Anf-03 v.iv.v.xxxiv Pg 3
Luke xvi. 18.
In order to forbid divorce, He makes it unlawful to marry a woman that has been put away. Moses, however, permitted repudiation in Deuteronomy: “When a man hath taken a wife, and hath lived with her, and it come to pass that she find no favour in his eyes, because he hath found unchastity in her; then let him write her a bill of divorcement and give it in her hand, and send her away out of his house.”4804 4804
Anf-03 v.iv.v.xxxiv Pg 14
Luke xvi. 18.
—“put away,” that is, for the reason wherefore a woman ought not to be dismissed, that another wife may be obtained. For he who marries a woman who is unlawfully put away is as much of an adulterer as the man who marries one who is un-divorced. Permanent is the marriage which is not rightly dissolved; to marry,4815 4815 Nubere. This verb is here used of both sexes, in a general sense.
therefore, whilst matrimony is undissolved, is to commit adultery. Since, therefore, His prohibition of divorce was a conditional one, He did not prohibit absolutely; and what He did not absolutely forbid, that He permitted on some occasions,4816 4816 Alias.
when there is an absence of the cause why He gave His prohibition. In very deed4817 4817 Etiam: first word of the sentence.
His teaching is not contrary to Moses, whose precept He partially4818 4818 Alicubi.
defends, I will not4819 4819 Nondum.
say confirms. If, however, you deny that divorce is in any way permitted by Christ, how is it that you on your side4820 4820 Tu.
destroy marriage, not uniting man and woman, nor admitting to the sacrament of baptism and of the eucharist those who have been united in marriage anywhere else,4821 4821 Alibi: i.e., than in the Marcionite connection.
unless they should agree together to repudiate the fruit of their marriage, and so the very Creator Himself? Well, then, what is a husband to do in your sect,4822 4822 Apud te.
if his wife commit adultery? Shall he keep her? But your own apostle, you know,4823 4823 Scilicet.
does not permit “the members of Christ to be joined to a harlot.”4824 4824
Edersheim Bible History
Lifetimes ix.xxii Pg 36.1
Treasury of Scriptural Knowledge, Chapter 16
VERSE (18) - Mt 5:32; 19:9 Mr 10:11,12 1Co 7:4,10-12
