Marriage: Contracted at the Gate and Before Witnesses

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Ruth 4:1,10,11
Then went Boaz up to the gate, and sat him down there: and, behold, the kinsman of whom Boaz spoke came by; to whom he said, Ho, such a one! turn aside, sit down here. And he turned aside, and sat down.
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Chaldaean Civilization
... required for this irregular union, and many a son contracted a marriage after this ...
from the beaks of ravens."He seized the seal before witnesses"and he ...
/.../chapter iiichaldaean civilization.htm

Summa Theologica
... Whether the angels were created before the corporeal world? ... Whether the
intellect understands the indivisible before the divisible? ...
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Of the Agreement of the Evangelists Matthew and Luke in the ...
... as it were, that He could have contracted defilement from ... my irregular [1707] life
I shut the gate of my ... the fulfilment of this end of marriage, acts contrary ...
/.../sermons on selected lessons of the new testament/sermon i of the agreement.htm

The Argument for the Immaculate Conception.
... conclusus, fons signatus'), and the closed gate in the ... children of Joseph by a former
marriage (Epiphanius), or ... her debt was paid which she never contracted! ...
/.../ 29 the argument for.htm

Sermons on Selected Lessons of the Gospels.
... Creed, taught before Lord's Prayer, [894]274, [895]280 ... 1427]343; in what sense they
contracted sin, by ... consciences tremble at, [1474]404; gate of repentance ...
/.../sermons on selected lessons of.htm

The Power of Assyria at Its Zenith; Esarhaddon and Assur-Bani-Pal
... A cage was built for him at the gate of the ... manner given one of his daughters in
marriage to Ambaris ... and that the Assyrian frontier became contracted on that ...
/.../chapter iithe power of assyria 2.htm

From the Close of the General Conference of 1792 to the Close of ...
... prosecuted and fined for performing the marriage ceremony. ... ministerial labors were
very much contracted, and their ... present, and some felt as at heaven's gate. ...
/.../chapter 1 from the close.htm

The Reaction against Egypt
... by his marriage with one of his sisters: it was ... from the moment he appeared at the
gate of the ... heavy lids; the large, fleshy lips, slightly contracted at the ...
/.../chapter iithe reaction against egypt.htm

The Close of the Theban Empire
... like a ball, the chest is contracted, the head ... of the character which had distinguished
them before the conquest ... He gave to them in marriage his sisters, his ...
/.../chapter iiithe close of the.htm

English Version of the Second Helvetic Confession, AD 1566.
... strive to enter in at the strait gate' (Luke 13:24 ... said of faith, the apostles taught
them before us, even ... 2 Thessalonians 1:8). Besides, Luke witnesses and says ...
/.../english version of the second.htm