One ought also to observe Cf. Julius Afric., Ep. ad Aristidem, cited in Eusebius, Hist. Eccles. i. 7. this, that the law was that when a man died without seed, this man’s brother should take to wife the wife of the dead man and raise up seed to his brother Deut. xxv. 5.. The offspring, therefore, belonged by nature to the second, that is, to him that begat it, but by law to the dead.