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{{Style P-HPB SB. Title continued|God’s Views on Marriage as Revealed in the Old Testament.|14-16}} | {{Style P-HPB SB. Title continued|God’s Views on Marriage as Revealed in the Old Testament.|14-16}} | ||
... | {{Style P-No indent|“If his master have given him a wife and she have borne him sons and daughters, ''the wife and her children shall be her master’s'' and he shall go out by himself” (Ex. xxi., 4). Not much sanctity of marriage there. God next tells us that when a man has sold his daughter into concubinage,” ''if she please not her master who hath betrothed her to himself'', then shall he let her be redeemed...... If he take him another wife, her food, her raiment, and her duty of marriage shall he not diminish. And if he do not these three unto her, then shall she go out free without money” (Ex. xxi.,) 7—11), The only thing the man is forbidden to do is to “sell her unto a strange nation;” he may leave her foodless and clothesless, and she may then “go out free.” Surely Dr. Fraser must have been reading his Bible, and have muddled up its teachings with those of Secularism.}} | ||
If a man seduce a freeborn virgin, and her father will not give her as wife to him, then he is to “pay money according to the dowry of virgins” and go scot free (Ex. xxii., 16, 17). Christians have improved on this in society by omitting the dowry and the offer of marriage. If the victim, however, be “a bondmaid, betrothed to a husband and not at all redeemed, nor freedom given her, ''she'' shall be scourged” (Lev. xix., 20). The man has only to offer a ram to the Lord for a trespass offering, and his sin “shall be forgiven him.” If the woman be free-born, and betrothed to another man, then both man and woman are to be put to death, but as to the bondmaid, “they shall not be put to death, ''because she was not free.''” There is no reverence for womanhood, nor for marriage, only respect for rank. | |||
In Leviticus god has changed his mind as to marriage between relatives, and forbids marriage between father and daughter-in-law, and between brother and sister. According to this Abraham and Sarah should have been “cut off” instead of “becoming a great nation,” and Judah and Tamar should have been put to death instead of into the genealogical tree of Christ. It is very difficult to know god’s real opinion when the Hebrews, who owed their existence to a marriage between a man and “his father’s daughter,” which was specially blessed by god, are commanded to abstain from such unions by the same god. | |||
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<center>''(To be continued.)''</center> | |||