Nilus of Ancyra→Thyrsus|c. 415 AD|nilus ancyra|From Ancyra|AI-assisted
To Thyrsus the Scriniarius [an official keeper of records, a scriniarius].
"He shall go in," says the law, "to his brother's wife, and shall raise up seed" [Deuteronomy 25:5, the law of levirate marriage]. For every man, or rather every soul of a man, having received from God a spiritual husband -- that is, the innate law -- put him to death and buried him through negligence. Therefore out of necessity it called upon this man's brother, that is, the written law, to go in to the wife of the natural law, who had been left a widow by death, and to raise up seed for him who had perished through much sloth.
To Thyrsus the Scriniarius [an official keeper of records, a scriniarius].
"He shall go in," says the law, "to his brother's wife, and shall raise up seed" [Deuteronomy 25:5, the law of levirate marriage]. For every man, or rather every soul of a man, having received from God a spiritual husband -- that is, the innate law -- put him to death and buried him through negligence. Therefore out of necessity it called upon this man's brother, that is, the written law, to go in to the wife of the natural law, who had been left a widow by death, and to raise up seed for him who had perished through much sloth.
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