Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible
Matthew 5:32
Shall marry her that is divorced] i.e. for adultery; or, 'shall marry a divorced woman.'
Shall marry her that is divorced] i.e. for adultery; or, 'shall marry a divorced woman.'
MATTHEW 5:32 kai. o]j eva.n avpolelume,nhn gamh,sh|( moica/tai {B} The reading of B (o` … gamh,saj) seems to have been substituted for the reading of the other uncials (o]j eva.n … gamh,sh|) in order...
Verse 32. _SAVING FOR THE CAUSE OF FORNICATION_] λογου πορνειας, _on account of whoredom_. As _fornication_ signifies no more than the unlawful connection of _unmarried_ persons, it cannot be used he...
IT HATH BEEN SAID ... - That is, by Moses, Deuteronomy 24:1. The husband was directed, if he put his wife away, to give her a bill of divorce, that is a certificate of the fact she had been his wife,...
5. THE PROCLAMATION OF THE KING CONCERNING HIS KINGDOM. CHAPTER S 5-7 _ 1. The Characteristics of the heirs of the Kingdom.(Matthew 5:1 .) 2. The Confirmation of the Law and its Expansion.(Matthew 5:...
MATTHEW 5:27 F. ADULTERY. Jesus again extends the scope of the prohibition from actions to thoughts. There is so mething more here than the seventh or even the tenth commandment, where the coveting is...
THE SERMON ON THE MOUNT (Matthew 5:1-48) As we have already seen, Matthew has a careful pattern in his gospel. In his story of the baptism of Jesus he shows us Jesus realizing that the hour has struc...
It has been said: Let every man who divorces his wife give her a bill of divorcement. But I say to you that every one who divorces his wife for any other cause than fornication causes her to commit ad...
_causeth her to commit adultery_ By adopting a slightly different reading in the original with Lachmann, Tischendorf, and Tregelles, the idea of wilful sin on the woman's part is removed. _that is di...
ΜΟΙΧΕΥΘΗ͂ΝΑΙ for μοιχᾶσθαι. The change to the passive is supported by א B D and approves itself as the truer to fact, but perhaps for that very reason is open to some suspicion. 32. ΠΑΡΕΚΤΌΣ. A rare...
(β) Adultery, 27–32...
VER 31. "IT HATH BEEN SAID, 'WHOSOEVER SHALL PUT AWAY HIS WIFE, LET HIM GIVE HER A WRITING OF DIVORCEMENT:' 32. BUT I SAY UNTO YOU, THAT WHOSOEVER SHALL PUT AWAY HIS WIFE, SAVING FOR THE CAUSE OF FORN...
_JESUS' TEACHING ABOUT MURDER, ADULTERY AND SWEARING MATTHEW 5:21-37:_ In Matthew 5:21-26 we learn that the thought of hatred produces the act of murder. Therefore, the thought is the act in the heart...
ΠΑΡΕΚΤΌΣ (G3924) с _gen._ кроме, ΛΌΓΟΣ (G3056) слово, дело, причина. Относительно раввинистических оснований для развода _см._ ВВС; SB, 1:312-20. ΠΟΡΝΕΊΑ (G4202) разврат, любая разновидность блуда,...
DISCOURSE: 1305 DIVORCES FORBIDDEN Matthew 5:31. _It hath been said, Whosoever shall put away his wife, let him give her a writing of divorcement: hut I say unto you, That whosoever shall put away hi...
IT HATH BEEN SAID, &C.— The doctors of the school of _Sammai_ affirmed, that in the law concerning divorce, Deuteronomy 24:1 the words _some uncleanness_ were to be understood of _adultery_ only; wher...
C. THE RELATION OF THE WISE AND GODLY MAN TO THE LAW 3. HIS ATTITUDE TOWARD LUST. TEXT: 5:27-32 27. Ye have heard that it was said, Thou shalt not commit adultery: 28. but I say unto you, that every o...
But 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....
22 Gehenna, the valley of the son of Hinnom, just below the city of Jerusalem, where idolatrous worship was once carried on and where the city offal was burned, will once more become the incinerator f...
MATTHEW’S GOOD NEWS MATTHEW’S *GOSPEL _HILDA BRIGHT_ CHAPTER 5 JESUS TEACHES 5:1–7:29 INTRODUCTION This is the first of the five main sections that report what Jesus taught in Matthew’s *gospe...
SAVING FOR THE CAUSE OF FORNICATION. — The most generic term seems intentionally used to include ante-nuptial as well as post-nuptial sin, possibly, indeed, with reference to the former only, seeing t...
CHAPTER 7 The Gospel of the Kingdom ("Sermon on the Mount") - Matthew 5:1; Matthew 6:1; Matthew 7:1 IT may seem almost heresy to object to the time-honoured title "Sermon on the Mount"; yet, so smal...
_Third illustration_, subordinate to the previous one, connected with the same general topic, sex relations, therefore introduced less formally with a simple ἐρρέθη δὲ. This instance is certainly dire...
PURE EYES AND CLEAN SPEECH Matthew 5:27-37 The legislation of the old time insisted that no member of the commonwealth should commit adultery, and enforced terrible penalties. See Deuteronomy 22:22-2...
In the three Chapter s beginning here we have the Magna Charta of the Kingdom. This chapter opens with a great revelation of its supreme condition. Character is everything. The first word is suggestiv...
Excepting the cause of fornication. A divorce or separation as to bed and board, may be permitted for some weighty causes in Christian marriage; but even then, he that marrieth her that is dismissed,...
CHAPTER 16 SERMON ON THE MOUNT Matthew 5-7, and Luke 6:20-49. A few days ago it was my privilege to spend two beautiful bright days at the sea of Galilee, sailing over it, and visiting the places of...
The law made a provision for the putting away a wife in cases of adultery, Deuteronomy 24:1 etc. But the LORD Jesus saith that this was permitted only in consequence of the hardness of their hearts; f...
God has been pleased, in the separate accounts He has given us of our Lord Jesus, to display not only His own grace and wisdom, but the infinite excellency of His Son. It is our wisdom to seek to prof...
32._Causeth her to commit adultery. _As the _bill of divorcement _bore, that the woman had been loosed from her former husband, and might enter into a new marriage, the man who, unjustly and unlawfull...
He then gathers around Him those who were definitively to follow Him in His ministry and His temptations; and, at His call, to link their portion and their lot with His, forsaking all beside. The str...
BUT I SAY UNTO YOU; THAT WHOSOEVER SHALL PUT AWAY HIS WIFE,.... Christ does not infringe, or revoke the original grant, or permission of divorce; only frees it from the false interpretations, and ill...
But 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. Ve...
_Let him give her a writing of divorcement_ “The doctors of the school of Sammai affirmed, that, in the law concerning divorce, Deuteronomy 24:1, the words _some uncleanness_, were to be understood of...
CAUSETH HER; exposeth her to commit adultery; because, according to the law of Christ's kingdom, her marriage to another man will be regarded as adultery....
BUT 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. Th...
A further illustration;...
From every direction He attracted followers, Galilee mentioned first, but also Decapolis beyond the sea of Galilee, Jerusalem and Judea, and east of Jordan. No doubt their motives for following Him we...
27-32 Victory over the desires of the heart, must be attended with painful exertions. But it must be done. Every thing is bestowed to save us from our sins, not in them. All our senses and powers mus...
Ver. 31,32. The law to which our Saviour refers here, or rather the indulgence and toleration, (for none was obliged to put away their wives in case of uncleanness), is that DEUTERONOMY 24:1, where we...
Shepherd of Hermas Commandment Fourth " And I said to him, "What then, sir, is the husband to do, if his wife continue in her vicious practices? "And he said, "The husband should put her away, and rem...
Matthew 5:32 But G1161 I G1473 say G3004 (G5719) you G5213 that G3754 whoever G3739 G302 divorces...
FIVE FULLER APPLICATIONS OF THE LAW (5:21-43). In order to bring home what His disciples' approach to the Law should be Jesus selects five pivotal aspects of the Law, and expands on them and explains...
2). GOD'S CONCERN ABOUT THE PURITY OF WOMEN: WHAT THE DISCIPLES' ATTITUDE IS TO BE TOWARDS THE LAW CONCERNING ADULTERY, DIVORCE, AND SEXUAL ATTITUDE: THE NEED TO BE HARSH WITH THEMSELVES ABOUT SIN (5:...
Matthew 5:32. FORNICATION, or unchastity. MAKETH HER TO COMMIT ADULTERY, not by the fact of her being divorced, but in view of the extremely probable case of another marriage. WHEN SHE IS PUT AWAY....
Our Lord defines His relation to the old dispensation (Matthew 5:17-19), thus introducing the negative leading thought, viz., the utter failure of the Pharisees to attain true righteousness, according...
GENERAL CHARACTER. The magna charta of Christ's Kingdom: the unfolding of His righteousness; the sublimest code of morals ever proclaimed on earth; the counterpart of the legislation on Mount Sinai; C...
SAVING FOR THE CAUSE OF FORNICATION (παρεκτος λογου πορνειας). An unusual phrase that perhaps means "except for a matter of unchastity." "Except on the ground of unchastity" (Weymouth), "except unfa...
Matthew 5:31. _It hath been said, Whosoever shall put away his wife, let him give her a writing of divorcement: But I say unto to you, That whosoever shall put away his wife, saving for the cause of f...
Matthew 5:17. _Think not that I am came to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfill._ The life, work, and words of Christ are not an emendation of the Old Testament,...
CONTENTS: Sermon on the mount. Beatitudes. Believer as salt and light. Christ's relation to the law. Divorce. CHARACTERS: God, Jesus. CONCLUSION: The relationship of a child of God will be manifeste...
Matthew 5:1. _Seeing the multitudes,_ assembled from six provinces to see and to hear the great, the promised prophet, who had opened his ministry with glorious miracles. But our Saviour looked upon t...
BUT NOW I TELL YOU. Jesus forbids divorce except for unfaithfulness. A divorce for any other cause is not valid, making those who remarry guilty of bigamy and therefore adultery. See notes on Matthew...
MATTHEW—NOTE ON MATTHEW 5:21 YOU HAVE HEARD THAT IT WAS SAID (vv. Matthew 5:21, Matt
MATTHEW—NOTE ON MATTHEW 5:31 This passage reflects the fact that divorce and remarriage were widely practiced in the first century. A CERTIFICATE OF DIVORCE gave a woman the right to remarry. BUT I SA...
CHAPTER 5 _Went up into a mountain._ Let us inquire what mountain this was? "Some simple brethren," says S. Jerome, "think that Christ taught the Beatitudes, and the things which follow, on the mount...
_CRITICAL NOTES_ GENERAL REMARKS ON THE SERMON ON THE MOUNT _The aim and contents of the_ “_Sermon_.”—No mere sermon is this, only distinguished from others of its class by its reach and sweep and po...
EXPOSITION MATTHEW 5:1 AND SEEING THE MULTITUDES; _i.e. _those spoken of in Matthew 4:25—the multitudes who were at that point of time following him. HE WENT UP. From the lower ground by the lake. I...
Tonight we have the Sermon on the Mount, what a fantastic portion of scripture. Matthew five, And seeing the multitudes, he went up into a mountain: and when he has sat down, his disciples came unto...
1 Corinthians 7:10; 1 Corinthians 7:11; 1 Corinthians 7:4; Luke 16:18;...
THE SERMON ON THE MOUNT Matthew 5:1 INTRODUCTORY WORDS 1. The key to the Sermon on the Mount is found in Matthew 4:23 : "preaching the Gospel of the Kingdom." Before the Lord sat a great crowd of p...
Causeth her to commit adultery — If she marry again....