Or if it takes the place of abandonment. It strikes me as legalistic to insist that a woman whose husband went out to buy cigarettes ten years ago and never returned stay legally married.
My understanding is that in Roman society, that would constitute a divorce in itself, which makes sense of Paul saying "no longer bound". I suspect a lot of the modern church debate is importing ideas that weren't intended in Scripture.
My understanding is that in Roman society, that would constitute a divorce in itself, which makes sense of Paul saying "no longer bound". I suspect a lot of the modern church debate is importing ideas that weren't intended in Scripture.
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