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For almost two centuries the wealthy French and Spanish Jews lived in bigamy, and it is due to the increasing influence of Christian government, at least in Europe, that monogamy became the rule among Jews. How far the spirit of Christianity struggled against plural marriages is shown by the secret marriage of the Land- grave Philip, of Hesse, with Margaret von der Saal, in ad- dition to his marriage with a daughter of George, Duke of Saxony. This marriage was permitted by both Luther and Melan...chthon. Melanchthon (who was present at the mar- riage, March 3, 1540, ) fell afterwards into a terrible state of mind on account of this, which brought him to the brink of the grave. Luther thought afterwards, as well as before, that he could justify this permission in the sight of God; but his opinion, that what was permitted in the case of the patriarchs, might also be permitted to Christians in a case of extreme necessity, rested upon a narrow view of the difference between Christianity and the Old Testament religion.
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