is injured in its nature it cannot recover, but the crooked inclination can be reformed. Even if you should say that your wife is incurably ill, and after receiving much care still behaves in her own manner, still you must not cast her out. The limb with an incurable disease is not cut off. She also is your limb, for it is written, “The two shall become one flesh.”7 Besides, with the limb, we receive no benefit from the treatment when the illness turns out to be incurable; but with a wife, even if