shnarkle
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Deuteronomy 24:1-4
There are a number of things that I find incredibly noteworthy about this passage. The first is that the woman has been discovered to be unclean, and this is enough for the hard hearted to write a bill of divorce. It is also noteworthy that she is allowed to remarry, probably because she's not the one who is hard hearted. It is the hard hearted who Christ points out are not to remarry.
Romans 7:1-4 Know ye not, brethren, (for I speak to them that know the law,) how that the law hath dominion over a man as long as he liveth? [2] For the woman which hath an husband is bound by the law to her husband so long as he liveth; but if the husband be dead, she is loosed from the law of her husband. [3] So then if, while her husband liveth, she be married to another man, she shall be called an adulteress:but if her husband be dead, she is free from that law; so that she is no adulteress, though she be married to another man. [4] Wherefore, my brethren, ye also are become dead to the law by the body of Christ; that ye should be married to another, even to him who is raised from the dead, that we should bring forth fruit unto God.
from Deuteronomy upon a bill of divorce ...she may go marry another.
If her latter husband sends her out...or divorces her..or hates her...or dies...Her former husband which sent her away cannot and will not take her back. In relation to “wherefore, my brethren, you also are become dead to the Law by the body of Christ; that you should be married to another ...and bring forth fruit unto God.”
Under the new covenant, one does not bring forth fruit by the works of the law, but by faith. How are these differences manifested? In the former, we see people feeding the hungry, clothing the naked, in the latter we see the same thing, but instead of someone claiming that their works document their faith, it is instead a systemic process producing this fruit to God. In other words, one doesn't produce this fruit because they should, or even to document their salvation, but because they were created to produce this fruit.
“...you also have become dead to the Law by the body of Christ; that you should marry another.” ...2 Corinthians 5:14 For the love of Christ constraineth us; because we thus judge, that if one died for all, then were all dead:
I used to think this was referring to the commandments, but that was just because I was brainwashed by my church. The body of Christ crucified renders one dead to the penalty of the law (not to be confused or conflated with the obligation of the law), and those who are dead to the penalty will never sin. Sin is what makes the penalty necessary, while sinlessness is what makes the penalty or "curse" redundant or dead.
Regardless of whether God gave Israel a bill of divorcement is she included in “we thus judge, that if one died for all, then were all dead.” And if “all were dead” “you also dead to the Law by the body of Christ” ...she is loosed from the Law of her husband. When loosed from the Law of her husband ...all become dead to the Law by the body of Christ ...how is Israel called the wife of God and yet the NT church the husband is Christ?
Israel is called out of bondage just like the church (Gk. "ekklesia" i.e. "called out ones").
How can “all were dead” and “you also dead to the Law by the body of Christ” ...return to the former husband she was loosed from:
There is no return to the former husband; the former husband is the sacrificial system, i.e. "the handwriting of ordinances that were against us".
the Law of her husband. A widow indeed rather than “I am no widow.” Revelation 18:7 How much she hath glorified herself, and lived deliciously, so much torment and sorrow give her: for she saith in her heart, I sit a queen, and am no widow, and shall see no sorrow.
Those who continue to sin after coming to an accurate knowledge of the truth can't return to Christ. Christ's sacrifice will not cover their sin (Hebrews 10:26)
“Moses suffered to write a bill of divorcement, and to put her away. [5] And Jesus answered and said unto them, For the hardness of your heart he wrote you this precept.”
Those who seek divorce cannot remarry. Those who do remarry are adualterers and have committed an abomination.