Bible Dictionary: Divorce: Sought on Slight Grounds

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Matthew 5:31
It has been said, Whoever shall put away his wife, let him give her a writing of divorce:
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Matthew 19:3
The Pharisees also came to him, tempting him, and saying to him, Is it lawful for a man to put away his wife for every cause?
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Library

On the Journey to Jerusalem - Departure from Ephraim by Way of ...
... In the one case, the benefit sought was the object ... an anti-climax giving permission
of divorce if another ... The same story is related, with slight alterations, in ...
/.../the life and times of jesus the messiah/chapter xxii on the journey.htm

Jesus Sets Out from Judæa for Galilee.
... to have said that a man might properly divorce his wife if ... her own sins may have,
in some slight measure, prompted ... by such a feeling, this woman sought to have ...
/.../mcgarvey/the four-fold gospel/xxvi jesus sets out from 2.htm

English Congregational Creeds.
... This is a slight modification of the Westminster Confession ... XXV.), 'Of Marriage and
Divorce,' and XXVI ... more weight to my statements, I have sought the assistance ...
/.../ 102 english congregational creeds.htm

Papal Tombs.
... of foreign universities respecting his divorce from Catherine ... for an age in which
statues were sought, not as ... injuries wrought by time are slight, and confined ...
/.../lanciani/pagan and christian rome/chapter v papal tombs.htm

Doctrinal and Moral Treatises. Index of Subjects.
... Barrenness, does not make divorce lawful, [493]402, [494 ... 542, [621]543, [622]550;
to slight, irreligious, [623 ... 943]383; forbears excuses, [944]384, sought of God ...
/.../on care to be had for the dead /doctrinal and moral treatises index.htm

Essay
... But they soon contrived a slight garment as for a ... God made man upright: but they
have sought out many ... to our Lord with a question about divorce, they being ...
/.../an essay on the mosaic account of the creation and fall of man/essay.htm

The First Epistle of St. Peter
... already outlined; now, after the slight digression in 19 ... charges were considered
and evidence sought for the ... Martyr) was obliged eventually to divorce her pagan ...
/.../moffat/the general epistles james peter and judas/the first epistle of st.htm

Disestablishment
... should be made, because, as capital sought investment, in ... writ of error, and in some
matters of divorce. ... seems to have been taken with slight alteration from ...
/.../chapter xv disestablishment.htm

Period I: the Imperial State Church of the Undivided Empire, or ...
... party appeared to understand distinctly the grounds on which ... their association with
the Donatists was at first slight. ... say that the military was sought by us ...
/.../ayer/a source book for ancient church history/period i the imperial state.htm

Period iv. The Age of the Consolidation of the Church: 200 to 324 ...
... in the case of a man who under slight torture had ... was mindful of the Christians;
for he sought out the ... of the Church regarding remarriage after divorce was as ...
/.../ayer/a source book for ancient church history/period iv the age of.htm

Subtopics

Divorce

Divorce and Adultery

Divorce and Getting Remarried

Divorce and Separation

Divorce Forgiveness

Divorce in the New Testament

Divorce in the Old Testament

Divorce of Captives, Regulated by Law

Divorce of Servants, Regulated by Law

Divorce: Disobedience of the Wife to the Husband, a Sufficient Cause For, in the Persian Empire

Divorce: Figurative