Adultery, Guilt, and Righteousness

The passage we now consider is the solid ground for one of our distinctive doctrines, the unbreakable character of marriage. It is also the solid ground for one of our distinctive practices, the forbidding of divorce, except in cases of adultery, and the forbidding of remarriage in every case. This is a hard doctrine and a hard practice to maintain. The world at present knows almost nothing about a lifetime commitment of husband and wife to one another. More to its shame, the same is also true...