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John Gill's Exposition on Matthew 22:26

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Exposition of the Old and New Testament
John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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Likewise the second also, etc.] The eldest of the surviving brethren, having married his brother’s wife, after sometime died also without children, and left her to his next brother to marry her; and the third brother accordingly did marry her, and in process of time died likewise, leaving no issue behind him; and thus they went on in course, unto the seventh: the fourth, fifth, and sixth, married her in turn, and so did the seventh; and all died in the same circumstances, having no children by her.
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