Joseph
September 17, 2009
New Birth, Spirituality
Tags: adulteress, alive, claim, codes, dead, dead to the law, discharged, fruit, husband, law, legal, married, stipulated, the, to, union, wife
Do you not know brothers and sisters,
for I am speaking to those who are
acquainted with the Law, that the legal claims
have power over a person only for as
long as he or she is alive?
For instance, a married woman is bound
by law to her husband as long as he lives,
but if her husband dies, she is discharged
from the law concerning her husband.
Accordingly, if while her husband lives,
she marries another man, she will be
called an adulteress, but if her husband
dies, she is free from that law, so that
if she marries another man she is not an
adulteress.
Likewise my brothers and sisters you
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