So then if, while [her] husband liveth, she be married to another man, she shall be called an adulteress: but if her husband be dead, she is free from that law; so that she is no adulteress, though she be married to another man.
KJV
Greek original
Louis Segond 1910
Si donc, du vivant de son mari, elle devient la femme d'un autre homme, elle sera appelée adultère; mais si le mari meurt, elle est affranchie de la loi, de sorte qu'elle n'est point adultère en devenant la femme d'un autre.
KJV
So then if, while [her] husband liveth, she be married to another man, she shall be called an adulteress: but if her husband be dead, she is free from that law; so that she is no adulteress, though she be married to another man.
Origen
Commentarium In Evangelium Matthaei (Lib. 12-17)
. Kor. 10, 3 —18 Vgl. Joh. 1, 2 — 19 ff Vgl. Rom. 7, 1 —3 — 23 Rom. 6, 9 — 25 Rom. 7, 2 — 25. 27. 28 Rom. 7, 3 4 κυριεύη H 7 ὁ 1 < Μ 8 ἐπὶ] ὑπὸ Μ 9 πράττοντι Kl πράττων M 18 ὡς ρ ὄς Μ H I τὸν < H 19 νοητέον Kl νομιστέον Μ H 21 ψυχὴν M c τῆ ψυχῆ M a H a, i. m. οἶμαι τὴν ψυχήν H c…
Diodorus of Tarsus
Fragmenta in epistulam ad Romanos
οψωνια της αμαρτιας θανατος. η ταχα τουτο λεγει οτι τα παρα του εχθρου οψωνουμενα θανατου παρεκτικα. Rom 7,1–3 Ἐκ τουτου κατασκευαζει, οτι ισχυοντος μεν του νομου προ Χριστου ουκ ην εξον ετερωι συναφθηναι, τουτ' εστι τηι χαριτι, παυσαμενου δε του νομου και τροπον τινα αποθανοντος…
Thomas Aquinas
Summa Theologica
had married, since also when the husband dies the wife "is delivered from the law of her husband" ( Rom. 7:3 ). Wherefore if the husband leave her after he has changed his life by dying to his former life, this is nowise prejudicial to her. Now he who goes over to the religious l…
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