What I Believe by Leo Tolstoy ~ Full Audiobook [religion]
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Why Is the Sentence Saved for the Cause of Fornication Inserted?
The words refer to the husband who causes his wife to commit adultery by putting her away. There is no opposition in these words, and no mention made of the possibility or impossibility of divorce. If it were said that the husband who puts away his wife, besides being guilty of fornication, commits adultery, the sentence would be grammatically correct. But as the text stands, the noun husband has one predicate, causes her,. And how does the phrase, saving for the cause of fornications, refer to it? Cannot cause her to commit adultery, saving forthe cause of adultery. For if a man divorces his wife, it is in order to take to himself some other woman
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