That to find the law of the Levirate in this place in the Book of
Leviticus would have been to find a provision solely and simply of the
Jewish economy and polity, most unnaturally intermixed with the
provisions of God’s general moral law:—that is, what is applicable solely
to Moses and the people under him, confused with the law intended for all
nations and people, as witnessed by the denunciations of that chapter of
the book of Leviticus with which we have been concerned. How is it
possible to suppose the Leviratical injunction of Deuteronomy could have
found a place among the things prohibited and condemned as the
abominations of the Canaanites and Egyptians?