Re: Porneia

From: Maurice A. O'Sullivan (mauros@iol.ie)
Date: Sun Jan 04 1998 - 18:02:19 EST


At 08:36 05/01/98 +1100, George Athas wrote:
>Greetings all!
>
>I have a colleague who has recently suggested a new understanding of the
>word PORNEIA. This word is commonly translated as "marital
>unfaithfulness", "fornication," etc. My colleague has suggested that
>PORNEIA refers to unlawful marriage - of the type found in Leviticus 18.
>Thus, when Jesus forbids marriage on all grounds except for PORNEIA in
>Matt 19:9, he is actually saying that divorce is never to be so much as
>even contemplated unless that marriage should never have happened in the
>first place (because it was an unlawful relationship to start with).
<snip>

This is very full developed in " The Matthean Divorce Texts and Some New
Palestinian Evidence ", p79-111 of:
Fitzmyer, J.A., To Advance the Gospel (Crossroads, N.Y 1981)

Regards,

Maurice

Maurice A. O'Sullivan [ Bray, Ireland ]
mauros@iol.ie

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