What I Believe by Leo Tolstoy ~ Full Audiobook [religion]
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Aemere Epipornaia, Besides Lewdness, Causes Her to Commit Adultery
I saw that there could be no doubt about the word pornea, referring only to the husband. Every Greek scholar will construe the passage thus. He who divorces his wife, besides the sin of lewdness, causes her to commit adultery. It is said aemere epipornaia, which, being translated literally, is, if not by lewdness, if not out of lewdness. And thus the meaning is clear that Christ in this passage refutes the notion of the Pharisees that a man who put away his wife did not commit adultery. I at last discovered this clear and simple meaning of the words themselves and their harmony with the whole doctrine of Christ
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