suggest that it does refer to marital unfaithfulness, but in the period of betrothal, before the husband and wife began to live together. Finally, it is argued that Matthew’s real concern here is the right of remarriage; since the Mosaic law prescribed death as the penalty for adultery (Deut 22:22), the statement in Deut 24:1 did not address the question of divorce in the case of adultery and thus it did not deal with the issue of the right of remarriage in the event of such a divorce (so J. Murray,