Divorce and Remarriage Repentance Revolution

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by  Josiahs Scott

Josiahs Scott

There is a forsaken Truth that most don’t dare to embrace. And
those who do, find themselves going against the tide and facing
opposition all around. Will you dare to believe what the Bible
says about divorce and remarriage?

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Table of Contents
Preface Information and Explanations .................................................................................................................................. 7
1. Considerations, Contact, & Copyright............................................................................................................................................... 7
The Website for this Book – www.DivorceAndRemarriageBook.com ................................................................................................ 7
We are in ―Beta Stage‖ – Please Help Us with Corrections and Feedback ........................................................................................... 7
If You Are Poor, Please Contact Us With Questions ............................................................................................................................ 7
Technical Copyright Information ......................................................................................................................................................... 7
2. How To Use This Book ........................................................................................................................................................................ 8
Hebrew and Greek Basics ..................................................................................................................................................................... 8
Representing More Advanced Details From the Ancient Languages ................................................................................................... 8
MT vs. LXX – Old Testament Source Texts ........................................................................................................................................ 9
Genesis 2 Example – What Do All Of These Details Have To Do With Marriage? ............................................................................. 9
Notes Concerning Genesis 2 and the New Testament ........................................................................................................................ 10
Important Appendix Resources – Where I Document a Lot of My Extra Research ........................................................................... 10
A Heart for True Salvation ................................................................................................................................................................. 11
Chapter 1 – Demanding A Revolutionary Return to The Garden .................................................................................... 13
1. An Initiating Call… (An Introduction) ............................................................................................................................................ 13
2. The Ancient Marriage Teaching ....................................................................................................................................................... 14
A. The Original History of Degradation ............................................................................................................................................. 14
B. Jesus Restored the Reverence of One Flesh to His Church ............................................................................................................ 15
C. Scriptural References for ‗The History Of Degradation‘ and ‗Restoration of One Flesh Reverence‘ ............................................ 16
D. Approaching Today – How Does Jesus‘ One-Flesh-Reverencing Garden Revolution Look Now in Our Generation? ................. 18
3. It is Time to Re-Reverence The Creation of One Flesh .................................................................................................................. 19
Genesis 2 – The First Husband and Wife ........................................................................................................................................... 19
Mat 19 – Jesus on The First Husband and Wife ................................................................................................................................. 20
―Bound‖ – For Life ............................................................................................................................................................................. 20
GOD is The One Who Binds – No Wonder It‘s Permanent! .............................................................................................................. 21
To Be Glued/ ―Joined‖........................................................................................................................................................................ 21
Death Has Always Loosed a Spouse .................................................................................................................................................. 24
A Summary of Being ―Glued‖/ ―Joined‖ and ―Bound,‖ Together ...................................................................................................... 26
The Lawful Outcome of One Flesh – ―Marriage‖ is Cohabitation in The Bible ................................................................................. 26
4. Salvation Never Alters Your Marriage Covenant ........................................................................................................................... 34
The Marriage Covenant Applies to Everyone, Before and After Salvation ........................................................................................ 34
Marriage Covenants Are Love-Debts that Continue After Salvation .................................................................................................. 34
Salvation Has No Bearing on the Validity of Marriage Covenants .................................................................................................... 38
2Co 5 – We Must Believe that ―All Things Have Become New‖ – WITHOUT HYPOCRISY!........................................................ 39
College Debts Teach Us about Marriage Debts .................................................................................................................................. 40
1Co 7 – The Command to Remain With a Pagan Spouse Proves Salvation Does Not Change One Flesh ......................................... 41
Summaries of Salvation and Marriage – It is Absolutely Clear that these Standards Apply to Everyone! ......................................... 41
Chapter 2 – Divorce, Adulterous Remarriage, and Real Repentance............................................................................... 43
1. Some Basic Terminology ................................................................................................................................................................... 43
The Biblical Words Behind ―Divorce‖ in English .............................................................................................................................. 43
Defining and Understanding Geographical ―Separation‖ ................................................................................................................... 44
Remarriage After Divorce? – No Permissive Statement Given .......................................................................................................... 45
2. Deuteronomy 24 – A Brief Preview Summary of The Mosaic Law of Divorce And Remarriage ............................................... 45
A. A Brief Summary of Deu 24:1-4 .................................................................................................................................................... 45
B. Basic Notes About Deu 24:1-4....................................................................................................................................................... 45
C. The Great Mystery Surrounding Deu 24:1-4 .................................................................................................................................. 45
3. Malachi 2 – God‟s Surprising Opposition of Divorce and Astonishing Persistence in Affirming Original Marriage! ............. 46
Malachi 2 Prep – A Necessary Technical Textual Explanation .......................................................................................................... 46
Malachi 2 – A Source Text Summary: God Opposes their Divorce and Reaffirms their First Marriage ............................................ 47
Meshing Malachi Together to Clearly Demonstrate its Implications on this Issue ............................................................................. 47
4. Matthew 5 – The Clear New Covenant Proclamation Against Adulterous Remarriage! ............................................................ 49
Matthew 5 – Divorce and Remarriage Is Adultery ............................................................................................................................. 49
Matthew 5 – Immutable Truths that Jesus Taught About Adultery .................................................................................................... 49
Matthew 5 – Some Basic, Undeniable Facts about What Jesus Said .................................................................................................. 50
Matthew 5 – 4 Ways Men Become Guilty Concerning Adultery ....................................................................................................... 50
Matthew 5 – Some Ways Women Become Guilty Concerning Adultery ........................................................................................... 51
Matthew 5 – It is Clear and Certain that these Standards Apply to Everyone .................................................................................... 52
Matthew 5 – The Seriousness of Adultery .......................................................................................................................................... 52
5. The Rest of Matthew and the Gospels Confirm this Strong Opposition Against Adulterous Remarriage ................................ 54
Matthew 19 – Divorce and Remarriage is Adultery ........................................................................................................................... 54
Mark 10 – Divorce and Remarriage Is Adultery ................................................................................................................................. 55
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Luke 16 – Divorce and Remarriage Is Adultery ................................................................................................................................. 55
6. The Epistles Agree with Jesus and Make it Absolutely Clear that Divorce and Remarriage is Adultery, Without Exception!
................................................................................................................................................................................................................. 55
Romans 7 – Only Death ―Looses‖ (Ends) One Flesh, and Marrying Another Before this Makes a Woman An Adulteress .............. 55
First Corinthians 7 – Remain Unmarried: The Only Option After Divorce ........................................................................................ 57
First Corinthians 7 – Only Death ―Looses‖ (Ends) One Flesh ............................................................................................................ 57
7. A Summary of Some of the Main Divorce And Remarriage Passages, and “the Missing Exception Clause” ........................... 57
8. The Basics About Repentance from Adulterous Remarriage ........................................................................................................ 58
Religious vs. Biblical Repentance ...................................................................................................................................................... 58
What Is Real ―Repentance‖ ................................................................................................................................................................ 58
Deu 29 – You Can‘t Make Yourself Forgiven Apart From True Repentance .................................................................................... 59
You Can‘t Continue To Sin and Go To Heaven ................................................................................................................................. 59
Maintaining a Remarriage After Divorce Is Continuing to Sin Because Jesus Called it ―Adultery‖ .................................................. 60
We Have Got to Start Taking Repeated Acts of Adultery Seriously! ................................................................................................. 62
Jesus Called It Adultery and Ascended into Heaven! Anathema* to Anyone Who Tries to Change This! ........................................ 63
Repentance Pragmatics ....................................................................................................................................................................... 64
How to Repent of Adultery ................................................................................................................................................................. 64
God Positively Judges Adulterers ....................................................................................................................................................... 65
Choose This Day Whose Testimony You Will Believe! .................................................................................................................... 66
9. Distinguishing Sins............................................................................................................................................................................. 67
All Sins are Not ―Created Equal‖ ....................................................................................................................................................... 67
Condemned Sins ................................................................................................................................................................................. 67
10. How to Face Ignorant Adultery ...................................................................................................................................................... 68
Is Ignorant Adultery Still Adultery? ................................................................................................................................................... 68
Biblical Fact: Ignorant Sin Exists – If you Don‘t Believe, Repent! .................................................................................................... 69
Ignorance Means Less Punishment, Not Immunity ............................................................................................................................ 69
Punishing Ignorant Sin is in Accordance with the Divine Standard ................................................................................................... 70
Gen 12, 20, 26, and Mal 2 – The Bible Specifically Teaches that God Punishes Ignorant Divorce and Ignorant Remarriage Adultery
............................................................................................................................................................................................................ 71
Ultimately, God Spares Faithful People From Ignorant Sin – So Ignorance is No Excuse! ............................................................... 74
11. A Few Basic Principles That Demand Repentance from Adulterous Remarriage ..................................................................... 75
The Law of Non-contradiction – God Does Not Change His Mind .................................................................................................... 75
Our Awareness of the Sinfulness of ―Fornication‖ Testifies Against Us ............................................................................................ 75
The Root and the Branches – Are We Talking Holiness or Unholiness Here? ................................................................................... 76
12. A Few Grammatical and Contextual Principles That Demand Repentance from Adulterous Remarriage ............................ 78
The Present Tense and Continual Context of ―Adultery‖ in Greek .................................................................................................... 78
A Very Simplified Overview of Some Greek Grammar Considerations ............................................................................................ 78
The Context of Continual Action is Even Clearer than the Grammar ................................................................................................. 79
13. Confronting and Condemning the Hypocritical Excuses to Not Repent of Adultery................................................................. 81
The False Accusation of Teaching ―Unforgivable Divorce‖ .............................................................................................................. 81
I Warn Everyone Everywhere: This is What It Means and This is What it Looks Like to Remain in Adulterous Remarriage .......... 83
14. The Law of Moses vs. Remarriage Repentance? – First We Need to Go Over Some Basics ..................................................... 84
God Related to the Israelites‘ Flesh From a Distance ......................................................................................................................... 84
First the Flesh, and Then Adaptations For Its Sin ............................................................................................................................... 85
The Spiritual Solution is the True Solution ........................................................................................................................................ 86
Don‘t Misapply the Old Covenant Against the Flesh of New People ................................................................................................. 86
First, We have No Right to Judge the Law of Moses ......................................................................................................................... 87
The Law is Not Sin ............................................................................................................................................................................. 88
Hebrews 8 Says The People Are the Problem, Not The Law! ............................................................................................................ 89
What Does this Mosaic Marriage Law Show Us? .............................................................................................................................. 91
15. The Divine and the Mosaic Aspects of the Law of Moses Both Proclaim Truth to Us About Remarriage! ............................. 91
God‘s Special Friend Moses ............................................................................................................................................................... 92
―Of Moses‖ ......................................................................................................................................................................................... 92
Jesus is a Prophet Like Moses ............................................................................................................................................................ 93
16. Deuteronomy 24 Did Not Allow Reconciliation After the Defilement of Remarriage ................................................................ 95
Deu 24 - The Mosaic Law of Divorce And Remarriage ..................................................................................................................... 95
Things to Notice Concerning Deu 24 ................................................................................................................................................. 96
17. God‟s Call to Return To The First Spouse .................................................................................................................................... 97
Jesus‘ Amendment of Deuteronomy 24 (Specifically Verses 1-2) ..................................................................................................... 97
Jeremiah 3 – The Lord‘s Amendment of Deuteronomy 24 ................................................................................................................. 97
Return! – God‘s Clear Proclamation Through Jeremiah! ................................................................................................................... 98
A Notable Textual Variation – The ―They Say‖ in the Current Hebrew of Jeremiah 3 ...................................................................... 99
Jesus & Jeremiah 3 – Notice the Change! ......................................................................................................................................... 100
Hos 2, Isa 50, & Jer 3 – The Prophecy of Return, Even After The Officialness of God‘s Divorce Certificate! ............................... 100
Hosea‘s Prophecy of Return and Amendment of Deuteronomy 24 .................................................................................................. 103
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A Repeated Heart Expression ........................................................................................................................................................... 105
Malachi 2‘s Amendment of the Mosaic Divorce And Remarriage Permission ................................................................................ 106
18. 2Sa 3 – David‟s Example: He Returned to the First ................................................................................................................... 107
We Must Continually Submit to the Examples Given to us in the Bible .......................................................................................... 107
David Did Something that We do not Agree with ............................................................................................................................ 108
David and Jesus‘ Example About Sacrifice and Offering ................................................................................................................. 108
David and Jesus‘ Example About The Sabbath ................................................................................................................................ 109
Jesus Repeatedly Approves of David‘s Authoritative and Prophetic Examples ............................................................................... 109
2Sa 3 – David and The Lord‘s Example About Divorce And Remarriage ....................................................................................... 109
A Summary of Sacrifice, Sabbath, and Returning to the First After Remarriage ............................................................................. 110
19. The Mosaic Death Penalty Explains Deu 24:4 and Returning to the First................................................................................ 111
Deu 24:4 – ―That the Land be Not Defiled…‖ ................................................................................................................................. 111
Mosaic Death Penalty Legislated ..................................................................................................................................................... 112
Mosaic Death Penalty Enforced ....................................................................................................................................................... 114
Mosaic Death Penalty Amended ....................................................................................................................................................... 114
The Law – The Highest Order of Social Justice ............................................................................................................................... 117
How Does the Death Penalty Relate To Marriage? .......................................................................................................................... 120
Conclusions About the Death Penalty and Returning to the First ..................................................................................................... 121
20. A Summary of Returning to the First .......................................................................................................................................... 121
21. The Seven Examples that Demand True and Complete Repentance From Unlawful Marriage! ........................................... 123
Ezra and Nehemiah Broke Up Forbidden Marriages ........................................................................................................................ 123
We Must Still Obey Ezra and Nehemiah Today In the New Covenant ............................................................................................ 125
John The Baptist – The First Martyr for God‘s New Testament Teaching Against Adultery ........................................................... 127
The Adventure that John the Baptist Calls Us To ............................................................................................................................. 128
The Divine Proclamation of The Seven Examples! .......................................................................................................................... 129
Chapter 3 – “The Exception Clause” ................................................................................................................................. 130
1. Introductory Facts About the Exception Clause ........................................................................................................................... 130
What is ―The Exception Clause‖?..................................................................................................................................................... 130
What‘s Behind the Modern Use of ―The Exception Clause‖? – Wicked People Always Want to Break God‘s Yokes ................... 130
Common Myths About Adultery Freeing a Person to Remarry ........................................................................................................ 131
Adultery Cannot Be The One Exception Allowing Divorce ............................................................................................................. 132
Adultery Cannot Allow Remarriage ................................................................................................................................................. 133
BIG Dilemma: The Exception is Only in Matthew! ......................................................................................................................... 133
2. Does Porneia Show that the Exception Is for Adultery or Prostitution/ “Fornication”? ........................................................... 134
The Very Basics of ―Fornication‖ vs. ―Adultery‖ in English ........................................................................................................... 135
Scenarios of Sexual Sin .................................................................................................................................................................... 135
Porneia – One of the Main Exception Words We Need to Understand ............................................................................................ 136
How Translations Represent and Misrepresent Porneia ................................................................................................................... 136
Defining Porneia – Charting the Linguistic Development of Porneia, and Every Single Occurrence and Variation Throughout the
Entire Bible! ..................................................................................................................................................................................... 136
Defining Porneia – Several Summaries of Porneia.......................................................................................................................... 143
Defining Porneia – Clear Examples Where Porneia is Sometimes Used to Specifically Address Fornication................................ 146
Porneia vs. Adultery – Sometimes there is Contrast ........................................................................................................................ 149
The Question that Arises: How Can the Divorce Exception Be Before Marriage?........................................................................... 149
3. Jewish Betrothal Explains the Fornication-Exception .................................................................................................................. 149
The Gospels Were Written to Specific Groups ................................................................................................................................. 149
Matthew Was Uniquely Written to the Jews..................................................................................................................................... 149
Both The Verbal and the Written Gospels Were Audience-Specified Proclamations ....................................................................... 151
The Separation of Jews and Gentiles May Trip Us Up On Understanding Marriage ....................................................................... 152
What is ―Jewish Betrothal‖? ............................................................................................................................................................. 152
Basic Betrothal Concepts .................................................................................................................................................................. 153
Some Basic Biblical Examples of Betrothal ..................................................................................................................................... 153
Deu 22 and Beyond – Facing the Fact of Divorce During Betrothal ................................................................................................ 154
The Two Divorces in the Law of Moses – The Solid Context For Betrothal! .................................................................................. 156
Matthew 1 Requires a Qualification to Be Made in Chapters 5 & 19 – The Exception is in Matthew Three Times not Two .......... 158
Why Didn‘t Joseph Have Mary Stoned? – This Actually Teaches Us A Lot About Jesus‘ Exception! ............................................ 159
4. A Word of Prostitution/ “Fornication”? – Logos in Matthew 5! .................................................................................................. 162
The Confirmation of Porneia in the Betrothal of Deuteronomy 22 .................................................................................................. 162
The Discovery of Logos in Matthew 5 ............................................................................................................................................. 163
The Problem: Logou Porneias Seems Like a Phrase!? ..................................................................................................................... 164
The Answer to Logos in Mat 5: The Greek Old Testament! ............................................................................................................. 165
Judah and Tamar – A Word of Porneia in Gen 38? .......................................................................................................................... 168
A Summary of Logos ........................................................................................................................................................................ 169
5. The Context of the Exception Clause Demands a Betrothal-Exception ...................................................................................... 169
Reckless and Sloppy Claims Against Betrothal ................................................................................................................................ 169
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The Most Basic Contextual Needs – Submission and Diligence ...................................................................................................... 170
Matthew 5 & 19; Mar 10 – Jesus Did Not Re-teach Moses – Jesus Taught that Deu 24 Tolerated Evil, NOT that ‗Moses Really
Meant to Regulate Something Good‘ ............................................................................................................................................... 172
Stop Fragmenting Porneia; Submit to the Clear Command! ............................................................................................................. 174
The Common Fornication-Divorce that the Rabbis Constantly Dealt With ...................................................................................... 175
6. Matthew 5 Shows that the Exception Does Not Allow Remarriage ............................................................................................. 175
Matthew 5 and 19 Focus on Two Different Things Concerning Divorce and Adultery ................................................................... 176
The Ridiculous Attempts to Apply The Exception to the Second Half of the Verse ........................................................................ 177
7. None of the Ancient Source Text Variations of Matthew 19:9 Permit Remarriage ................................................................... 178
Variation #1: The Textus Receptus and Other Traditional Sources Allow Divorce, But Not Remarriage ........................................ 179
Variation #2: The Byzantine Majority Text And Some Alexandrian Texts Say ―Not Upon Prostitution‖ ........................................ 180
Variation #3: A Minority of Alexandrian and Caesarean Texts Have Matthew 5‘s Exception in Matthew 19 ................................ 181
Variation #4?: Mixed-up Versions that Allow Remarriage? ............................................................................................................. 182
Variation #1 and #2 – The Two Primary Exception-Options............................................................................................................ 183
8. So What Should We Do With All Of These “Exception Variations”? – Summaries of Solid Proclamations from Matthew 5
............................................................................................................................................................................................................... 184
From Mat 5 to 19 – Repetition of the Exception Proves that Remarriage is Not An Option ............................................................ 184
Matthew 5 Helps us With Matthew 19 ............................................................................................................................................. 184
Matthew 5 – The Divorce and Remarriage Teaching in The Sermon on the Mount ......................................................................... 185
9. Recognizing More Specifically Why None of the Variations of Matthew 19 Allow Remarriage ............................................... 186
Matthew 19 Translation Appeals Before We Go into More Details ................................................................................................. 186
Matthew 5 vs. Matthew 19 – The Difference Between Exception Words in Variation #1 ............................................................... 187
The Early Church‘s Understanding of the Greek of Mat 19 ............................................................................................................. 188
General Problems with Matthew 19:9 in English Versions .............................................................................................................. 189
The Parenthetical Nature of The Matthew 19:9 Exception Clause ................................................................................................... 190
―Only Upon Prostitution‖ Grammatically Accomplishes Something ............................................................................................... 191
Some Natural Examples that Agree With the Parenthetical Nature of the Exception Clause, Even in English!............................... 194
Examples Where Translators Know that Ei M , Specifies Rather than Making an Exception ......................................................... 195
Origen Confirmed that ―Only‖ Is A Reasonable Representation of Ei M for Matthew 19:9........................................................... 198
Charting the Greek of Mat 19 Helps Us More Exactly Understand This Verse ............................................................................... 199
A Summary of Why Matthew 19:9 Does Not Allow Remarriage .................................................................................................... 200
10. The Spiritual Parallel Confirms Both Betrothal and No Remarriage ....................................................................................... 200
God‘s Engagement is a Betrothal! .................................................................................................................................................... 200
Jer 2 – Divorce is Possible During Betrothal to God, But Not After The Marriage Feast ................................................................ 201
God is Not Looking for Others to Marry After Divorce ................................................................................................................... 204
The Jewish Surprise Marriage .......................................................................................................................................................... 205
Temporary Divorce: The Only Option Allowed and Exemplified By God Himself ......................................................................... 205
Real Christians (Who Go to Heaven) Follow God‘s Example.......................................................................................................... 206
11. The True Exception Has to be Consistent With The True Revolutionary ................................................................................ 206
Jesus Taught Something Revolutionary ............................................................................................................................................ 206
Will We be The Same Old Pharisees, or Revolutionary Disciples? .................................................................................................. 207
Chapter 4 – First Corinthians Seven .................................................................................................................................. 209
1. Summaries of First Corinthians Seven .......................................................................................................................................... 209
2. 1Co 7 – Paul vs. “The Pauline Exception” ..................................................................................................................................... 210
A. What is it? – Defining the ―Pauline Exception‖ ........................................................................................................................... 210
B. The Fact That Paul Uses Two Different Words Disproves It ....................................................................................................... 211
C. The Context of First Corinthians 7 Disproves It Beyond Any Doubt .......................................................................................... 213
D. That Which Motivated, Predated that Which was Created .......................................................................................................... 213
E. Summaries and Conclusions About the ―Pauline Exception‖ ...................................................................................................... 214
Chapter 5 – Applications of The Teaching ........................................................................................................................ 216
1. Warning: Pastors are Propagating the church! ............................................................................................................................ 216
The Compromised church – Locked in Bondage to Death, Darkness, and Sin ................................................................................. 216
Some Serious Biblical Warnings About Pastors ............................................................................................................................... 217
Don‘t Lie About Divorce And Remarriage ....................................................................................................................................... 219
Some Questions to Ask Yourself As A church Person and or Leader .............................................................................................. 220
2. The REAL Problem: Prioritizing People Before God! ................................................................................................................. 220
Pastors and church Leaders are No Different than School Kids Who Compromise Out of Peer Pressure ........................................ 221
The Root of The Apostasy ................................................................................................................................................................ 221
church People Have the Same Problem that Other Unbelievers Have .............................................................................................. 222
Either We Repent or We Fall ............................................................................................................................................................ 222
A Right Priority for Love – It is Time We Finally Loved God FIRST! ............................................................................................ 222
The Solution is Prioritizing Jesus… Who is The Truth .................................................................................................................... 223
3. Your Stance on This Issue is Not Morally Neutral ........................................................................................................................ 224
4. We Should Be Right Ourselves Before Opposing Other People‟s Sins ....................................................................................... 224
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5. Experience – The Bible Actually Works When You Believe and Obey it ................................................................................... 225
6. From the End of This Book to the End of this Age ....................................................................................................................... 227
An Overview of Appendices ................................................................................................................................................ 228
Explanations ..................................................................................................................................................................................... 228
Divorce And Remarriage Track ........................................................................................................................................................ 228
A Translation and Analysis of the Primary Divorce and Remarriage Passages ................................................................................ 228
Exception Clause Research ............................................................................................................................................................... 228
Extra Notes on Church History ......................................................................................................................................................... 229
Marriage Statistics ............................................................................................................................................................................ 229
Works Cited ...................................................................................................................................................................................... 229
Bibliography and Glossary ............................................................................................................................................................... 229
Bible Studies Referenced In This Teaching ...................................................................................................................................... 229

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2. How To Use This Book
The important, unique features that you will need to keep in mind when reading this book

Hebrew and Greek Basics
The big picture on how critical Hebrew and Greek details affect the contents of this book
Essentially, the Old Testament was first written in Hebrew (with a little Aramaic), and then we also
have it officially translated into Greek, while The New Testament was mostly simply written in Greek
(with the exception of at least Matthew and Hebrews) so at various times, we English speakers need
help extracting Scripture out of imperfect representations of the Bible.
I am a student of the original languages so as to be as accurate and truly Biblical as possible.
Whenever I correct or clarify a translation, I often do so by inserting corrections and or important facts
within [brackets] and sometimes marking out inaccuracies. I also translate some passages myself
especially when I cannot find a translation that accurately represents what the actual Greek says. I call
this, ―Jos.Trans.‖ which is short for ―Josiahs‘ Translation,‖ and this is covered in detail in the
Bibliography.
But beyond these basic translational needs, there are also more advanced details from the original
languages that often need to be represented in technical abbreviations and symbols…

Representing More Advanced Details From the Ancient Languages
Methods I use for communicating and abbreviating the more technical needs of Hebrew and Greek in
English

Note: Most of these things are explained in much more detail in the Bibliography (including many of the
symbols I use here).
Within a number of the Bible passages quoted throughout this work, I have added numbers alongside
many of the words to indicate a reference to the original languages. Each number that you can find is
based off of the standard convention as established and assigned by Strong‘s Hebrew and Greek
Dictionaries (James Strong, S.T.D., LL.D., 1890; See ―Strong‘s‖ herein). Each number is a standard
reference to a Hebrew or Greek word so that the English reader can quickly and easily secure a
dictionary definition with virtually no knowledge of the original languages, simply by looking up each
number. With this I have conformed to a contemporary adaptation of this convention by adding ―G‖ or
―H‖ (as done by e-Sword Bible software) next to the numbers to indicate whether I am referring to a
Greek or Hebrew definition.
I also use the common conventions for some advanced abbreviations and terminology representing
very technical details about Greek grammar (see RMAC and ALS herein). Please see the Bibliography at
the end for more details to better understand these grammatical tools for Greek that I use in this work.
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As you can see, I have gone to great lengths to hold myself accountable as much as possible to the
reader by including such details that I present throughout this work, so that if you wish, you may look
up and verify the statements that I make here, and see for yourself if they are factual.

MT vs. LXX – Old Testament Source Texts
Whenever quoting from the Old Testament, I consistently try as much as possible to quote from
whatever ancient version of each Old Testament book it is that is used and preferred by Jesus and the
Apostles. Please don‘t let this alarm you too much if this means that a number of Old Testament quotes
in this book will be somewhat different from most printed Bibles available today, since most of what
we use today is almost always based off of the current version of the Hebrew text of the Old
Testament, which is called the ―Masoretic Text‖ (see MT herein). Since this version of the Hebrew
was somewhat given to us and standardized through the Jews in the midst of their rejection of
Christianity (and the Christians use of the ancient Jewish Greek Old Testament), let it seem reasonable to
the readers that I would prefer to differ from the majority and defer to the wisdom of Jesus and His
Apostles when needing to determine which ancient version of the Old Testament is most correct and
appropriate to use in each quotation.
If in many places the New Testament demonstrates that we should quote from the Greek Old
Testament (LXX) and not the current Hebrew (MT) because of the differences, then so be it, because this
is one of the places that we could actually and accurately say in truth, ―if it was good enough for Peter
and Paul [and Jesus Himself] then it is good enough for me.‖
To most effectively understand many of the abbreviations that I use and some of the advanced
references that are made in this book, it is helpful to know some basic things like the fact that when
talking about the various versions of the Old Testament, ―MT‖ commonly stands for ―Masoretic Text,‖
(the current Hebrew Old Testament) and ―LXX‖ stands for the Greek Septuagint (the Greek Old
Testament that the New Testament and early Church frequently used). To learn more about these things
and many more important details, see the topics in the Bibliography entitled: ―LXX‖ and ―MT.‖

Genesis 2 Example – What Do All Of These Details Have To Do With
Marriage?
You might wonder why we have to go over all of these details about source texts and advanced facts
about languages when this is supposed to be a book about marriage, divorce, and remarriage? Well, it
turns out that the need for source text details can even be seen when looking at some basic,
foundational statements Jesus makes about the nature of marriage when we consider an important Old
Testament quote from two different source texts and compare it with the Words of Jesus and Paul when
they quote from this passage. Which one of the source texts (MT or LXX) makes the most sense to use
as our base text:

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Genesis 2 – in the MT, LXX, and GNT
OT – MT
shall be one KJ2000
What we Gen_2:24 …and… they
flesh… Translation
usually use
shall become
OT – LXX The[y] two
What the NT Gen_2:24 …and… [Greek: one flesh… CAB
usually uses ν ] σ[άGξrθeαek κ: ίεαἰλο] Translation
shall be one
they two
NT Mat_19:5 …and… [Greek: flesh… KJ2000
ν ] [Greek: εἰο Translation
σάξθα κίαλ]
shall be one
NT Eph_5:31 …and… th[Geyre tewk:o flesh… KJ2000
ν ] [Greek: εἰο Translation
σάξθα κίαλ]
Note: OT = Old Testament; NT = New Testament; MT = Majority Text (the Hebrew Old Testament we usually use today); LXX = The Greek Old
Testament that the New Testament usually uses

Notes Concerning Genesis 2 and the New Testament
 Did you notice that the Greek of Gen2:24 (i.e. the LXX) is exactly the same as the Greek of
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Mat19:5 and Eph5:31?
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 Did you notice that the Old Testament LXX agrees more with Jesus and Paul‘s quote than the
Hebrew Old Testament (MT) that we usually use?
 Did you notice that KJ2000 cannot even represent Gen2:24 (from Hebrew) the same as it does
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Mat19:5 and Eph5:31 (from Greek), and you have to look somewhere else (i.e. the LXX) to find
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the specific reference to ―the two‖ which Jesus and Paul are capitalizing on?
 Have you ever noticed that in Mat19:5 Jesus uses the LXX (Greek) to teach about marriage, and He even
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re-emphasizes the differences of the LXX yet again in the following verse by repeating the LXX word,
―wto‖:

Mat 19:6 WEB So that they are no more two, but one flesh…
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With Jesus even repeating and emphasizing the differences that are not in our Bibles, it is clear that
Jesus and Paul not only read the LXX version of Gen2:24, but they also clearly based their very
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teaching about the nature of marriage on this Greek Old Testament text, and not the current version of
the Hebrew that is behind our versions. As for this book, in seeking to compile the most authoritative
resource possible on marriage, it only makes sense to use the same types of texts that Jesus and the
Apostles trusted and passed down to us in their teachings, and viewed to be authoritative enough to
base their teachings on, especially because some of these elements that they declare to us are not in our
Bibles today.
All of this is only a very small example of all that has gone into the background of compiling this
book. Many more examples can be seen as you read, and are frequently marked in gray with words like,
―Technical Source text Note.‖

Important Appendix Resources – Where I Document a Lot of My Extra
Research
The Appendix Resources are the extra resources at the end of this book that have important helps and
documentation for those who are willing and able to do further reading
I highly recommend readers to frequently refer to the extra resources at the end of this book, especially
whenever there is information or terminology that a reader is not familiar with. It is almost impossible
to tackle many of the challenging things in this book without going into the complicated details that lie
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