Luke 16:18 — Community Reflections

LUKE 16:18 — KING JAMES VERSION 0

“Whosoever putteth away his wife, and marrieth another, committeth adultery: and whosoever marrieth her that is put away from her husband committeth adultery.”

Anyone who divorces his wife and marries another woman commits adultery, and the man who marries a divorced woman commits adultery — the divorce saying: the Law's continuing validity applied to the specific case of remarriage after divorce. The kingdom's ethics tighten rather than relax the Law's demands.

Church Fathers on Luke 16:18

Christ had told the Pharisees not to boast of their own righteousness, but to receive penitent sinners, and to redeem their sins by almsgiving. But they derided the Preacher of mercy, humility, and frugality; as it is said, And the Pharisees also, who were covetous, heard these things; and derided him: it may be for two reasons, either because He commanded what was not sufficiently profitable, or cast blame upon their past superfluous actions.
Bede · 8th century

But the Lord detecting in them a hidden malice, proves that they make a presence of righteousness. Therefore it is added, And he said to them, you are they which justify yourselves before men.
Theophylact · 11th century

Not that the Law failed, but that the preaching of the Gospel began, for that which is inferior seems to be completed when a better succeeds.
Ambrose · 4th century

Read all 14 entries in the readerCatena Aurea · St. Thomas Aquinas, tr. J. H. Newman · public domain

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