{"author":null,"canonical_references":[],"database_sha256":"8cfbe7284c6936871d57c02dc6aa63ebbdfd4722422d539dd9f716e46e91112e","date_end":null,"date_start":null,"edition_year":null,"id":"sermonindex-ecf-3926","native_reference":{"book_number":50,"chapter_from":22,"chapter_to":22,"system":"MyBible module coordinates (mapping unverified)","verse_from":28,"verse_to":28},"public_import_allowed":false,"record_kind":"verse-keyed-module-record","review_required":["English edition and exact text","author/work attribution","dating","verse mapping and citation kind","reuse and attribution","split author quotations and deduplicate"],"review_status":"unreviewed","source_html":"<p><b>Augustine of Hippo</b>: Punishment of the man who has dishonored a virgin. \"If a man finds a virgin who has not been betrothed, and does violence to him, he sleeps with her, and they are found; This man who slept with her will give the father of the daughter fifty silver didrachmas, and she will be his wife, because he has dishonored her, and he will never be able to repudiate her. It is rightly asked whether this is a punishment for the culprit of never being able to repudiate the one he has dishonored in a guilty and unlawful manner. Are we inclined to believe that the motive for which he can not, (Deut. XXIV, 1) that is, never send her away, is that she has become his wife? we immediately remember the permission given by Moses to make an act of divorce and to dismiss the wife, but it is precisely this right that he refuses to the one who has committed the crime to dishonor a virgin; he does not want anyone to play with her, and that one pretends to take her for a wife, instead of accepting it frankly and with good will. The law gives the same right to the woman wrongly accused by her husband of having married him, without finding her a virgin (Ib. XXII, 19).<br/><i>— QUESTIONS ON DEUTERONOMY, Q. 34 (tr. J. Litteral, draft)</i></p>","source_html_sha256":"68d63046edddaaec6970f927df9ca1831a1acfa5573b5d5b6178af9b0fefca89","source_module":"ECF","source_row_id":3926,"source_url":"https://www.sermonindex.net/commentary/ecf/","text_sha256":"648959c951cce2c4247118d435290c3b0d01ecf029000ac02838c8791a7580ae","translator":null,"work":null}