DIVORCEMENT (One)
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Judaistic propensity had, over many centuries, perverted the marriage institution such that a man might divorce his wife if she displeases him even in the dressing of his victuals. Any flimsy reason that causes an occasion of “if she finds no favour in his (husband’s) eyes” of Deuteronomy 24:1 was Pharisaically enough to put away the wife; and should any man meet another woman and her beauty causes the husband not to find the wife no more pleasing, even if she had borne children, “if she finds no favour in his eyes” is enough to send the wife away. Moses, observing their inability to maintain the sanctity of conjugality, and in his bid to prevent a worse bastardization of the Divine establishment, Moses disallowed a continuance of marital faux pas. The Scriptural facticity remains that, “but from the beginning it was not so.”
What, exactly, is this beginning that Jesus is making reference to? The first marriage of Eden consummation was contacted to last forever. Adam never allowed it even to cross his mind to put the Woman, Adam the female, away even though she was the perpetrator of the original sin. The truth, however, is that in the counsel of the Godhead, long before the creation of Adamic beings, the Trinity, having decided to bring the soteriology in partnership with marriage to the Lamb, it must, un rhetorically be divorce-proof. Read More