![]() ![]() ![]() Separation in those verses is synonymous with divorce resulting in a state of “unmarriage”.Now, can you have separation without legal divorce? Yes, you can. But that is a ridiculous reading.Then there is the disciple’s astonishment in verse 10. But if you read on in verse 9, Jesus says that a man who “puts away his wife, except for sexual immorality, and marries another, commits adultery.” If we are to believe Harry’s statement that divorce and putting away are two different things, then Jesus is saying that as long as your wife has been involved in sexual immorality you do not need a certificate of divorce. Jesus then uses “put away” as shorthand for both, i.e., in their minds a certificate of divorce was a prerequisite for putting away.That doesn’t prove that divorce and putting away are always together, however. ![]() They said to him, “Why then did Moses command one to give a certificate of divorce and to put her away?”He said to them, “Because of your hardness of heart Moses allowed you to put away your wives, but from the beginning it was not so.And I say to you: whoever puts away his wife, except for sexual immorality, and marries another, commits adultery.”The disciples said to him, “If such is the case of a man and his wife, it is better not to marry.”Clearly, the Pharisees understood divorce and putting away to be all one action. ![]()
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