a context which seems doubtful. The passage runs thus:
"Every one that putteth away his wife, and marrieth another, committeth adultery: and he that marrieth one, that is put away from a husband committeth adultery."[1]
In the fourth Gospel there is the touching history of the woman taken in adultery, whom Christ did not condemn, but this carries no clear indication of His mind on the subject of marriage. The point of the story is the unseemliness of moral severity in those who are themselves immoral.
Finally, in the Epistle to the Corinthians St. Paul quotes a commandment of the Lord to the following effect:
"But unto the married I give charge, yea not I, but the Lord, that the wife depart not from her husband (but and if she depart, let her remain unmarried, or else be reconciled to her husband); and that the husband leave not his wife."[2]
When we consider carefully these passages it is hard to avoid the conclusion, that they all relate to the same incident, and are repetitions
