For centuries, divorce in the West was a male tool of control, a legislative chastity belt designed to ensure that a wife had one master, while a husband could enjoy many mistresses.
Based on Jesus instructions, a husband needed to prove adultery to obtain a divorce. By contrast the wife had no options. Over the years women learned that brutality, rape, desertion life-threatening cruelty or adultery on the husband’s part did not count. According to Jesus, one would be hard pressed to say what did.
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