The faith of our fathers - Carmel Apologetics

""MATRIMONY. 469This interpretation is confirmed by the concurrenttestimony of the Evangelists Mark and Luke, andby St. Paul all of;whom prohibit divorce a vinculo,without any qualification whatever.In St. Mark we reud : Whosoever shall put awayhis wife and marry another, cornmitteth adulteryagainst her. And if the wife shall put away herhusband and be married to another, she cornmittethadultery."1The same unqualified declaration is made by St.Luke :Every one that putteth away his wife andmarrieth another, committeth adultery and he;thatmarrieth her that isput away from her husband,2committeth adultery."Both of these Evangelistsforbid either husband or wife to enter into secondwedlock, how aggravating soever may be the causeAnd surely, if the case of adulof their separation.tery authorized the aggrieved husband to marryanother wife, those inspired penmen would not havefailed to mention that qualifying circumstance.Passing Horn the Gospels to the Epistle of St.Paul to the Corinthians, we find there also an unqualified prohibition of divorce. The Apostle iswriting to a city newly converted to the Christianreligion. Among other topics, he inculcates thedoctrine of the Church respecting Matrimony. Wemust suppose that as an inspired writer and a faithful minister of the Word, he discharges his dutyconscientiously, without suppressing or extenuating1Mark x. 11, 12.40aLuke xvi. 18.