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NASB | Matthew 19:9 "And I say to you, whoever divorces his wife, except for immorality, and marries another woman commits adultery." |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Matthew 19:9 "I say to you, whoever divorces his wife, except for sexual immorality, and marries another woman commits adultery." |
Bible Question: is it unlawfly for a man to divoce his wife for any reason? |
Bible Answer: It sems to me that to suggest that lust is a grounds for divorce as Parable does is totally to misuse what Jesus said and to fail to understand the nature of marriage. Lust does not make two people one. And whose divorce does it justify? Certainly not the woman's. She has done nothing wrong. And for a considerable number of men it would mean divorce every week. So it seems to me that his conclusion is a non sequitur. The Pentateuch nowhere provides for divorce. Deuteronomy 24 is not intending to legalise divorce but to protect the situation after a divorce by custom has taken place. It should probably be translated, 'When a man take a woman and becomes her husband, if she does not find favor in his eyes, because he finds something indecent in her, and he writes her a bill of divorce for her ---' and then it goes on to deal with the fact that for him to marry her again is not allowable. (See P Craigie - Deuteronomy - Intnl Comm on the OT). It became seen as permission for divorce and that then raised the question as to what 'something indecent it her' meant. Rabbi Shammai said that it meant adultery. (He 'bound' the Law) .Rabbi Hillel said that it meant any fault at all like burning the dinner (He 'loosed' the Law). Both however conceded the right to divorce. But Jesus countermanded their ideas and said no divorce except on the grounds of adultery. So Jesus position is clear, no divorce except on the grounds of adultery. And then it is only the innocent party who can marry without sinning. This is the new principle of the Kingly Rule of Heaven. |