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Marital Purity Fulfillment: Spiritual Hardening VS Progression Of The Law And Grace |
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After the redaction (Deuteronomy) and before the times of Jesus the Christ, men in Israel were polygamous and permitted to marry unclean and divorced women. These women were recognized as women having an ervat davar and could be divorced according to Dt. 24:1; they were not dowry wives (Ex. 22.16), who were married as virgins and not allowed to be divorced (Dt. 22:19) as long as they kept their chastity. Gomer was not a dowry wife; she was a woman from a history of sexual defilement. Nevertheless, after the coming of Jesus the Christ, Christian men were directed to be monogamous and marry only a clean (not sexually defiled) woman. However, if the chaste wife became sexually defiled, she was not permitted to re-attach herself to the husband, which would impose an abomination and defile the land (Dt. 24:4). Links;
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