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Jdg_21:18 Howbeit we may not give them wives of our daughters: for the children of Israel have sworn, saying, Cursed [be] he that giveth a wife to Benjamin.
Ver. 18. Howbeit we may not give them wives of our daughters.] And unless those daughters were given them by their parents, they would not marry with the Benjamites, though it were to be made mistresses of such large inheritances. It is of the law of nature, that parents have the dispose of their children in marriage. But the Pope taketh upon him to dispense in that case. Potest de iniustitia facere iustitiam, saith Bellarmine {a} out of the Canonists. Ex nihilo aliquid, ex virtute vitium. Papae!
Cursed be he that giveth a wife to Benjamin.] They had backed their oath with an imprecation. This was to be too hot in a cold matter. They will not break their unlawful oath; but they devise how to elude it, which was worse. Dum vitant stulti vitium, &c.
{a} De Pontif. Rom., lib. iv.