Deuteronomy 25:5

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5 If brothers dwell together, and one of them die, and have no son, the wife of the dead shall not be married outside to a stranger: her husband's brother shall go in to her, and take her to him as wife, and perform the duty of a husband's brother to her.


Commentary on this verse  

By Alexander Payne

Verse 5. If there are two kindred and associated goods (such as spiritual and natural good, which are brethren), and one of them perish without leaving spiritual offspring, the truths associated with the lost good must net be alienated from the soul; but be cherished by the kindred good which shall be conjoined with them, so as to develop fresh goods and truths in the soul therefrom. [Note.—Thus in regeneration those who have formerly acted from merely natural good come at length to see that natural good is not real good, and it perishes; but the good deeds and thoughts associated with it must by no means be omitted but be done in the future with more judgement from a superior and spiritual motive. (Natural good is that of good-nature, as it is called, the natural disposition that one has to please others.)]