, saltem ad tempus, ut habetur Deut. XX, 7, et I Machab. III, 56. Et dixit (Judas) his, qui . . . sponsabant uxores . . . ut redirent unusquisque in domum suam secundum legem. In militia romana in castris femi…
Various
Patrologia Latina Vol. 120 (Migne)
um accepit eam? vadat et revertatur in domum suam ne forte moriatur in bello, et alius accipiat eam (Deut. XX, 7) . Nec non et alibi: Si autem fuerit adolescentula sponsata viro, et invenerit eam homo, humiliaveritque [Col. 0108A] eam, ambo moriantur. Adolescentula quidem, quia…
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