Abandonment
Chap.1 Sect.3 Para.3. . . refusing conjugal rights, and abandonment. The Orthodox . . .

Abbreviated
Chap.1 Sect.1 Para.3. . . Luke omitted them when they abbreviated Matthew. I will . . .
Chap.1 Sect.1 Para.3. . . phrases to an originally abbreviated account, and that . . .
Chap.2 Sect.2 Para.1. . . love and respect, but the abbreviated Gospel accounts . . .
Chap.2 Sect.4 Para.2. . . the debate about divorce. The abbreviated account in Sifré ( . . .
Chap.2 Sect.4 Para.2. . . Debate' above) is further abbreviated in Mishnah Gittin: . . .

Abbreviation
Chap.2 Sect.4 Para.2. . . rabbinic debates used similar abbreviation. This is seen . . .

Abbreviations
Chap.2 Sect.4 Para.1. . . Despite the very substantial abbreviations, this was still . . .
Chap.2 Sect.4 Para.2. . . adultery./We should expect abbreviations in the Gospel . . .

Abhorrence
Chap.2 Sect.1 Para.1. . . to understand Paul's abhorrence of women who . . .

Abrahams
Chap.1 Sect.4 Para.9. . . violence./A suggestion by I. Abrahams and others which was . . .

Abstain
Chap.3 Sect.2 Para.2. . . how long a couple could abstain from conjugal . . .

Abuse
Chap.1 Sect.4 Para.1. . . physical and emotional abuse. Some have done this by . . .
Chap.2 Sect.5 Para.5. . . to physical or emotional abuse./A husband had to . . .
Chap.5 Sect.2.1 Para.4. . . physical and emotional abuse within their marriage. . . .
Chap.5 Sect.2.2 Para.1. . . , material neglect or abuse and emotional neglect or . . .
Chap.5 Sect.2.2 Para.1. . . and emotional neglect or abuse, which were affirmed by . . .
Chap.5 Sect.2.2 Para.2. . . of believers suffering abuse within marriages or . . .

Accepted
Chap.1 Sect.4 Para.8. . . . However, it is generally accepted that the rabbinic . . .
Chap.2 Sect.4 Para.8. . . of Judaism in the 1st century accepted. We will now look at . . .
Chap.2 Sect.7 Para.1. . . 'Any Matter' divorces and accepted divorce for adultery, . . .
Chap.2 Sect.7 Para.1. . . for divorce which were accepted by both the . . .
Chap.2 Sect.7 Para.2. . . and all other Jews, accepted the validity of . . .

Accordance
Chap.3 Sect.3 Para.5. . . divorce for adultery, in accordance with Jewish law, . . .

According
Chap.1 Sect.4 Para.8. . . , which occurred in 30 C.E., according to rabbinic . . .
Chap.5 Sect.2.2 Para.1. . . affirmed by Jesus and Paul (according to this study)?/The . . .
Chap.5 Sect.2.5 Para.6. . . particularly poignant and, according to some couples, . . .

Account
Chap.1 Sect.1 Para.3. . . to an originally abbreviated account, and that any 1st . . .
Chap.2 Sect.1 Para.2. . . extra phrases in Matthew's account refer to a debate . . .
Chap.2 Sect.1 Para.5. . . these two summaries to his account, implying that the . . .
Chap.2 Sect.1 Para.7. . . to add these phrases to his account, because any 1st . . .
Chap.2 Sect.3 Para.1. . . original readers of the older account in Mark and Luke did . . .
Chap.2 Sect.4 Para.2. . . abbreviations in the Gospel account of the debate because . . .
Chap.2 Sect.4 Para.2. . . divorce. The abbreviated account in Sifré (which was . . .
Chap.2 Sect.4 Para.4. . . matter [Dt.24.1]."/The later account in the Jerusalem . . .
Chap.2 Sect.4 Para.6. . . subject to dispute, and an account of a debate only needs . . .

Accounts
Chap.2 Sect.1 Para.10. . . context of the Gospel accounts was therefore lost to . . .
Chap.2 Sect.2 Para.1. . . , but the abbreviated Gospel accounts would not be expected . . .
Chap.2 Sect.4 Para.1. . . The Shorter Accounts: The shortest summary . . .
Chap.2 Sect.4 Para.6. . . could have added to their accounts of this debate, . . .

Accurate
Chap.1 Sect.4 Para.8. . . traditions are unlikely to be accurate in this case, and . . .

Accusations
Chap.2 Sect.5 Para.1. . . entailed embarrassing public accusations. The 'Any Matter' . . .

Acquaint
Chap.2 Sect.7 Para.3. . . looking at Paul, we must acquaint ourselves with the . . .

Act
Chap.5 Sect.2.1 Para.2. . . in The Matrimonial Causes Act 1937, which also made . . .
Chap.5 Sect.2.1 Para.2. . . in the Divorce Reform Act 1969 which defined . . .
Chap.5 Sect.2.1 Para.2. . . separation. The Family Law Act of 1996 attempted to . . .

Add
Chap.1 Sect.1 Para.3. . . them, just as we mentally add the word 'cigarettes' to . . .
Chap.2 Sect.1 Para.7. . . "./Matthew was correct to add these phrases to his . . .
Chap.2 Sect.1 Para.8. . . ". It would be superfluous to add the words 'alcoholic . . .
Chap.2 Sect.1 Para.8. . . any 1st century Jew would add the obvious words "on the . . .

Added
Chap.1 Sect.1 Para.3. . . think that Matthew added these phrases, while . . .
Chap.1 Sect.1 Para.3. . . . I will argue that Matthew added these phrases to an . . .
Chap.1 Sect.1 Para.3. . . reader would have mentally added them, just as we . . .
Chap.1 Sect.1 Para.4. . . , most translations have added words such as 'in the . . .
Chap.1 Sect.1 Para.4. . . of the text, so I have not added them./I have used . . .
Chap.1 Sect.4 Para.3. . . Matthew or the church later added the exception for . . .
Chap.1 Sect.4 Para.8. . . could not be divorced, so he added the exception in the . . .
Chap.1 Sect.4 Para.10. . . teaching, or he has correctly added the words which were . . .
Chap.2 Sect.1 Para.5. . . except Indecency'. Matthew added these two summaries to . . .
Chap.2 Sect.4 Para.6. . . traditions could have added to their accounts of . . .
Chap.4 Sect.1 Para.2. . . only meant 'Indecency'. He added that if anyone got . . .

Addition
Chap.1 Sect.4 Para.6. . . make sense without Matthew's addition if the Pharisees knew . . .

Additions
Chap.1 Sect.4 Para.6. . . tried to show that Matthew's additions were implied by . . .
Chap.1 Sect.4 Para.10. . . meaningful without Matthew's additions. They have also . . .
Chap.1 Sect.4 Para.10. . . failed to show how Matthew's additions could concur with a . . .
Chap.2 Sect.3 Para.1. . . these Gospels some editorial additions such as those in . . .
Chap.5 Sect.1 Para.7. . . the my trouthe./Most of these additions have survived, . . .

Addressed
Chap.2 Sect.4 Para.7. . . things because they were addressed to a non-Jewish . . .

Addressing
Chap.2 Sect.7 Para.3. . . with the culture which he was addressing./ . . .

Adds
Chap.5 Sect.1 Para.5. . . of the the Use of Sarum adds to these basic vows by . . .

Administrative
Chap.3 Sect.4 Para.3. . . similar wording and similar administrative procedures. . . .

Adulterers
Chap.1 Sect.4 Para.8. . . that Matthew was aware that adulterers would go unpunished . . .
Chap.1 Sect.4 Para.8. . . traditions suggest that few adulterers, if any, were . . .

Adultery
Chap.1 Sect.1 Para.2. . . and marries another, commits adultery."/The two phrases . . .
Chap.1 Sect.1 Para.4. . . 'except in the case of adultery' or 'except on the . . .
Chap.1 Sect.3 Para.1. . . was usually interpreted as 'adultery') and perhaps for . . .
Chap.1 Sect.3 Para.1. . . was usually interpreted as 'adultery') and perhaps for . . .
Chap.1 Sect.3 Para.1. . . remarriage was equivalent to adultery. This meant that a . . .
Chap.1 Sect.4 Para.6. . . that Matthew's exception for adultery was not uttered or . . .
Chap.1 Sect.4 Para.7. . . , especially prostitution and adultery. Therefore, if Jesus . . .
Chap.1 Sect.4 Para.8. . . apply the death penalty for adultery, as the Old Testament . . .
Chap.1 Sect.4 Para.8. . . allow divorce in the case of adultery, because the marriage . . .
Chap.1 Sect.4 Para.9. . . Jesus allowed divorce for adultery because it was, in . . .
Chap.1 Sect.4 Para.9. . . exception because divorce for adultery was not compulsory . . .
Chap.1 Sect.4 Para.9. . . , divorce was compulsory for adultery in Graeco-Roman law, . . .
Chap.2 Sect.1 Para.6. . . another, they are committing adultery"./Matthew was correct . . .
Chap.2 Sect.2 Para.4. . . when she repeatedly committed adultery with the idols, and . . .
Chap.2 Sect.2 Para.5. . . Marriage should even survive adultery, when possible. The . . .
Chap.2 Sect.2 Para.5. . . make divorce compulsory after adultery. Jesus wanted to . . .
Chap.2 Sect.2 Para.5. . . them, even in the case of adultery./5) Marriage is not . . .
Chap.2 Sect.3 Para.4. . . they were actually committing adultery./ . . .
Chap.2 Sect.4 Para.1. . . and remarried was committing adultery. Despite the very . . .
Chap.2 Sect.4 Para.1. . . who remarried had committed adultery./We should expect . . .
Chap.2 Sect.5 Para.3. . . 1: 'an indecent matter', i.e. adultery (as discussed above). . . .
Chap.2 Sect.6 Para.2. . . with whom she also committed adultery (Ezek.16.16-19). . . .
Chap.2 Sect.7 Para.1. . . and accepted divorce for adultery, but what did he . . .
Chap.3 Sect.3 Para.5. . . he also allowed divorce for adultery, in accordance with . . .
Chap.4 Sect.1 Para.2. . . , so they were committing adultery if they remarried./ . . .
Chap.4 Sect.3 Para.2. . . condemned all remarriage as adultery. The Jewish . . .
Chap.5 Sect.2.1 Para.2. . . , get a divorce for adultery. New grounds or . . .
Chap.5 Sect.2.1 Para.2. . . a series of 'proofs' such as adultery, desertion, cruelty . . .
Chap.5 Sect.2.2 Para.2. . . )?/The 'traditional' grounds (adultery and desertion by an . . .
Chap.5 Sect.2.3 Para.2. . . was technically committing adultery. Paul, on the other . . .
Chap.5 Sect.2.3 Para.4. . . a person who mentally commits adultery is guilty of actual . . .
Chap.5 Sect.2.3 Para.4. . . adultery is guilty of actual adultery. Presumably mental . . .
Chap.5 Sect.2.3 Para.4. . . adultery. Presumably mental adultery was not a literal . . .
Chap.5 Sect.2.3 Para.4. . . divorce. Similarly technical adultery, due to an invalid . . .

Advances
Chap.5 Sect.3 Para.1. . . Conclusions: Recent advances in our understanding . . .

Advantages
Chap.5 Sect.2.2 Para.2. . . by an unbeliever) have the advantages of being the . . .

Advocating
Chap.3 Sect.3 Para.1. . . believers at Corinth were advocating. He also made some . . .

Affirm
Chap.3 Sect.3 Para.6. . . grounds for divorce, he did affirm them as obligations . . .

Affirmed
Chap.5 Sect.1 Para.8. . . Old Testament vows which were affirmed by Jesus and Paul, . . .
Chap.5 Sect.2.2 Para.1. . . neglect or abuse, which were affirmed by Jesus and Paul ( . . .
Chap.5 Sect.3 Para.1. . . and emotional neglect. Jesus affirmed the first ground and . . .
Chap.5 Sect.3 Para.1. . . the first ground and Paul affirmed the others. They also . . .

Alcoholic
Chap.2 Sect.1 Para.8. . . superfluous to add the words 'alcoholic beverages', even . . .
Chap.2 Sect.1 Para.8. . . superfluous to add the words 'alcoholic beverages', even . . .

Alliterative
Chap.5 Sect.1 Para.7. . . , except the wonderfully alliterative 'be bonny and . . .

Amalgamation
Chap.5 Sect.1 Para.2. . . of Salisbury. This is an amalgamation of the ancient . . .

Ambiguous
Chap.3 Sect.4 Para.1. . . . However, the context is ambiguous, and the person may . . .
Chap.3 Sect.4 Para.2. . . 'no longer enslaved' is also ambiguous for a modern reader, . . .

Ambrosiaster
Chap.1 Sect.3 Para.1. . . a few, such as Tertullian and Ambrosiaster, appeared to . . .

Amen
Chap.5 Sect.2.5 Para.4. . . promises which I will make. Amen./Minister: (A prayer for . . .

Amount
Chap.3 Sect.2 Para.3. . . Pharisees discussed the exact amount of food and clothing . . .
Chap.3 Sect.2 Para.3. . . man had to provide, and the amount of sewing and cooking . . .

Ancient
Chap.2 Sect.1 Para.1. . . one realizes that this was an ancient equivalent of going . . .
Chap.2 Sect.6 Para.2. . . quoted as such in several ancient Jewish marriage . . .
Chap.5 Sect.1 Para.2. . . is an amalgamation of the ancient Latin and early . . .
Chap.5 Sect.1 Para.4. . . 'love, nourish and cherish'). Ancient Jewish marriage . . .
Chap.5 Sect.1 Para.8. . . services are based on this ancient Latin and early . . .

Andrew
Chap.1 Sect.4 Para.9. . . Wenham, and more recently by Andrew Cornes, was that Jesus . . .

Anglican
Chap.5 Sect.2.1 Para.2. . . and easier process. The Anglican Church report Putting . . .

Annulment
Chap.1 Sect.3 Para.4. . . it much easier to seek an annulment, which means that . . .

Answer
Chap.1 Sect.4 Para.4. . . wife?' This should prompt the answer: 'Of course, because . . .
Chap.2 Sect.2 Para.1. . . , he did not immediately answer the question. He used . . .

Answered
Chap.1 Sect.1 Para.2. . . for 'Any Matter'?" (4) He answered, "Have you not read . . .
Chap.1 Sect.2 Para.1. . . in 1 Corinthians 7 where he answered those who wanted to . . .

Answering
Chap.2 Sect.3 Para.1. . . made it clear that Jesus was answering a question . . .

Answers
Chap.5 Sect.2.3 Para.2. . . appears to give different answers. Jesus said that a . . .

Apostolic
Chap.5 Sect.2 Para.3. . . as the Trinity, the Mass, Apostolic succession and, more . . .

Appealed
Chap.3 Sect.3 Para.2. . . from their spouse. He appealed to the teaching of . . .

Appearances
Chap.2 Sect.5 Para.1. . . require any proof or court appearances so they soon . . .

Appeared
Chap.1 Sect.3 Para.1. . . Tertullian and Ambrosiaster, appeared to allow remarriage . . .

Appears
Chap.5 Sect.2.3 Para.2. . . ?/Jesus' and Paul's teaching appears to give different . . .

Applied
Chap.2 Sect.5 Para.4. . . ground for divorce, and they applied it also to blemishes . . .
Chap.3 Sect.2 Para.4. . . ) though this presumably also applied to any other single . . .
Chap.4 Sect.3 Para.2. . . but the churches have not yet applied this insight to . . .

Apply
Chap.1 Sect.4 Para.8. . . still had the authority to apply the death penalty for . . .
Chap.5 Sect.2 Para.1. . . , it is not easy to apply the 1st century . . .
Chap.5 Sect.2 Para.2. . . century church./Before we can apply the New Testament, we . . .

Applying
Chap.5 Sect.1 Para.1. . . Ch.5 Applying The 1st Century To . . .

Approach
Chap.3 Sect.2 Para.3. . . his back on this legalistic approach. Instead of speaking . . .

Apt
Chap.3 Sect.4 Para.3. . . enslaved' is especially apt to a divorce certificate . . .

Argue
Chap.1 Sect.1 Para.3. . . abbreviated Matthew. I will argue that Matthew added these . . .
Chap.2 Sect.7 Para.1. . . divorce? It is possible to argue that he agreed with . . .

Argued
Chap.1 Sect.3 Para.2. . . as refined by Augustine who argued that marriage was a . . .
Chap.1 Sect.4 Para.8. . . very clear./R. H. Charles argued that Jesus presented . . .
Chap.2 Sect.5 Para.5. . . a second wife. The lawyers argued that if a slave wife . . .
Chap.3 Sect.4 Para.2. . . . Modern interpreters have argued whether it means a . . .
Chap.5 Sect.2.3 Para.3. . . of peace'. Paul could have argued that the deserted . . .

Argument
Chap.2 Sect.7 Para.1. . . be silent on this matter. An argument from silence is . . .
Chap.5 Sect.2.4 Para.3. . . is only the indissolubility argument which makes it . . .

Arise
Chap.5 Sect.2 Para.4. . . ./Several practical questions arise from this study, a few . . .

Ascertain
Chap.5 Sect.2.5 Para.3. . . God. I have never tried to ascertain whether a divorcee . . .

Asleep
Chap.1 Sect.2 Para.4. . . if the husband should fall asleep, she is free to be . . .

Aspects
Chap.2 Sect.2 Para.1. . . also have taught about other aspects of marriage where he . . .

Assume
Chap.1 Sect.4 Para.3. . . divorce./Scholars generally assume that Mark's version is . . .
Chap.3 Sect.4 Para.5. . . reader would therefore assume that he was speaking . . .

Assumed
Chap.2 Sect.2 Para.2. . . allowed polygamy (it is assumed in Exod.21.10, Deut.21 . . .

Asunder
Chap.5 Sect.2.1 Para.2. . . Church report Putting Asunder recommended that the . . .

Atkinson
Chap.1 Sect.4 Para.2. . . strict regulations./David Atkinson broadened Jesus' . . .

Attempt
Chap.1 Sect.2 Para.1. . . initiate a divorce and should attempt reconciliation. . . .
Chap.3 Sect.3 Para.3. . . , they should attempt to reverse it (1Cor.7. . . .
Chap.4 Sect.2 Para.2. . . separated that they must attempt a reconciliation. . . .

Attempted
Chap.5 Sect.2.1 Para.2. . . . The Family Law Act of 1996 attempted to remove the need . . .

Attempting
Chap.5 Sect.2 Para.2. . . church been very cautious in attempting a . . .

Attempts
Chap.2 Sect.2 Para.4. . . below) but only after many attempts to get her to repent. . . .

Augustine
Chap.1 Sect.3 Para.1. . . the middle second century to Augustine in the fifth century . . .
Chap.1 Sect.3 Para.2. . . interpretation as refined by Augustine who argued that . . .
Chap.5 Sect.2.4 Para.3. . . innocent partner, and even Augustine said that such . . .

Author
Chap.1 Sect.2 Para.5. . . 'divorce'. Paul, like any author, used a variety of . . .

Authority
Chap.1 Sect.4 Para.8. . . while the Jews still had the authority to apply the death p . . .
Chap.2 Sect.1 Para.9. . . because everyone in authority was Hillelite./The . . .
Chap.3 Sect.2 Para.2. . . language of 'service' and 'authority' is reminiscent of . . .
Chap.3 Sect.2 Para.2. . . language of 'service' and 'authority' is reminiscent of . . .
Chap.5 Sect.2 Para.2. . . raises questions about the authority of Scripture and . . .

Automatic
Chap.3 Sect.1 Para.3. . . had a valid divorce had an automatic right to remarry. In . . .

Avoided
Chap.2 Sect.2 Para.3. . . , so divorce should be avoided if at all possible./3) . . .
Chap.4 Sect.3 Para.1. . . , and that divorce should be avoided whenever possible. A . . .
Chap.5 Sect.1 Para.4. . . marriage contracts also avoided legalistic language, . . .

Aware
Chap.1 Sect.4 Para.8. . . . He said that Matthew was aware that adulterers would go . . .