Commentary on Matthew (fragments)
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Chapter 5
5.31PG 72 72:379–380
Ἐῤῥέθη δὲ ὅτι ὃς ἂν ἀπολύσῃ τὴν γυναῖκα αὐτοῦ, δότω αὐτῇ ἀποστάσιον. Ὁ τὴν σώφρονα ἐκβάλλων δίδωσιν αὐτῇ ἄδειαν ἄλλῳ γαμηθῆναι, ὅπερ ἐστὶν εἶδος μοιχείας, ὡσανεὶ μὴ λυθείσης συζυγίας· οὐ γὰρ τὰ ῥεπούδια παρὰ Θεῷ λύει τὸν γάμον, ἀλλ᾽ ἡ ἄτοπος πρᾶξις.
Errhethē de hoti hos an apolysę̄ tēn gynaika autou, dotō autę̄ apostasion. Ho tēn sōphrona ekballōn didōsin autę̄ adeian allǭ gamēthēnai, hoper estin eidos moicheias, hōsanei mē lytheisēs syzygias; ou gar ta rhepoudia para Theǭ lyei ton gamon, all᾽ hē atopos praxis.
"It was said: Whoever puts away his wife, let him give her a certificate of divorce." The man who casts out a chaste wife gives her license to be married to another, which is a kind of adultery, as though the marriage had not been dissolved; for it is not divorce papers that dissolve a marriage before God, but the wrongful deed.