And I say unto you, Whosoever shall put away his wife, except it be for fornication, and shall marry another, committeth adultery: and whoso marrieth her which is put away doth commit adultery.
Ver. 9. Except it be for fornication] This sin dissolves the marriage knot, and directly fights against human society. See Trapp on? " Mat 15:32 " See Trapp on " Joh 8:5 " The apostle adds the case of wilful desertion,1 Corinthians 7:15. The civil laws of the empire permitted divorce for various other causes. In Turkey the woman may sue a divorce only then, when her husband would abuse her against nature, which she doth, by taking off her shoe before the judges, and holding it the sole upward, but speaking nothing for the foulness of the fact. (Blount's Voyage into the Levant.)