4253 — MARRIAGE AND DIVORCE
By Editor
From Rom. 7: 2, 3, would you understand that nothing but death would allow remarriage to persons divorced for any cause whatsoever? The illustration speaks particularly of the woman. Does not the same law also apply to man in the government of God? Matt. 19: 9 is generally considered to teach that the individual, either man or woman, who violates the marriage contract becomes dead to the other party; and it rests with the innocent person to decide whether or not it would be wisdom to continue in marriage relation with the offender, or whether such a course would be warranted. When a contract so sacred as the vows of matrimony is violated by either party, there is no ground for believing that the innocent person is bound by that which has been broken. But in these days of laxity in the marriage relation, the conscientious Christian will be very careful in any steps that are taken, because the prevailing sentiments of the time, coupled with personal inclination, may easily pervert the judgment, and drive any one in a wrong direction. Most assuredly, there is nothing in the Bible anywhere to show that the law of morality governing the woman is any different from the law governing the man.