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But if this thing be true, [and the tokens of] virginity be not found for the damsel:

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Translations

Louis Segond 1910

Mais si le fait est vrai, si la jeune femme ne s'est point trouvée vierge,

KJV

But if this thing be true, [and the tokens of] virginity be not found for the damsel:

Patristic reading

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  • Thomas Aquinas

    Summa Theologica

    otection of the paternal roof, until the day when they enter the married state. Thus it is written ( Dt. 22:20,21 ): "If . . . virginity be not found in the damsel . . . the men of the city shall stone her to death, and she shall die; because she hath done a wicked thing in Israe…
  • Various

    Patrologia Latina Vol. 125 (Migne)

    it [Col. 0689D] nefas in Israel, ut fornicaretur in domo patris sui, et auferes malum de medio tui (Deut. XXII, 13-21) . Et de incesto in Levitico scriptum est: Omnis homo ad proximam sanguinis sui non accedat, ut revelet turpitudinem ejus; ego Dominus. Turpitudinem sororis tuae…
  • Various

    Patrologia Latina Vol. 171 (Migne)

    dicatione, quia non omnia dicenda sunt omnibus; et sicut dicit Moyses, non arandum in bove et asino (Deut. XXII, 20) ; ita non est eadem praedicatio facienda doctis et indoctis; sed juxta diversitatem personarum, juxta capacitatem auditorum, modificandus est et mutandus sermo rec…

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