...for thee that one of thy members should perish and not that thy whole body should be cast into hell. It hath been said, Whosoever shall put away his wife, let him give her a writing of divorcement: But 1 say unto you, That whosoever shall put away his wife, saving for the cause of fornication, causeth...

...highest authority in Christian legislation £ " I say unto you, Whosoever shall put away his wife, save for the cause of fornication, causeth her to commit adultery ; and whosoever shall marry her that is put awaj X 1819.] committeth adultery." This authoritative sentence should at least prevent the marriage...

...thing else in the language oj Christ, we have not been able to find his meaning. ' Whoever (says he) shall put away his wife, saving for the cause of fornication, causeth her to commit adultery.'t Milton cites Grotius, indeed, as proving, ' that fornication is taken in Scripture for...

...for thee that one of thy members should perish, and not that thy whole body should be cast into hell. It hath been said. Whosoever shall put away his wife,...let him give her a writing of divorcement : but I gay unto you, That whosoever shall put away his wife, saving for the cause of fornication, canseth...

...thither now without interruption the course of method brings us. TETRACHORDON: MATTH. V, 31, 32. 31. "It hath been said, whosoever shall put away his wife, let him give her a writing of divorce' ment" 32. " But I say unto you, that whosoever shall put away his wife" fyc. MATTH. XIX, 3,...

...divorce, in his sermon on the mount, pur Saviour expresses himself in the following terms, viz. " It has been said, whosoever shall put away his wife, let him give her a bill of divorcement." As these are not the words of the law of Deuteronomy, it is manifest that our...

...mount, he first adverts to it. He then thus expresses himself : " It hath been said by them of old time, whosoever shall put away his wife, let him give her a writing of Divorcement."1 It m;ay be inferred that, by the expression " it hath been said by them of old time,"...

...injunction as ever issued from the lips of the Saviour of mankind ? The words of our Lord are these; "It hath been said, Whosoever shall put away his wife,...; and whosoever shall marry her that is divorced, committeth adultery." The putting away here reprobated did not consist in a mere separation, buta dissolution...

...proposition affirmed in the 5th of St. Matthew is, that " whosoever shall put away his wife, except for the cause of fornication, causeth her to commit...shall marry her that is divorced committed! adultery." In the 19th the proposition is, that " a husband putting away his wife, except for the cause of fornication,...

...importance. He had been, taught to revere that as a divine maxim which declared, that " Whoso putteth away his wife, saving for the cause of fornication, causeth her to commit adultery." Did he quote the passage correctly? If not, some of the right rev, prelates would correct him ; but...