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AN EXAMINATION OF THE EXCEPTION CLAUSES IN THE DIVORCE PASSAGES OF MATTHEW IN LIGHT OF THEIR DISPENSATIONAL CONTEXTS

By Pete Heisey, Romania poheisey@mail.dnttm.ro

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• Paul E. Steele and Charles C. Ryrie, Meant To Last (Wheaton, IL: SP Publications, 1983) 90-91.

• William A. Heth and Gordon J. Wenham, Jesus and Divorce: The Problem With the Evangelical Consensus (Nashville, TN: Thomas Nelson, Inc., Publishers, 1984) 50, 52.

• W. Fisher-Hunter, Marriage and Divorce: A Biblical Treatise on the Divorce Problem (Waynesboro, PA: MacNeish Publishers, 1952) pp. 45-48.

• Joseph M. Stowell, Marriage is for Keeps (Des Plains, IL: General Association of Regular Baptists, n.d.) 19-20.
• W. Fisher-Hunter, Marriage and Divorce: A Biblical Treatise on the Divorce Problem (Waynesboro, PA: MacNeish Publishers, 1952) 51-53.

• W. Fisher-Hunter, Marriage and Divorce: A Biblical Treatise on the Divorce Problem (Waynesboro, PA: MacNeish Publishers, 1952) 54-56.

• William A. Heth and Gordon J. Wenham, Jesus and Divorce: The Problem With the Evangelical Consensus (Nashville, TN: Thomas Nelson, Inc., Publishers, 1984) 187. Heth and Wenham discuss this synoptic phenomenon at length on pages 185-188 as well as in their own notes and establish its essential correctness and applicability to the exception clauses.

• W. Fisher-Hunter, Marriage and Divorce: A Biblical Treatise on the Divorce Problem (Waynesboro, PA: MacNeish Publishers, 1952) 58-59.

• Theodore Epp, Marriage, Divorce, and Remarriage (Lincoln, NE: Back to the Bible, 1979) 64-65.

• Theodore Epp, Marriage, Divorce, and Remarriage (Lincoln, NE: Back to the Bible, 1979) 53.

• William A. Heth and Gordon J. Wenham, Jesus and Divorce: The Problem With the Evangelical Consensus (Nashville, TN: Thomas Nelson, Inc., Publishers, 1984) 124-125.

• William A. Heth and Gordon J. Wenham, Jesus and Divorce: The Problem With the Evangelical Consensus (Nashville, TN: Thomas Nelson, Inc., Publishers, 1984) 69-72.

• W. Fisher-Hunter, Marriage and Divorce: A Biblical Treatise on the Divorce Problem (Waynesboro, PA: MacNeish Publishers, 1952) 94-95.

• William A. Heth and Gordon J. Wenham, Jesus and Divorce: The Problem With the Evangelical Consensus (Nashville, TN: Thomas Nelson, Inc., Publishers, 1984) 122-123.

• William A. Heth and Gordon J. Wenham, Jesus and Divorce: The Problem With the Evangelical Consensus (Nashville, TN: Thomas Nelson, Inc., Publishers, 1984) 46.

• William A. Heth and Gordon J. Wenham, Jesus and Divorce: The Problem With the Evangelical Consensus (Nashville, TN: Thomas Nelson, Inc., Publishers, 1984) 127-128. Some writers have argued from the Babylonian Talmud's Gemara on the tractate Gittin 90a-b that Shammaites allowed divorce for reasons other than adultery. But I. Sonne's study ("The Schools of Shammai and Hillel Seen From Within", in the Louis Ginzburg Jubilee Volume [New York: American Academy for Jewish Research, 1945] 275-291) of the school of Shammai on Deuteronomy 24 led him to conclude that the cause of divorce for the Shammaites can be only a matter of marital unfaithfulness (Cited by Heth and Wenham p. 218 note 12).

• David R. Catchpole, "The Synoptic Divorce Material as a Traditio-Historical Problem," Bulletin of the John Rylands University Library of Manchester, England 57 (1974): 120, cited by William A. Heth and Gordon J. Wenham in Jesus and Divorce: The Problem With the Evangelical Consensus (Nashville, TN: Thomas Nelson, Inc., Publisher, 1984) p. 127.

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• Abel Isaksson, with translation by Neil Tomkinson and Jean Gray, Marriage and Ministry in the New Temple (Lund [Gleerup] and Copenhagen [Munsgaard]: Gleerup and also Munsgaard, 1965) 21.

• William A. Heth and Gordon J. Wenham, Jesus and Divorce: The Problem With the Evangelical Consensus (Nashville, TN: Thomas Nelson, Inc., Publishers, 1984) 115.

• William A. Heth and Gordon J. Wenham, Jesus and Divorce: The Problem With the Evangelical Consensus (Nashville, TN: Thomas Nelson, Inc., Publishers, 1984) 174.

• William A. Heth and Gordon J. Wenham, Jesus and Divorce: The Problem With the Evangelical Consensus (Nashville, TN: Thomas Nelson, Inc., Publishers, 1984) 181-182.

• John Lightfoot, A Commentary on the New Testament from the Talmud and Hebraica: Matthew-I Corinthians (reprint edition), (4 volumes with introduction in the reprint edition by R. Laird Harris), (Oxford University Press, 1859 and republished Grand Rapids, MI: Baker, 1979) vol. 2:125, 261, cited by William A. Heth and Gordon J. Wenham in Jesus and Divorce: The Problem With the Evangelical Consensus (Nashville, TN: Thomas Nelson, Inc., Publishers, 1984) p. 84.

• William A. Heth and Gordon J. Wenham, Jesus and Divorce: The Problem With the Evangelical Consensus (Nashville, TN: Thomas Nelson, Inc., Publishers, 1984) 120.

• Bill Gothard, Our Most Important Messages Grow Out of Our Greatest Weaknesses: A Supplementary Resource For Rebuilders (Oak Brook, IL: Institute In Basic Youth Conflicts, 1978) 6-7.

• William J. Hopewell, Jr., Marriage and Divorce (Cherry Hill, NJ: Wm. J. Hopewell, Jr. and printed by Niles & Phipps Lithographers, Inc., Binghamton, NY, 1976) 1-2.

• Theodore Epp, Marriage, Divorce, and Remarriage (Lincoln, NE: Back to the Bible, 1979) 57-58.

• William J. Hopewell, Jr., Marriage and Divorce (Cherry Hill, NJ: Wm. J. Hopewell, Jr. and printed by Niles & Phipps Lithographers, Inc., Binghamton, NY, 1976) 10.

• William A. Heth and Gordon J. Wenham, Jesus and Divorce: The Problem With the Evangelical Consensus (Nashville, TN: Thomas Nelson, Inc., Publishers, 1984) 188. Heth and Wenham also point out in note 39 (p. 250) that Bauer, Arndt, Gingrich, and Danker in their Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament list Matthew 19:9 ("mee") under Al l (= a negative particle [negativing effect] in conditional clauses and Matthew 26:5 is placed under AII16 (= in a prohibitive sense in abrupt expressions [without a verb], i. e., not necessarily or directly related to conditional clauses).

• William A. Heth and Gordon J. Wenham, Jesus and Divorce: The Problem With the Evangelical Consensus (Nashville, TN: Thomas Nelson, Inc., Publishers, 1984) 188.

• William A. Heth and Gordon J. Wenham, Jesus and Divorce: The Problem With the Evangelical Consensus (Nashville, TN: Thomas Nelson, Inc., Publishers, 1984) 117-118. Heth and Wenham also point out in note 15 (p. 233) that this excludes those cases in which another grammatical or lexical category is operative. They indicate that for any norm to be confirmed or illustrated one should also check the Septuagint, papyri, literary Koine, and classical Greek, plus the equivalent of the Matthew 19:9 structure (i.e., check usages of "ou" plus the indicative).

• Thomas Edgar in Divorce and Remarriage: Four Christian Views (Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, 1990, H. Wayne House, ed.) 170-171.

• Alfred Plummer, An Exegetical Commentary on the Gospel According to Saint Matthew (London, England: Robert Scott, 1909) 260, cited by William A. Heth and Gordon J. Wenham in Jesus and Divorce: The Problem With the Evangelical Consensus (Nashville, TN: Thomas Nelson, Inc., Publishers, 1984) p. 129.

• William A. Heth and Gordon J. Wenham, Jesus and Divorce: The Problem With the Evangelical Consensus (Nashville, TN: Thomas Nelson, Inc., Publishers, 1984) 51.

• William A. Heth and Gordon J. Wenham, Jesus and Divorce: The Problem With the Evangelical Consensus (Nashville, TN: Thomas Nelson, Inc., Publishers, 1984) 199-200.

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• Bill Gothard, The Rebuilder's Supplement (Oak Brook, IL: Institute in Basic Youth Conflicts, 1979) 46.

• William A. Heth and Gordon J. Wenham, Jesus and Divorce: The Problem With the Evangelical Consensus (Nashville, TN: Thomas Nelson, Inc., Publishers, 1984) 202.

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