Wednesday, January 12, 2022

Allowance for Divorce in The Book of Marganitha (1298) and the Assyrian Church of the East

  

. . . 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)