{"author":null,"canonical_references":[],"database_sha256":"8cfbe7284c6936871d57c02dc6aa63ebbdfd4722422d539dd9f716e46e91112e","date_end":null,"date_start":null,"edition_year":null,"id":"sermonindex-ecf-397","native_reference":{"book_number":530,"chapter_from":7,"chapter_to":7,"system":"MyBible module coordinates (mapping unverified)","verse_from":15,"verse_to":15},"public_import_allowed":false,"record_kind":"verse-keyed-module-record","review_required":["English edition and exact text","author/work attribution","dating","verse mapping and citation kind","reuse and attribution","split author quotations and deduplicate"],"review_status":"unreviewed","source_html":"<p><b>Ambrosiaster</b>: A marriage contracted without devotion to God is not binding, and for that reason it is not a sin if it is abandoned because of God. But the unbelieving partner sins both against God and against the marriage, because he or she is unwilling to live in a marriage relationship dedicated to God. It is not right to go to court over this because the one who leaves the marriage is doing so out of hatred for God, and for this reason he or she is not to be considered worthy of such attention.<br/><i>— COMMENTARY ON PAUL'S EPISTLES</i></p><p><b>Augustine of Hippo</b>: A Christian husband may leave his wife without any blame, even if they are lawfully married, if she refuses to live with him because he is a Christian.<br/><i>— EIGHT QUESTIONS OF DULCITIUS 1</i></p><p><b>John Chrysostom</b>: \"Yet if the unbelieving departeth, let him depart,\" for in this case the matter is no longer fornication. But what is the meaning of, \"if the unbelieving departeth?\" For instance, if he bid thee sacrifice and take part in his ungodliness on account of thy marriage, or else part company; it were better the marriage were annulled, and no breach made in godliness. Wherefore he adds, \"A brother is not under bondage, nor yet a sister, in such cases.\" If day by day he buffet thee and keep up combats on this account, it is better to separate. For this is what he glances at, saying, \"But God hath called us in peace.\" For it is the other party who furnished the ground of separation, even as he did who committed uncleanness.<br/><i>— Homily on 1 Corinthians 19</i></p><p><b>Pelagius</b>: The Lord must come before a husband or a wife.<br/><i>— COMMENTARY ON THE FIRST EPISTLE TO THE CORINTHIANS 7</i></p><p><b>Tertullian</b>: Accordingly he subjoins withal a reason, that \"we are called in peace unto the Lord God; \"and that \"the unbeliever may, through the use of matrimony, be gained by the believer.\" The very closing sentence of the period confirms (the supposition) that this is thus to be understood.<br/><i>— To His Wife Book II</i></p><p><b>Theodoret of Cyrus</b>: The believing partner is not to be the cause of the divorce. But if the unbelieving partner wants to separate, the believing partner is innocent and free from any accusation.<br/><i>— COMMENTARY ON THE FIRST EPISTLE TO THE CORINTHIANS 205</i></p>","source_html_sha256":"35dc420e1a60af613cd0b46ec375b87c30aec35c9844e9e6cf16b3e57385310b","source_module":"ECF","source_row_id":397,"source_url":"https://www.sermonindex.net/commentary/ecf/","text_sha256":"fe8588fead11b9f620de8ee00b8be7be2dc0a1b58d9a6bc6edc82c8a8cae977d","translator":null,"work":null}