The Doctrine And Law Of Marriage Adultery And Divorce PDF Download

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1826 edition. Excerpt: ... APPENDIX No. I. ON THE HELLENISTIC AND ECCLESIASTICAL MEANING OF THE WOBD WOgveia. THE various, the confused, and the unsatisfactory expositions of the word irogviia, as it occurs Matt. v. 32. xix. 9. Acts xv. 20, 29. seem to demand and to justify a more exact investigation of its meaning and import. It is not probable, that any discovery will be made which has escaped the penetration and research of former commentators; but it is possible, that by comparing the several texts in which the word and some similar expressions are found, and by bringing into one point of view the versions and the commentaries by which those texts have at different times been illustrated and explained, a clear and strong light may be thrown upon the sense in which the Jews understood the term, a sense which it is of the highest importance to ascertain, because, in the texts in question, the word was used with reference to controversies which were agitated at the time among the Jews. The principal design of the following dissertation is to shew, 1. that there is a word, or class of words, appropriated to describe adultery ordinarily and properly so called: 2. that the words so appropriated are distinguished from those which denote simple whoredom: 3. that if either of the words be a generic term, including the other, wogveia is not that generic term: 4. that it is not necessary to admit, that wogveia is in any text confounded or synonymous with jtioj DEGREESsia: 5. that the Hellenistic writers do not adhere to the classical sense or etymology of the words, but use TTogveiw, ixnogvevw, TOgvtj, and iroqma, to denote generally the apostacy of idolatry, and specifically acts of consecration to the service of idols, and also the incestuous and forbidden marriages of