. . . divorce is unlawful except
for the cause of adultery, or that reason) which pertains to the soul and which
is divisible into three kinds: sorcery, denial of the faith, and murder. Or to
that of the body: “Whosoever divorces his wife except for fornication, causeth
her to commit adultery; and whosoever shall marry her that is separated
committeth adultery”. (“On Matrimony and on Virginity, “in Mar O’Dishoo,
Metropolitan of Suwa (‘Nisidin) and Armenia, The Book of Marganitha (The
Pearl) On the Truth of Christianity [trans. Mar Eshai Shimun XXIII,
Catholicos Patriarch of the East; Xlibris: 2007], 52)