Dr. Kitto.

"The injunction when polygamy was permitted, which forbade a man to have two sisters at once, has been construed, under the Christian laws, to apply equally to the case of a man marrying the sister of a deceased wife. The law itself, however, is so plain that it is difficult to conceive how its true object could have been thus misinterpreted. It may be safely said that such an idea would never have occurred in the East, where the Mosaic marriage law had its origin."