Essay on the "Scripture Doctrines of Adultery and Divorce, and on the Criminal Character and Punishment of Adultery, by the Ancient Laws of England and Other Countries;": Being a Subject Proposed for Investigation by the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge in the Diocese of St. David's; and to which that Society Awarded Its Premium of Fifty Pounds in December, 1821, Volume 1F.C. and J. Rivington, 1822 - 254 pages |
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... Moses was not to be regarded as the interpreter of the moral : the doctrines of Christianity afford the interpretation . These we shall afterwards consider , but we may now observe , that those imputations which would fasten on the ...
... Moses was not to be regarded as the interpreter of the moral : the doctrines of Christianity afford the interpretation . These we shall afterwards consider , but we may now observe , that those imputations which would fasten on the ...
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... Moses no where gives so weighty a rea- son against this crime , as he did against the other , when he said , " In the image of God made he man . " With regard to other unnatural crimes , they are made the subject of express prohibition ...
... Moses no where gives so weighty a rea- son against this crime , as he did against the other , when he said , " In the image of God made he man . " With regard to other unnatural crimes , they are made the subject of express prohibition ...
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... Moses , in the law , commanded us , that such should be stoned . " It is not necessary to explain the meaning of these punishments , their names sufficiently indicate the mode of their infliction . These are the parts of the Mosaic code ...
... Moses , in the law , commanded us , that such should be stoned . " It is not necessary to explain the meaning of these punishments , their names sufficiently indicate the mode of their infliction . These are the parts of the Mosaic code ...
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... Moses Zipporah , and thence conclude , that divorce was of an earlier date , and lawful on other accounts than those pre- scribed in the law of Moses ; but these in- stances prove quite otherwise on examination . Hagar was not a wife ...
... Moses Zipporah , and thence conclude , that divorce was of an earlier date , and lawful on other accounts than those pre- scribed in the law of Moses ; but these in- stances prove quite otherwise on examination . Hagar was not a wife ...
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... Moses again . Calmet affirms that Moses never divorced his wife at all . * Not one precedent of divorce can be found anterior to the Mosaic law . Afterwards , in- deed , they became lamentably frequent , and furnished one among the many ...
... Moses again . Calmet affirms that Moses never divorced his wife at all . * Not one precedent of divorce can be found anterior to the Mosaic law . Afterwards , in- deed , they became lamentably frequent , and furnished one among the many ...
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Page 84 - And he saith unto them, Whosoever shall put away his wife, and marry another, committeth adultery against her. 12 And if a woman shall put away her husband, and be married to another, she committeth adultery.
Page 80 - He saith unto them, Moses because of the hardness of your hearts suffered you to put away your wives: but from the beginning it was not so.
Page 24 - WHEN a man hath taken a wife, and married her, and it come to pass that she find no favour in his eyes, because he hath found some uncleanness in her : then let him write her a bill of divorcement, and give it in her hand, and send her out of his house.
Page 84 - And I say unto you, Whosoever shall put away his wife, except it be for fornication, and shall marry another, committeth adultery: and whoso marrieth her which is put away doth commit adultery.
Page 13 - If a man be found lying with a woman married to an husband, then they shall both of them die, both the man that lay with the woman, and the woman: so shalt thou put away evil from Israel.
Page 115 - But and if she depart, let her remain unmarried, or be reconciled to her husband: and let not the husband put away his wife.
Page 232 - For though in particular cases the repugnance of the law to dissolve the obligations of matrimonial cohabitation may operate with great severity upon individuals, yet it must be carefully remembered that the general happiness of the married life is secured by its indissolubility.
Page 233 - ... they become good husbands, and good wives, from the necessity of remaining husbands and wives; for necessity is a powerful master in teaching the duties which it imposes. If it were once understood, that upon mutual disgust married persons might be legally separated, many couples, who now pass through the world with mutual comfort, with attention to their common offspring and to the moral order of civil society, might have been at this moment living in a state of mutual unkindness, in a state...
Page 75 - But I say unto you, That whosoever shall put away his wife, saving for the cause of fornication, causeth her to commit adultery : and whosoever shall marry her that is divorced committeth adultery.