Ambrose of Milan
Patristic
A.D. 339–397
“The sentence, further, was that none of the people of the ancestors should give his daughter in marriage to [members of Benjamin's tribe]. This was confirmed by a solemn oath.”
The interpretation timeline
Judg 21:18
How this passage has been read — the sources, oldest to newest.
From the early Church Fathers to now.
Judg 21:18 · Douay-Rheims
“For as to our own daughters we cannot give them, being bound with an oath and a curse, whereby we said: Cursed be he that shall give Benjamin any of his daughters to wife.”
Patristic
before A.D. 750
397
A.D.
Modern · 1953 →
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