have expected his readers to conclude, simply by his silence when discussing the issue of widowhood or illustrating the end of the believer’s marriage to the Law, that remarriage of a divorcée was unacceptable. Paul addressed several problems faced by believers who were living in the Greco-Roman world, where anyone could employ divorce by separation. He reminded them that Jesus forbade this type of separation when he condemned the very similar Hillelite “any matter” divorce. Paul also