Qtemple
Chap.1 Sect.4 Para.5. . . they relied on (CD.4.20f; 11QTemple 57.15-19) are now . . .

Question
Chap.1 Sect.4 Para.4. . . that it makes the Pharisees' question relatively . . .
Chap.1 Sect.4 Para.5. . . refer to in the debate./The question might make sense, . . .
Chap.1 Sect.4 Para.6. . . divorce or remarriage./The question would also make sense . . .
Chap.1 Sect.4 Para.6. . . all divorce, because the question would be one way to . . .
Chap.1 Sect.4 Para.10. . . in which the Pharisee's question would be meaningful . . .
Chap.2 Sect.1 Para.8. . . beverages', even though the question is meaningless . . .
Chap.2 Sect.1 Para.8. . . without them. Similarly, the question "Is it lawful for a . . .
Chap.2 Sect.1 Para.9. . . a Hillelite. After 70 CE the question had no further . . .
Chap.2 Sect.2 Para.1. . . not immediately answer the question. He used the occasion . . .
Chap.2 Sect.3 Para.1. . . brought Jesus back to their question. Whilst Matthew made . . .
Chap.2 Sect.3 Para.1. . . that Jesus was answering a question concerning the . . .

Questions
Chap.5 Sect.2 Para.2. . . recipients. This raises questions about the authority . . .
Chap.5 Sect.2 Para.4. . . morality./Several practical questions arise from this . . .

Quickly
Chap.4 Sect.1 Para.1. . . called 'Any Matter', which quickly become the basis for . . .

Quo
Chap.2 Sect.4 Para.7. . . disagreed with the status quo, the Gospels record his . . .

Quoted
Chap.2 Sect.6 Para.2. . . and they were specifically quoted as such in several . . .

Quotes
Chap.3 Sect.4 Para.4. . . marry any man you wish'. Paul quotes these words in 1Cor.7.3 . . .

Rabbinic
Chap.1 Sect.4 Para.8. . . in 30 C.E., according to rabbinic traditions. He said . . .
Chap.1 Sect.4 Para.8. . . generally accepted that the rabbinic traditions are . . .
Chap.1 Sect.4 Para.8. . . of Palestine began. Also, rabbinic traditions suggest . . .
Chap.2 Sect.1 Para.2. . . interpreted as 'Indecency'. Rabbinic traditions recorded a . . .
Chap.2 Sect.1 Para.10. . . in the legal records of early rabbinic scholars./ . . .
Chap.2 Sect.2 Para.6. . . a celibate life - whereas Rabbinic Judaism taught that . . .
Chap.2 Sect.4 Para.2. . . is clearly not verbatim and rabbinic debates used similar . . .
Chap.2 Sect.4 Para.6. . . more which Matthew and the rabbinic traditions could have . . .
Chap.2 Sect.4 Para.8. . . ./The same was true for rabbinic debates, which only . . .
Chap.5 Sect.2.3 Para.3. . . referring to the technical rabbinic phrase 'for the sake . . .

Raises
Chap.5 Sect.2 Para.2. . . its original recipients. This raises questions about the . . .

Range
Chap.1 Sect.1 Para.4. . . because this has a very wide range of meanings, including . . .

Ranging
Chap.1 Sect.1 Para.4. . . is similarly vague and wide ranging. Secondly, most . . .

Read
Chap.1 Sect.1 Para.2. . . 4) He answered, "Have you not read that he who created them . . .
Chap.2 Sect.1 Para.1. . . Testament, we often have to read it through the worldview . . .
Chap.5 Sect.2 Para.2. . . the New Testament, we have to read it in its cultural . . .
Chap.5 Sect.3 Para.1. . . world means that we can now read the divorce and . . .

Reader
Chap.1 Sect.1 Para.3. . . , and that any 1st century reader would have mentally . . .
Chap.1 Sect.1 Para.5. . . in the way that a 1st century reader would have understood . . .
Chap.1 Sect.2 Para.5. . . we must ask how a 1st century reader would understand it./It . . .
Chap.1 Sect.4 Para.10. . . implicit for any 1st century reader. We will now examine . . .
Chap.1 Sect.4 Para.10. . . now examine how a 1st century reader would have understood . . .
Chap.2 Sect.1 Para.7. . . any 1st century Jewish reader would have mentally . . .
Chap.3 Sect.4 Para.2. . . also ambiguous for a modern reader, though it would have . . .
Chap.3 Sect.4 Para.2. . . one meaning for a 1st century reader. Modern interpreters . . .
Chap.3 Sect.4 Para.2. . . it. Also, to a 1st century reader, the phrase would . . .
Chap.3 Sect.4 Para.5. . . been deserted, a 1st century reader would therefore assume . . .
Chap.3 Sect.6 Para.7. . . wives./An early Graeco-Roman reader, however, would . . .
Chap.5 Sect.2 Para.2. . . have found that a 1st century reader would have a different . . .
Chap.5 Sect.2 Para.2. . . to that of a modern reader. This conclusion can be . . .

Readers
Chap.1 Sect.1 Para.5. . . a divorcee. As 21st century readers, we are likely to . . .
Chap.2 Sect.3 Para.1. . . of Deut.24.1, the original readers of the older account . . .
Chap.4 Sect.1 Para.1. . . st century Jewish hearers and readers of Jesus' words came . . .
Chap.4 Sect.2 Para.3. . . is allowed, though his readers did not really need . . .

Reading
Chap.5 Sect.2.2 Para.2. . . of being the 'plain' reading of the text, as well . . .
Chap.5 Sect.3 Para.4. . . in some way./Further Reading: For further reading, . . .
Chap.5 Sect.3 Para.4. . . /Further Reading: For further reading, see my Divorce and . . .

Reads
Chap.2 Sect.4 Para.8. . . the two sides. When one reads the debate about divorce . . .

Realizes
Chap.2 Sect.1 Para.1. . . heads in public unless one realizes that this was an . . .

Reason
Chap.1 Sect.1 Para.2. . . .1.27] (5) and said, For this reason a man shall leave his . . .
Chap.1 Sect.1 Para.4. . . if he allowed divorce for any reason at all. The phrase . . .
Chap.3 Sect.1 Para.2. . . . Neither party had to give a reason for ending the marriage . . .
Chap.3 Sect.2 Para.2. . . Paul is concerned about the reason for separation. He said . . .
Chap.5 Sect.2.3 Para.3. . . ./Paul does not give any reason except: 'God has called . . .

Reasons
Chap.1 Sect.3 Para.4. . . others allow divorce for reasons which are not . . .

Received
Chap.5 Sect.2.5 Para.6. . . /This has been extremely well received, especially by those . . .

Recent
Chap.1 Sect.4 Para.9. . . initiate divorce. However, a recent papyrus has shown that . . .
Chap.5 Sect.3 Para.1. . . Conclusions: Recent advances in our . . .

Recently
Chap.1 Sect.3 Para.4. . . . The Catholic church has recently made it much easier . . .
Chap.1 Sect.4 Para.9. . . and Gordon Wenham, and more recently by Andrew Cornes, was . . .
Chap.5 Sect.2 Para.3. . . succession and, more recently, female leadership, . . .

Recipients
Chap.5 Sect.2 Para.2. . . what it meant to its original recipients. This raises . . .

Recognized
Chap.1 Sect.3 Para.3. . . State deal with divorce, and recognized that divorced . . .
Chap.2 Sect.1 Para.2. . . century, most scholars have recognized that the extra . . .
Chap.4 Sect.1 Para.1. . . .21.10f), and that these were recognized as the vows . . .
Chap.4 Sect.2 Para.2. . . a reconciliation. However, he recognized that if they had . . .

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

Reconciled
Chap.1 Sect.2 Para.2. . . unmarried, or she ought to be reconciled to her husband); . . .
Chap.3 Sect.3 Para.3. . . point in telling her to be reconciled./3) If they have be . . .
Chap.5 Sect.3 Para.1. . . should always forgive and be reconciled to a repentant . . .

Reconciliation
Chap.1 Sect.2 Para.1. . . a divorce and should attempt reconciliation. However, if an . . .
Chap.4 Sect.2 Para.2. . . that they must attempt a reconciliation. However, he . . .
Chap.5 Sect.2.3 Para.5. . . remarried they should seek reconciliation. However, if . . .

Records
Chap.2 Sect.1 Para.10. . . it was preserved in the legal records of early rabbinic . . .

Redaction
Chap.2 Sect.3 Para.1. . . , by the time of the final redaction of these Gospels . . .

Rediscovered
Chap.4 Sect.3 Para.2. . . teaching was partially rediscovered in the mid 1800s. . . .

Refined
Chap.1 Sect.3 Para.2. . . traditional interpretation as refined by Augustine who . . .

Reflexive
Chap.3 Sect.3 Para.3. . . mean 'has separated herself' (reflexive). The reflexive . . .
Chap.3 Sect.3 Para.3. . . herself' (reflexive). The reflexive makes more sense . . .

Reform
Chap.5 Sect.2.1 Para.2. . . implemented in the Divorce Reform Act 1969 which defined . . .

Reformers
Chap.1 Sect.3 Para.3. . . are irreversible./Some Reformers, such as Erasmus and . . .
Chap.5 Sect.2.4 Para.3. . . divorce. Virtually all the Reformers allowed remarriage . . .

Refusal
Chap.2 Sect.2 Para.4. . . when there is a hard-hearted refusal to repent. This agrees . . .

Refused
Chap.2 Sect.2 Para.4. . . the idols, and stubbornly refused to repent. The Old . . .
Chap.2 Sect.6 Para.2. . . said that Israel stubbornly refused to repent, and he . . .

Refusing
Chap.1 Sect.3 Para.3. . . divorce for grounds such as refusing conjugal rights, and . . .

Regulations
Chap.1 Sect.4 Para.1. . . principles rather than strict regulations./David Atkinson . . .

Rehearsal
Chap.5 Sect.2.5 Para.6. . . occurs after the wedding rehearsal, in the same place . . .

Re-interpretation
Chap.5 Sect.2 Para.2. . . very cautious in attempting a re-interpretation of . . .

Rejected
Chap.2 Sect.5 Para.4. . . to their partner. Jesus rejected this ground for . . .

Relation
Chap.3 Sect.6 Para.1. . . 'woman of one man' occurs in relation to widos (1 Tim.5.9). . . .

Relations
Chap.1 Sect.2 Para.1. . . who wanted to limit sexual relations within marriage and . . .
Chap.1 Sect.2 Para.1. . . partners. He said that sexual relations are an obligation . . .
Chap.3 Sect.2 Para.2. . . could abstain from conjugal relations on the basis of this . . .

Relatively
Chap.1 Sect.4 Para.4. . . makes the Pharisees' question relatively meaningless. They . . .
Chap.3 Sect.6 Para.7. . . throughout their lives. This relatively rare faithfulness . . .

Religious
Chap.2 Sect.1 Para.9. . . , who took over all legal and religious institutions. Before . . .

Reluctantly
Chap.2 Sect.2 Para.4. . . . However, divorce is reluctantly permitted when . . .

Remarriage
Chap.1 Sect.3 Para.1. . . partner died, which was why remarriage was equivalent to . . .
Chap.1 Sect.3 Para.1. . . , appeared to allow remarriage for innocent . . .
Chap.1 Sect.3 Para.3. . . Erasmus and Luther, allowed remarriage of a divorcee . . .
Chap.1 Sect.3 Para.3. . . marriages were 'dead' so that remarriage could take place./ . . .
Chap.1 Sect.3 Para.4. . . marriage will not really be remarriage. Other churches . . .
Chap.1 Sect.4 Para.5. . . which forbade all divorce and remarriage, so that the . . .
Chap.1 Sect.4 Para.5. . . polygamy and not divorce or remarriage./The question would . . .
Chap.1 Sect.4 Para.7. . . , so that Jesus allowed remarriage only for those who . . .
Chap.3 Sect.1 Para.3. . . to divorce./In the matter of remarriage, the Graeco-Roman . . .
Chap.3 Sect.3 Para.4. . . . Whether or not this implies remarriage (see below), their . . .
Chap.3 Sect.4 Para.1. . . Paul on Remarriage: Some commentators . . .
Chap.3 Sect.4 Para.1. . . have found a reference to remarriage in 1Cor.7.27 where . . .
Chap.3 Sect.4 Para.4. . . right of a widow to remarry. Remarriage was a fundamental . . .
Chap.3 Sect.5 Para.1. . . No remarriage till death occurs?: . . .
Chap.4 Sect.1 Para.1. . . to the subject of divorce and remarriage with several . . .
Chap.4 Sect.1 Para.1. . . learned from Scripture that remarriage was allowed after . . .
Chap.4 Sect.2 Para.3. . . as Paul got to stating that remarriage is allowed, though . . .
Chap.4 Sect.2 Para.3. . . need Paul's permission. Remarriage was such a firmly . . .
Chap.4 Sect.2 Para.3. . . the law if he had forbidden remarriage./ . . .
Chap.4 Sect.3 Para.2. . . that Jesus condemned all remarriage as adultery. The . . .
Chap.5 Sect.2 Para.3. . . the doctrine of divorce and remarriage, though it might be . . .
Chap.5 Sect.2.3 Para.4. . . the logical outcome of remarriage after an invalid . . .
Chap.5 Sect.2.4 Para.1. . . Should the church allow remarriage of 'innocent' . . .
Chap.5 Sect.2.4 Para.3. . . all the Reformers allowed remarriage for the innocent . . .
Chap.5 Sect.2.4 Para.3. . . even Augustine said that such remarriage was 'not a grave . . .
Chap.5 Sect.2.5 Para.1. . . Should the church allow remarriage of 'guilty' . . .
Chap.5 Sect.3 Para.1. . . can now read the divorce and remarriage texts through the . . .
Chap.5 Sect.3 Para.1. . . the others. They also allowed remarriage after a valid . . .
Chap.5 Sect.3 Para.3. . . encouraged to forgive them. Remarriage is possible after a . . .
Chap.5 Sect.3 Para.4. . . reading, see my Divorce and Remarriage in the Bible ( . . .

Remarriages
Chap.5 Sect.2.4 Para.2. . . instances of Christian remarriages after divorce for . . .

Remarried
Chap.2 Sect.3 Para.4. . . married. Therefore, if they remarried they were actually . . .
Chap.2 Sect.4 Para.1. . . that anyone who divorced and remarried was committing . . .
Chap.2 Sect.4 Para.1. . . were invalid, and anyone who remarried had committed . . .
Chap.3 Sect.6 Para.6. . . of marriage is correct, a remarried person is still . . .
Chap.3 Sect.6 Para.8. . . , or that they must not be remarried, but that they had . . .
Chap.4 Sect.1 Para.2. . . committing adultery if they remarried./Jesus also . . .
Chap.5 Sect.2.3 Para.1. . . Should those who remarried after an invalid . . .
Chap.5 Sect.2.3 Para.2. . . Jesus said that a person who remarried after an invalid . . .
Chap.5 Sect.2.3 Para.5. . . and if neither partners have remarried they should seek . . .
Chap.5 Sect.2.3 Para.5. . . , if either partner has remarried, they should not . . .
Chap.5 Sect.2.5 Para.3. . . ./In pastoral practice I have remarried divorcees only on . . .

Remarry
Chap.1 Sect.3 Para.1. . . that a divorcee could not remarry till a former spouse . . .
Chap.3 Sect.1 Para.3. . . had an automatic right to remarry. In fact the main . . .
Chap.3 Sect.1 Para.3. . . , either partner was free to remarry./ . . .
Chap.3 Sect.4 Para.2. . . whether it means a freedom to remarry or merely the freedom . . .
Chap.3 Sect.4 Para.4. . . the right of a widow to remarry. Remarriage was a . . .
Chap.3 Sect.4 Para.5. . . about their freedom to remarry. In fact this was so . . .
Chap.3 Sect.6 Para.4. . . polygamist, or/c) he must not remarry till his ex-wife has . . .
Chap.3 Sect.6 Para.6. . . that they were forbidden to remarry, because the Pastorals . . .
Chap.5 Sect.2.3 Para.1. . . get divorced again and remarry their original spouse? . . .
Chap.5 Sect.2.4 Para.2. . . of 'innocent' divorcees to remarry has been a constant . . .
Chap.5 Sect.2.4 Para.3. . . for an innocent divorcee to remarry. As shown above, the . . .
Chap.5 Sect.2.5 Para.2. . . , if only the 'innocent' can remarry, this implies that . . .
Chap.5 Sect.2.5 Para.2. . . , if the church decides to remarry only the 'innocent', . . .
Chap.5 Sect.3 Para.2. . . , without the right to remarry), has caused great . . .

Remarrying
Chap.3 Sect.6 Para.6. . . have suggested it might mean remarrying while a former . . .
Chap.5 Sect.2.5 Para.2. . . who used 'no-fault' divorces?/Remarrying a 'guilty' divorcee . . .

Reminiscent
Chap.3 Sect.2 Para.2. . . 'service' and 'authority' is reminiscent of Exodus 21.10f, . . .

Repayment
Chap.1 Sect.4 Para.3. . . cheek' and 'do not ask for repayment'./One difficulty . . .

Repeatedly
Chap.2 Sect.2 Para.4. . . 'hard-hearted' wife when she repeatedly committed adultery . . .
Chap.4 Sect.1 Para.1. . . occurred when these vows were repeatedly and stubbornly . . .

Repent
Chap.2 Sect.2 Para.4. . . , and stubbornly refused to repent. The Old Testament . . .
Chap.2 Sect.2 Para.4. . . many attempts to get her to repent. Presumably Jesus meant . . .
Chap.2 Sect.2 Para.4. . . is a hard-hearted refusal to repent. This agrees with . . .
Chap.2 Sect.2 Para.4. . . we should forgive those who repent (Luke 17.3f)./4) . . .
Chap.2 Sect.6 Para.2. . . Israel stubbornly refused to repent, and he called her . . .
Chap.5 Sect.2.3 Para.5. . . without valid grounds should repent before God, and if . . .
Chap.5 Sect.3 Para.3. . . the sinner is encouraged to repent and their partner is . . .

Repentance
Chap.2 Sect.2 Para.4. . . , but one should invite repentance. However, divorce . . .
Chap.2 Sect.2 Para.5. . . he encouraged people to seek repentance from their partner . . .
Chap.5 Sect.2.5 Para.3. . . take part in a service of 'Repentance for Broken . . .
Chap.5 Sect.2.5 Para.3. . . take part in a service of 'Repentance for Broken . . .
Chap.5 Sect.2.5 Para.4. . . , I come to you in repentance. I confess that I . . .

Repentant
Chap.5 Sect.3 Para.1. . . and be reconciled to a repentant partner who breaks . . .

Replied
Chap.2 Sect.1 Para.6. . . Hillelite interpretation). He replied, after a long . . .

Report
Chap.5 Sect.2.1 Para.2. . . process. The Anglican Church report Putting Asunder . . .

Repudiated
Chap.2 Sect.2 Para.6. . . strive to fulfil. Since Jesus repudiated this interpretation . . .
Chap.2 Sect.2 Para.6. . . , he presumably also repudiated the Jewish use of . . .

Repulsive
Chap.2 Sect.5 Para.4. . . which made the person repulsive to their partner. . . .

Require
Chap.2 Sect.5 Para.1. . . 'Any Matter' divorces did not require any proof or court . . .
Chap.4 Sect.2 Para.3. . . law, that it would require a very definite . . .

Required
Chap.3 Sect.2 Para.3. . . much food and clothing were required, he said that they . . .

Resorted
Chap.4 Sect.1 Para.3. . . out that it should only be resorted to when a partner is . . .

Resources
Chap.5 Sect.3 Para.4. . . (Eerdmans, 2001) and other resources at www. . . .

Respect
Chap.2 Sect.2 Para.1. . . importance of mutual love and respect, but the abbreviated . . .

Restrictions
Chap.5 Sect.2.1 Para.3. . . this is due to the lifting of restrictions, or whether . . .

Restrictive
Chap.1 Sect.4 Para.7. . . had meant to give such a restrictive meaning to the . . .

Resulted
Chap.2 Sect.1 Para.9. . . of Jerusalem in 70 CE resulted in the end of the . . .

Returned
Chap.3 Sect.3 Para.4. . . is to make sure the dowry is returned and that nothing has . . .

Reverse
Chap.3 Sect.3 Para.3. . . , they should attempt to reverse it (1Cor.7.11). Some ( . . .

Richer
Chap.5 Sect.1 Para.6. . . for better: for wors: for richer: for poorer: in . . .

Right
Chap.1 Sect.4 Para.8. . . when the Jews lost the right to impose capital . . .
Chap.3 Sect.1 Para.3. . . divorce had an automatic right to remarry. In fact the . . .
Chap.3 Sect.1 Para.3. . . certificate was to state this right. The only compulsory . . .
Chap.3 Sect.4 Para.4. . . he wants to establish the right of a widow to remarry. . . .
Chap.3 Sect.4 Para.4. . . Remarriage was a fundamental right of a divorcee, because . . .
Chap.3 Sect.4 Para.4. . . a certificate proving this right, whereas a widow often . . .
Chap.4 Sect.1 Para.1. . . certificate was to state this right. The Hillelites had . . .
Chap.4 Sect.2 Para.3. . . was such a firmly established right, in both Jewish and . . .
Chap.5 Sect.3 Para.2. . . by an unbeliever, without the right to remarry), has caused . . .

Rights
Chap.1 Sect.3 Para.3. . . such as refusing conjugal rights, and abandonment. The . . .
Chap.2 Sect.5 Para.5. . . if a slave wife had these rights, then so did a free . . .
Chap.2 Sect.5 Para.5. . . so did a husband. These three rights became grounds for . . .
Chap.3 Sect.2 Para.2. . . We normally speak of conjugal rights, but Paul spoke about . . .
Chap.3 Sect.5 Para.1. . . of 1Cor.7.39 concerns the rights of a widow, so divorce . . .

Risen
Chap.5 Sect.2.1 Para.3. . . 9. The number of divorces has risen dramatically, though . . .

Rom
Chap.1 Sect.2 Para.3. . . verse (and a similar verse at Rom.7.2) that marriage can . . .
Chap.3 Sect.5 Para.1. . . the partners dies (1Cor.7.39; Rom.7.2). However, neither of . . .
Chap.3 Sect.5 Para.1. . . in view and the context of Rom.7.2 is a rather complex . . .

Roman
Chap.1 Sect.4 Para.8. . . ended in 7 C.E. when the Roman government of Palestine . . .
Chap.3 Sect.4 Para.2. . . the full force of Greek and Roman law to enforce it. Also, . . .
Chap.4 Sect.2 Para.3. . . In fact it was illegal for a Roman citizen to remain . . .

Romans
Chap.3 Sect.5 Para.2. . . would also be out of place./Romans 7.1-4 is a metaphor . . .

Ruined
Chap.1 Sect.4 Para.2. . . to include anything which ruined a marriage and Stephen . . .

Rule
Chap.5 Sect.2.4 Para.3. . . marriage through death do not rule out divorce. Virtually . . .

Rules
Chap.1 Sect.4 Para.9. . . , and unpopular Pharisaic rules were often ignored. Also . . .

Rulings
Chap.3 Sect.3 Para.1. . . also made some other general rulings about divorce./1) . . .