Augustine of Hippo : If you marry a woman and cohabit with her, and you get an aversion and impose words of opportunity and spreads bad reputation and says: "I married this woman and, approaching her, I did not find her a virgin", then the father and the mother of the girl, taking the evidence of the virginity of the girl, will bring them out to the elders, at the door, and the girl's father will say to the elders: "This daughter of mine I gave as a woman to This man and he, taking hate, now imposes words of opportunity, saying: I have not found the virginity of your daughter. But here is my daughter's virginity. " And they shall take up the cloth before the elders of that city, and the elders of that city shall take the man and punish him and impose a fine of a hundred shekels, and give them to the girl's father, because he propounded a bad name to an Israelite virgin; and this will be his wife; he will not be able to repudiate her in all his life. But if this thing is true and the virginity of the girl is not found, then the girl will be taken out of the door of her father's house and the men of that city will stone her with stones, and she will die, because she committed an infamy among the you children of Israel, prostituting the house of its father, and thus you will remove the evil of in the middle of you. This text clearly demonstrates how the law wanted women to be subject to their husbands and that wives were almost like maids, because, while the woman was stoned if it was proven true that the husband's testimony was against her, the man was not stoned if it was shown that his testimony had been false. He was only punished and fined, and forced to remain for the rest of his life with the woman from whom he had wanted to separate. In other cases, the law mandates that the same penalty be applied to this man should be punished if it were true, to the one that the law ordered to be killed if the false testimony with which he had harmed someone was proven. — QUESTIONS ON DEUTERONOMY, Q. 33 (tr. J. Litteral, draft)