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ordnen oder ausſpenden laſſen wollen, damit auch andere Chriſten ihnen zu
ſolchem ihrem Eheſtande von Gott Segen und Wohlfahrt erbitten mögen.“
(B. Carpzovii Jurispr. ecclesiast. L. II. fol. 152 s.)

Die theologiſche Facultät zu Leipzig wiederum gab immer das
ſtrenge Votum ab zur Zerreißung ſolcher Ehen.

Im Jahre 1700 ſchrieb dieſelbe: „Ob zwar die Ehe mit der verſtorbenen
Frauen leiblicher Schweſter nicht contra jus naturae stricte sic dictum ſei,
weil ſonſt Gott der HErr den frommen Patriarchen Jakob, der zugleich zwei
Schweſtern, Rahel und Lea, zu Weibern gehabt Gen. 29., nicht dispenſiren
können, indem, quod juris naturae, ab essentiali Dei justitia et sanctitate
dependirt und alſo prorsus immutabile et indispensabile iſt, 2 Tim. 3, 13.,
dennoch aber cum jure divino positivo et revelato universali, welches
alle Menſchen ohne Unterſchied verbindet, keinesweges beſtehen könne, weil die
göttliche Majeſtät ausdrücklich ſagt Lev. 18, 16.: ‚Du ſollſt deines Bruders
Weibes‘ ꝛc.“ (A. a. O. S. 629 f.)

Und im Jahre 1711: „Obwohl verſchiedene Ehen in gradibus pro-
hibitis von der Beſchaffenheit ſind, daß nach deren einmal geſchehener Voll⸗
ziehung der verehelichte Mann bei dem Gebrauch ſeines Weibes et vice versa
gelaſſen werden mag, von welcher Art die Ehen im andern Grade ungleicher
Linie der Blutsfreundſchaft ſowohl als Schwägerſchaft zu ſein gehalten
werden.*) Nicht zwar, als wenn von Menſchen gegen das göttliche Verbot
derſelben dispenſirt werden könnte (inmaßen der weltlichen Obrigkeit nicht
eingeräumt wird, daß ſie dergleichen Heirathen zu ſchließen verhänge); ſon⸗
dern weil dergleichen einmal geſchloſſene Heirathen tolerirt werden mögen, in
Anſehen in dem göttlichen Geſetze Lev. 18. und 20. auf dergleichen keine
Lebensſtrafe geſetzt worden, ſondern die Verbundenen bei ihrer Verbindung,
unter Bedrohung der Unfruchtbarkeit, beiſammen gelaſſen und der willkür⸗
lichen Strafe der Obrigkeit überlaſſen werden; auch Exempel ſolcher von
Gott ſelbſt tolerirten Ehen vorhanden ſind. (cf. Carpzov. Jurispr. consist.
l. 2. tit. 6. def. 99. Musaeus, Thes. de conjug. p. 174 s. Baier. Disp.
de differeutia dispens. et tolerantiae.)“ (Auserleſ. Bedenken ꝛc. S. 417.)

Milder urtheilte Spener: „Wie ich denn ſolches impedimentum,
ſo ex lege positiva morali herkommt, pro impedimento matrimonii in-
eundi, nicht aber causa rescindendi initum achte: dergleichen einige
andere ſich finden mögen.“ (Bedenken, vom J. 1681. II, 552.)

Ebenſo Dannhauer: „Es iſt ein großer Unterſchied zwiſchen den
Graden der auf⸗ und abſteigenden und der Seitenlinie. Jene ſind indispen⸗
ſabel, dieſe ſind zwar, weil ſie das Moralgeſetz oder poſitive Recht betreffen,
dispenſabel, jedoch nicht durch menſchliches Recht, ſondern durch göttliches.“
(Th. casual. p. 271.)

Verleſen wurde ſodann der hierhergehörige Abſchnitt aus des Herrn

*) Alſo die Tante, Lev. 18, 12. 13. 20, 19., und die Baſe, Lev. 18, 14. 10, 20.

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order or dispense, so that other Christians also may pray God for blessing and welfare for them in such their married state." (B. Carpzov, Jurispr. ecclesiast., L. II, fol. 152 s.)

The theological faculty at Leipzig, on the other hand, always gave the strict vote for the tearing apart of such marriages.

In the year 1700 it wrote: "Although the marriage with the deceased wife's own sister is not contrary to the law of nature in the strict sense (contra jus naturae stricte sic dictum), since otherwise the Lord God could not have granted a dispensation to the pious patriarch Jacob, who had two sisters, Rachel and Leah, as wives at the same time, Genesis 29, inasmuch as what belongs to the law of nature depends on the essential justice and holiness of God and is therefore wholly unchangeable and not subject to dispensation (prorsus immutabile et indispensabile), 2 Timothy 3:13, nevertheless it can by no means stand with the positive and revealed divine law of universal force (cum jure divino positivo et revelato universali), which binds all men without distinction, because the divine majesty expressly says in Leviticus 18:16: 'You shall not uncover the nakedness of your brother's wife,' etc." (Loc. cit., p. 629 f.)

And in the year 1711: "Although various marriages in forbidden degrees (in gradibus prohibitis) are of such a nature that, once they have been consummated, the married man may be left in the use of his wife and vice versa (et vice versa), of which kind are the marriages in the second degree of the unequal line, of blood relationship as well as of affinity.*) Not, indeed, as if human beings could grant a dispensation against the divine prohibition of them (inasmuch as it is not conceded to the secular authorities that they may order such marriages to be contracted); but because such marriages, once contracted, may be tolerated, in view of the fact that in the divine law, Leviticus 18 and 20, no capital punishment is set for such, but those joined are left together in their union, under the threat of childlessness, and left to the arbitrary punishment of the authorities; and also there are examples of such marriages tolerated by God Himself. (Cf. Carpzov, Jurispr. consist., l. 2, tit. 6, def. 99; Musaeus, Thes. de conjug., p. 174 s.; Baier, Disp. de differeutia dispens. et tolerantiae.)" (Selected Opinions, etc., p. 417.)

Spener judged more mildly: "As I regard such an impediment (impedimentum), which comes from a positive moral law, as an impediment to entering a marriage (pro impedimento matrimonii ineundi), but not as a cause for rescinding one already entered (non autem causa rescindendi initum): there may be several others of the kind." (Opinion of the year 1681, II, 552.)

Likewise Dannhauer: "There is a great difference between the degrees of the ascending and descending lines and of the collateral line. The former are not dispensable (indispensabel); the latter are indeed dispensable, since they concern the moral law or positive law, yet not through human law but through divine." (Th. casual., p. 271.)

There was then read the relevant section from the Reverend

*) That is, the aunt, Leviticus 18:12, 13; 20:19, and the cousin (female), Leviticus 18:14; 10, 20 [sic].