One Husband, One Wife

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Mar 6, 1901

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 27, No. 10.

One Husband, One Wife.

Mal. 2:14, 15, in our Sabbath-school lesson, page 11, may present some difficulties to the student. Spurrell’s translation reads: “Still ye say: Wherefore? Because Jehovah is a witness between thee and between the wife of thy youth, against whom thou hast dealt unfaithfully, tho she is thy consociate, and the wife of thy covenant. Truly did He not make twain one flesh? and the Spirit, the consanguinity between them? And wherefore one? Because He desired a godly seed.” On verse 15 Boothroyd has this note: “Make one, etc. One man and one woman; ‘yet [or tho] He had the residue of the spirit,’ that is, all power and wisdom, and could have made more, had His intention been that one man should have many wives, or one woman many husbands. . . . That He might seek a godly seed. That parents might feel a proper interest in the education and welfare of their children, and especially mothers, which they could not when divorced at the caprice of their husbands.” God is still the same. He hates divorce.