the law as enunciated by Jesus does not in any way suggest any alteration in the nature and effect of divorce. The change initiated by Jesus was rather the abolition of every other reason permitted in the Mosaic provisions and the distinct specification that adultery was now the only ground upon which a man could legitimately put away his wife. What is abrogated, then, is not divorce with its attendant dissolution of the marriage bond but rather all ground for divorce except adultery. “If divorce
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