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To: narses

Well, going by the text of the Bible alone, I guess one can make the case that the polygamy attributed to the patriarchs was never condemned. Myself, I can barely manage one wife. ;-)


617 posted on 03/01/2008 9:55:35 PM PST by RobbyS
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To: RobbyS

I am really OK with one wife as well. I shant research it, but Our Lord pretty clearly nixed the Old Law wrt divorce and polygamy in clear language, iirc.


618 posted on 03/01/2008 9:57:35 PM PST by narses (...the spirit of Trent is abroad once more.)
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To: RobbyS; narses
Well, going by the text of the Bible alone, I guess one can make the case that the polygamy attributed to the patriarchs was never condemned. Myself, I can barely manage one wife. ;-)

And that is why Luther made that call. Later, he regretted it and said that in effect, he screwed up and caused Phillip to remain in sin. The OT did not forbid multiple wives, though in later years (mainly around the time of the exile in Babylon) it fell out favor. By the time of the Maccabees revolt, the leaders of the time had outlawed polygamy.

Funny story. Someone asked Luther shortly afterwords if he would take another wife. He said something along the lines of "Katy would kill her! I have enough trouble with one wife!". Luther loved his wife very much (you can see this in his letters), but had no desire to add another one.

In the same lines, I have often thought the David and Solomon would not have gotten themselves into trouble had they just had one wife.

630 posted on 03/02/2008 6:02:51 AM PST by redgolum ("God is dead" -- Nietzsche. "Nietzsche is dead" -- God.)
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