The faith of our fathers - Carmel Apologetics

"""MATRIMONY. 467Friends, like Abraham and Lot, may be obliged topart company. But by the law of God, the bonduniting husband and wife can be dissolved only bydeath. No earthly sword can sever the nuptial knotwhich the Lord has tied ; for, what God hath joinedtogether, let not man put asunder.It isworthy of remark, that three of the Evangelists, as well as the Apostle of the Gentiles, proclaimthe indissolubility of marriage, and forbid a weddedperson to engage in second wedlock during the lifeof his spouse. There is scarcely indeed a moral precept more strongly enforced in the Gospel than theindissoluble character of marriage validly contracted.The Pharisees came to Jesus, tempting Him, andsaying Is it lawful for a man to put away his wife:for every cause ? Who, answering, said to them :Have ye not read that He who made man from thebeginning, made them male and female? And Hesaid : For this cause shall a man leave father andmother, and shall cleave to his wife, and they twoshall be one flesh. Therefore now they are not two,but one flesh. What therefore God hath joined together, let no man put asunder. They say to Him :Why then did Moses command to give a bill ofdivorce and to ?put away He saith to them : Because Moses, by reason of the hardness of yourheart, permitted you to put away your wives but;from the beginning it was not so. And I say toyou, that whosoever shall put away his wife, exceptit be for fornication, and shall marry Another, com-