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20. Christ
and the Gentiles.
Now there are those in whose case it has happened that
the man dwells with them without having hated them, because they abide
in the house of the last husband, who took to himself their synagogue
as wife. But also in their case the latter husband dies,6201
perhaps whenever the last enemy of Christ,
death, is destroyed. But whichever of these things may happen,
whether the former or the latter to the wife, the former husband, it
says, who sent her away, will not he able to turn back and take her to
be a wife to himself after she has been defiled, since “it is
abomination,” it says, “before the Lord thy
God.”6202
But these
things will not seem to be consistent with this, “If the fulness
of the Gentiles be come in, all Israel shall be saved.”6203
But consider if it can be said to
this, that, if she shall be saved by her former husband returning and
taking her to himself as wife, she will in any case be saved after she
has been polluted. A priest, then, will not take to himself as a
wife one who has been a harlot and an outcast,6204
but no other, as being inferior to the priest, is hindered from doing
so. But if you seek for the harlot in regard to the calling of
the Gentiles, you may use the passage, “Take to yourself a wife
of fornication, and children of fornication,”6205
etc.; for, as “the priests in the
temple profane the sabbath, and are guiltless,”6206
so he who, casting out his former wife,
takes in due season “a wife of fornication,” having done it
according to the command of Him who says, when it is necessary, and so
long as it was necessary, “He shall not take a harlot to
wife,” and, when it was reasonable, He says, “Take to
yourself a wife of
fornication.” For as the Son of man is Lord of the
sabbath,6207
and not the slave
of the sabbath as the people are, so He who gives the law has power to
give it “until a time of reformation,”6208
and to change the law, and, when the time of
the reformation is at hand, also to give after the former way and after
the former heart another way and another heart, “in an acceptable
time, and in a day of salvation.”6209
And let these things be said according
to our interpretation of the law in regard to the bill of
divorcement.E.C.F. INDEX & SEARCH
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