The Great Question Answered Or is Slavery a Sin in Itself Per Se Answered a
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Dr. Dwight gives, substantially, the same inter- pretation of Matthew xix, 3-9. He says, "J^o- lygcuny is forhlddtn in (this) tJie te, rt. Here, the man Avho puts away his wife, and marries another, is declared to commit adultery. In what does this adultery consist ? Certainly not in putting away the former wife. A man may, obviously, leave his wife, or a woman her hus- band, and yet neither of them be at all guilty of this sin. T/ie adultery^ then, consists in the 134 POLYGAMY AND SLAVERY. fac...t that the man marries a second wlfe^ while the first is living. But, this is always done in polygamy. Polygamy is, therefore, a continued state of adultery. [Theology, vol. 3, p. 420. ] Wlierevor the subject of marriage is spoken of, either as a doctrine or precept, there is no inti- mation that marriage is to be between more than one man and one woman at the same time. The terms hushaiid and loife are always used by the writers of the lN"ew Testament — not husbands and wives — in the singidar^ and not in the plural number, when the subject of mar- riage is under discussion.
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