“For the woman which hath an husband is bound by the law to her husband so long as he liveth; but if the husband be dead, she is loosed from the law of her husband.”
For example, by law a married woman is bound to her husband as long as he is alive, but if her husband dies, she is released from the law of marriage. — The marital analogy illustrates: a wife is bound (δέω, deō, "bound") to her husband during his life; his death dissolves the obligation and frees her for another union. Paul adapts Jewish halakha; the logic is straightforward—death terminates legal ties.
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