to be sent away for whatever reason, in order that they not be married to others according to the custom of the Jews that the Lord forbade, saying: “whoever divorces his wife, except for unchastity, and marries another commits adultery” [Matt 19:9]. Only that is adultery, as Jerome says,29 which conquers the affection of the wife. Indeed, when she shall have divided one flesh into two and shall have separated herself by fornication, she ought not to be retained by the husband, lest it make the man