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1. these statutes relate to marriage, and determine the degrees within which it is not lawful to contract marriage, has been, we have reason to believe, the judgment of the Church of God in every age.

In this manner, both the Talmudists and the Karaites interpreted the law. On other points of explanation they differed; but in this they were entirely agreed.

The judgment of primitive Christians coincided with that of the Jews.

And, at the Reformation, when, by the inquiry of Henry VIII., this Levitical law came to be investigated anew, by the Universities of