[114] Riehm, Handwörterbuch, Baethgen, vol. i., p. 463.
[115] Cf. Renan, Philosophic Dialogues, iii. p. 26: "La nature a intérêt à ce que la femme soit chaste et à ce que l'homme ne le soit pas trop. De là un ensemble d'opinions qui couvre d'infamie la femme non chaste, et frappe presque de ridicule l'homme chaste. Et l'opinion quand elle est profonde, obstinée, c'est la nature même."
[116] Cf. 1 Sam. xxv. 18 ff; 2 Sam. xiv. 1 ff.
[117] Cf. Exod. xv. and 1 Sam. xviii. 6 f.
[118] Chap. xxii. 13-18.
[119] Hosea ii. 19.
[120] The Primitive Family, Starcke, p. 141.
[121] Indeed in India it was not only the widow of the childless man who might bear him a son whose real father was a near relation, but his childless wife also.—Maine, Early Law, p. 102.
[122] That the latter course may in some cases have been unpopular with the sonless man's nearest kin is clear, since under it the inheritance must be divided, and it might pass to remoter connections, though not beyond the tribe. The nearer relations would, therefore, probably prefer that their brother's property should be kept intact and be transmitted with his name, and this ancient custom, sanctioned and modified by Mosaism, would give them that choice.
[123] Especially in some of the Southern Colonies in one of which this exposition is written.