Matt 19:9

Steve Puluka spuluka at hotmail.com
Mon Oct 4 06:12:53 EDT 1999


>From: Carlton Winbery <winberyc at speedgate.net>

>I would agree with Paul that the case of a wife who has committed adultery 
>is simply excluded from this statement. That seems the most natural way to 
>take the reading. MH EPI PORNEIA simply that the case of PORNEIA is 
>excluded. A large number of scribes came to this conclusion also. In the 
>footnotes of N-A27 B, fam 1, Bohairic Coptic, D, Fam 13, 33, the old Latin, 
>Sahidic, Mid. Egyptian, plus some other mss introduced the word PAREKTOS 
>into the reading. Someone needs to check and see if this reading was in the 
>Stephanus text and the text behind the KJV. What led the KJV to read this 
>as Escept could have been a different text.

The Jerusalem Bible renders this verse:

Now I say this to you: the man who divorces his wife-- I am not speaking of 
fornication -- and marries another, is guilty of adultery.

Does this capture the sense of exclusion you are speaking of here?  I have 
to admit that I am having troubling understanding the practical difference 
between exclusion and except.  Could you elaborate on the distinction?

Steve Puluka
Adult Education Instructor
Byzantine Catholic Archeparchy of Pittsburgh

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