A brother or a sister is not under bondage(literally, enslaved) in such cases The Roman Catholic divines, e.g. à Lapide and Ambrosiaster, as well as the Canon law, held that in the case of the heathen partner refusing to live with the other when he or she embraced Christianity, the Christian was justified in contracting a fresh marriage. See Wordsworth, in loc.

to peace The marginal in peaceis to be preferred, as signifying the spirit in which God called us.

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