Ambrose of Milan
Patristic
A.D. 339–397
“But when reason did no good and violence prevailed, the Levite parted from his wife, and they knew her and abused her all that night.”
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Judg 19:25
How this passage has been read — the sources, oldest to newest.
From the early Church Fathers to now.
Judg 19:25 · Douay-Rheims
“They would not be satisfied with his words; which the man seeing, brought out his concubine to them, and abandoned her to their wickedness: and when they had abused her all the night, they let her go in the morning.”
Patristic
before A.D. 750
397
A.D.
397
A.D.
Ambrose of Milan
Patristic
A.D. 339–397
“Driven by a wave of fury and inflamed by the incentive of lust, their desire for the young woman's beauty increased the more she was denied them. Deprived of all righteousness, they mocked his fair words, considering the old man's daughter an object of contempt in that she was offered with less feeling of ill will toward the crime. Then, when pious entreaties availed nothing and the aged hands were hopelessly extended in vain, the woman was seized and all that night was subjected to violence.”
Modern · 1953 →
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