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Originally Posted by Scott Hutchinson
The Husband of one wife could mean a one woman man.
Also if a man's wife fell into adultery ,he being the innocent party could remarry only in The Lord , I wouldn't feel such a one would be excluded from the office of Bishop or the eldership.
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I've heard that it meant a one woman man before.
As far as remarriage after a divorce, that varies from church to church and from district to district. Often it is based on "who you know", not principle.
The Jews had a very liberal policy on who could divorce and then remarry based on
Deut 24:1-2 which was pretty loosely interpreted in the first century (and maybe even in the church) as:
1 When a man hath taken a wife, and married her, and it come to pass that she find no favor in his eyes, because he hath found some unbecoming thing in her: then let him write her a bill of divorcement, and give it in her hand, and send her out of his house. 2 And when she is departed out of his house, she may go and be another man's wife.
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