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Covenant Theology In Outline Form 36: Matthew 19 on Divorce & Remarriage

Shema Now when Jesus had finished these sayings, he went away from Galilee and entered the region of Judea beyond the Jordan.  Historical Prologue  2  And large crowds followed him, and he healed them there. 3  And Pharisees came up to him and tested him by asking, “Is it lawful to divorce one’s wife for any cause?”  General Stipulations  4  He answered, “Have you not read that he who created them from the beginning made them male and female,  5  and said, ‘Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh’?  6  So they are no longer two but one flesh. What therefore God has joined together, let not man separate.”  Specific Stipulations  7  They said to him, “Why then did Moses command one to give a certificate of divorce and to send her away?”  The Historical Regulation 8  He said to them, “Because of your hardness of heart Moses allowed you ...
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Tackling Tradition 93: Analogical Porneia

According to Bill Mounce, the lexical definition of porneia is as follows. Gloss sexual immorality, fornication, marital unfaithfulness, prostitution, adultery, a generic term for sexual sin of any kind Definition fornication, whoredom, Mt. 15:19; Mk. 7:21; Acts 15:20, 29; concubinage, Jn. 8:41; adultery,Mt. 5:32; 19:9; incest, 1 Cor. 5:1; lewdness, uncleanness, genr., Rom. 1:29; from the Hebrew, put symbolically for idolatry,Rev. 2:21; 14:8 I our previous two articles (Iverson On Divorce & Remarriage) we saw the way Mr. Iverson overlooks the fact that the term “adultery,” like the term “porneia,” is used by God in Jeremiah in figurative, analogical fashion.  In Jeremiah 3:8, God says that he gave faithless Israel a certificate of divorce for her adulteries.    Hosea’s major theme centers on a great big prophetic sign act in which God commands Hosea to marry Gomer who prostitutes herself so much that she is in the thrall of another lover, & although according to ...
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