Origen, COMMENTARY ON THE GOSPEL OF MATTHEW, Part II, Complete

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And, about the same time, I think, the husband wrote out a bill of divorcement to his former wife, and gave it into her hands, and sent her away from his own house, and the bond of her who came from the Gentiles has been cancelled about which the Apostle says, "Having blotted out the bond written in ordinances, which was contrary to us, and He hath taken it out of the way, nailing it to the cross;" [6197] for Paul also and others became proselytes of Israel for her who came from the Gentiles. [6198] The first wife, accordingly, not having found favour before her husband, because in her had been found an unseemly thing, went out from the dwelling of her husband, and, going away, has become joined to another man, to whom she has subjected herself, whether we should call the husband Barabbas the robber, who is figuratively the devil, or some evil power. And in the case of some of that synagogue there has happened the former thing which was written in the law, but in the case of others, that which was second. For the last husband [6199] hated his wife and will write out for her some day at the consummation of things a bill of divorcement, when God so orders it, and will give it into her hands and will send her away from his dwelling; for as the good God will put enmity between the serpent and the woman, and between his seed and her seed, [6200] so will He order it that the last husband shall hate her.

[6197] Col. ii. 14.

[6198] The text is corrupt.

[6199] Deut. xxiv. 3.

[6200] Gen. iii. 15.

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