XLVIII.  The woman who has been abandoned by her husband, ought, in my judgment, to remain as she is.  The Lord said, “If any one leave καταλίπῃ for ἀπολύσῃ. his wife, saving for the cause of fornication, he causeth her to commit adultery;” Matt. v. 22. thus, by calling her adulteress, He excludes her from intercourse with another man.  For how can the man being guilty, as having caused adultery, and the woman, go without blame, when she is called adulteress by the Lord for having intercourse with another man?