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The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Apr 15, 1862

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 19, No. 20.

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Divorce

By Uriah Smith

Divorce.—A correspondent sends to the Office the following request: “Will you give your opinion in regard to divorces, as there are some that do not feel satisfied on this subject?”
Answer.—We think that for one cause, that mentioned by our Lord as recorded in Matt. xix, 9, divorce may lawfully be obtained, and that the parties divorced are as free as if the marriage contract had never existed between them. Some have drawn what are evidently extreme views from Paul’s language in Rom. vii, 1–3. But Paul is there only giving us an illustration, and not laying down rules in regard to the marriage relation. To enforce his illustration, he takes the general rule; and it would be by no means proper for him in that connection to go out of his way to state exceptions. U. S.