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Thelyphthora; or, a treatise on female ruin, in its causes, effects, consequences, prevention, and remedy; considered on the basis of the divine law under the following heads, viz. marriage, whoredom and fornication, adultery, polygamy, divorce, with many other incidental matters, particularly including an examination of the principles and tendency of Stat. 26 Geo. II. c. 33, commonly called The marriage act / [Anon].

  • Martin Madan
Date:
1780-1781
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Credit: Thelyphthora; or, a treatise on female ruin, in its causes, effects, consequences, prevention, and remedy; considered on the basis of the divine law under the following heads, viz. marriage, whoredom and fornication, adultery, polygamy, divorce, with many other incidental matters, particularly including an examination of the principles and tendency of Stat. 26 Geo. II. c. 33, commonly called The marriage act / [Anon]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ] $3 7 δὲ drefs his’ victuals. well, or if be found > any other woman he hked better.” Akiba was {till more indulgent than Πρ, for he affirmed that ** it was fufficient caufe * for a man to put away his wife, if the ** were not agreeable to her hufband.” | Fofephus and Philo thew very fufficient« ly, that in their time the ews believed divorce to be lawful on every trivial caufe, That the Pharifees had learnt to explain the toleration of Mofes in a like extenfive manner, may be gathered from the quef- tion which they put to our Saviour. The above obfervations may therefore ferve as a key tothe{cripture under confideration. The Pharifees (who afked, whether it was lawful for a man to put away bis wife for every 000/22 feem to have been deeply tinctured with that pofition of 1172, and to have adopted that particular caufe of divorce mentioned by him, that of feeing a woman they liked better, fo putting away one whom they liked /e/s, in order to take another whom they liked more. Againft this CuRistT may be underftood to level his anfwer—Whofoever putteth away bis wife, except for the σαι of fornication, and marrieth another, committeth adultery, &c. not as condemning polygamy ג‎ 5% againft which there was no low, but un- der the particular circumftance of unlaw-