early church writers (ECW) on Marriage, Adultery, Divorce, Remarriage (MADR)

[Steven Avery]

Henri Crouzel

Marriage, Divorce and Remarriage In Church History
Steven Wolfgang (1990)
http://www.truthmagazine.com/archives/volume34/GOT034012.html

Matthew 1-7: A Continental Commentary (1992)
Ulrich Luz
https://books.google.com/books?id=E8dJA0jRB7QC&pg=PA308
(add pages) - p. 308

Dr John Rist: Cardinal Kasper’s new approach to the remarried has shaky historical foundations (2014)
John Rist
https://catholicismpure.wordpress.c...e-remarried-has-shaky-historical-foundations/
John Michael Rist (b. 1936)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Rist

The Indissolubility of Marriage: Amoris Laetitia in Context (2019)
by Matthew Levering
https://books.google.com/books?id=4TqtDwAAQBAJ
p. 31 37 55
https://books.google.com/books?id=4TqtDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA37

Facebook - Patristics for Protestants
https://www.facebook.com/groups/patristicsforprotestants/permalink/2065105623575222/?



Thanks for the two references. (Pollentius and Abrosiaster)
This paper by Henri Crouzel (1918-2003) looks like a very interesting review, Ambrosiaster and Pollentius are mentioned, without adding a modern liberal tinge
Divorce and Remarriage in the Early Church: Some Reflections on Historical Methodology
I had an earlier version of this with a url and Facebook jumped me with a spam concern (first time ever.) The paper is easy to find so I will try this way. Maybe Facebook did not like the domain.
And I am very interested in good references on the topic, especially those that avoid the "well you have to understand the different cultural context" syndrome. Crouzel does a good jobs like issues around some arguments from silence.

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Ulrich Luz (1838-2019)
Matthew : 1-7
http://books.google.com/books?id=E8dJA0jRB7QC
Summarized by :
The Indissolubility of Marriage: Amoris Laetitia in Context (2019)
Matthew Levering
https://books.google.com/books?id=4TqtDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA55
indissolubility
Shepherd of Hermas Justin, Athenagoras, Clement, Tertullian, Theodoret of Cyrus, Euthymius Zigaabenus, Hilary of Poitiers, Augustine, and Jerome, in addition to the councils of Elvira and Arles and the 12th-century Decretum Gratiani.
counterpont - possibly ok with dissolution
Origen, Pollentius Basil Epiphanius Ambrosiaster
See below, remove Origen
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Theodore G. Janiszewski
"Will the average reader have the wherewithal to track down the text Hart mentions in Origen’s Commentary on Matthew about some bishops permitting the divorced to remarry (it’s 14.23), to find that Origen condemns the practice (three times!) as “contrary to the Scriptures”?
David Bentley Hart
"I also never said Origen approved of divorce and remarriage. I said that he reports that many bishops in his time did allow it. "
Letters | Divorce and remarriage in the early church (2019)
https://www.commonwealmagazine.org/letters-divorce-and...
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Here is part of Ulrich Luz
https://books.google.com/books?id=E8dJA0jRB7QC&pg=PA308

 

[Steven Avery]

Sharon Fitzhenry

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Divorce and Remarriage: Early church position based on Scripture

Shepherd of Hermas (A.D. 90)
“If a husband divorces his wife because she is adulterous, he must not “marry” a second wife.”

Justin Martyr (A.D. 151)
“Whoever marries a divorced person commits Adultery. Those in an adulterous marriage are sinning against God.”

Clement of Alexandria (A.D. 208)
“A second “marriage” while a former spouse is alive, is living in a state of Adultery, which is expressly forbidden in Scripture.”

Origen (A.D. 248)
“A second “marriage” is not an actual marriage, but disguised Adultery.”

Basil the Great (A.D. 375)
“An adulterous relationship is continuous Adultery, not a one-time sin.”

Ambrose of Milan (A.D. 387)
“It is forbidden by God for a spouse to divorce and marry another.”

Jerome (A.D. 396)
“A marriage is for life, and no matter what a spouse turns out to be, the covenant remains in effect. God does not divide a one-flesh relationship.”

Augustine (A.D. 419)
“It never has been lawful, and it never will be, to divorce and marry another.”

Council of Carthage (a.k.a. African Code, A.D. 419)
“It was determined that, in accordance with Evangelical and Apostolic discipline, neither a man put away by his wife nor a woman put away by her husband may be united to another; but let them remain so, or be reconciled to each other.”

Scriptures written before 70 A.D.

Mark and Luke, Gospel To the Gentiles- No Exception Clause to Remarry mentioned.

Matthew, Gospel To the Jews- Exception Clause to put away for fornication was during the Jewish Betrothal. Joseph considered divorcing Mary for fornication before the wedding.

Mark 10:8-12(no exception) "And they twain shall be one flesh: so then they are no more twain, but one flesh. 9What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder….11And he saith unto them, Whosoever shall put away his wife, and marry another, committeth adultery against her. 12And if a woman shall put away her husband, and be married to another, she committeth adultery."

Luke 16:18(no exception) "Whosoever putteth away his wife, and marrieth another, committeth adultery: and whosoever marrieth her that is put away from her husband committeth adultery."

Matthew 5:31-32(exception) "It hath been said, Whosoever shall put away his wife, let him give her a writing of divorcement: 32But 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 It is important to use the entire phrase in Matthew 5:32, Except for a "WORD (speech, report, charge, Deut. 22:13-21) about fornication by a bride who committed virginity fraud while living in her father's house BEFORE the wedding.

Matthew 19:6-9, "Wherefore they are no more twain, but one flesh. What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder. 7They say unto him, Why did Moses then command to give a writing of divorcement, and to put her away? 8He 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. 9And 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."

1 Corinthians 6:9-11, “Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers.…shall inherit the kingdom of God. 11And such WERE some of you: but ye are washed, but ye are sanctified, but ye are justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and by the Spirit of our God."