If this be an objection, it is one to which the Mishna, and the Jewish
Rabbis, and Dr. M’Caul are open just as much as I am. For they all
acknowledge and maintain that upon that 18th verse of xviii. Leviticus is
founded the prohibition which they all claim as to the brother in the
case of two brothers having married two sisters; of the one not being
permitted to obey the injunction of the law of the Levirate, as to taking
the other’s wife in the particular case of the one brother leaving a
widow whilst the other brother’s wife is yet living.