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Parallel Gospel text: Greek (SBLGNT) · orthodox reading
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Adultery and divorce — Mt 5:27-32
Mt 5,27-32·NA28·17/135·// Mc 10,11-12·Lc 16,18
οὐ μοιχεύσεις=non commetterai adulterio (Es 20,14)ἐπιθυμῆσαι=desiderare (Es 20,17)חָמַד chamadσκανδαλίζει=fa inciampare (Lv 19,14)מִכְשׁוֹל michsolγέεννα=Gehinnom (Ge ben Hinnom)ἀποστάσιον=libello di ripudio (Dt 24,1)גֵּט getπαρεκτὸς πορνείας=eccetto porneia (Bet Shammai)
Venerdì X settimana T.O. (anno I)
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GreekἨκούσατε ὅτι ἐρρέθη, τοῖς ἀρχαίοις, Οὐ μοιχεύσεις.
Orthodox Reading«You heard that it was saidⓘ to the ancients ancientsⓘ: You shall not commit adultery — the seventh commandment seventh commandmentⓘ of the Ten Words, the foundation of the integrity of the marriage covenant.
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Greekἐγὼ δὲ λέγω ὑμῖν, ὅτι πᾶς ὁ βλέπων γυναῖκα πρὸς τὸ ἐπιθυμῆσαι αὐτῆς ἤδη ἐμοίχευσεν αὐτὴν ἐν τῇ καρδίᾳ αὐτοῦ.
Orthodox ReadingBut I say to you: whoever looks at a woman to desire her — with the chamdahⓘ, the possessive desire that the tenth commandment forbids — has already committed adultery with her in his heart. I connect the seventh and the tenth commandment: the external act is born from the inner root of desire. The halakhah distinguishes the machshavahⓘ from the ma'asehⓘ, but I equate them on the ground of adultery: the kavanah ra'ahⓘ, the evil intention, is already a completed sin.
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Greekεἰ δὲ ὁ ὀφθαλμός σου ὁ δεξιὸς σκανδαλίζει σε, ἔξελε αὐτὸν καὶ βάλε ἀπὸ σοῦ· συμφέρει γάρ σοι ἵνα ἀπόληται ἓν τῶν μελῶν σου, καὶ μὴ ὅλον τὸ σῶμά σου βληθῇ εἰς γέενναν.
Orthodox ReadingIf your right eye — the organ of active desire, the strong member — makes you stumble, it becomes for you a michsolⓘ, a stumbling obstacle, tear it out and cast it away from you: for it is better that one of your members perish and not that your whole body be cast into the Gehinnom Gehinnomⓘ, the valley south of Jerusalem where in ancient times children were sacrificed to Molech and which in a later age became the perpetual refuse-heap of the city, place of judgment.
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Greekκαὶ εἰ ἡ δεξιά σου χεὶρ σκανδαλίζει σε, ἔκκοψον αὐτὴν καὶ βάλε ἀπὸ σοῦ· συμφέρει γάρ σοι ἵνα ἀπόληται ἓν τῶν μελῶν σου, καὶ μὴ ὅλον τὸ σῶμά σου βληθῇ εἰς γέενναν.
Orthodox ReadingAnd if your right hand makes you stumble, cut it off and cast it away from you: it is better that one of your members perish and not that your whole body be cast into the Gehinnom. This is the kal va-chomerⓘ of the halakhic hyperbole: if to avoid judgment it would be better to sacrifice a member, how much more is it better to sacrifice the very occasion of sin!
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GreekἘρρέθη δέ ὅτι Ὃς ἂν ἀπολύσῃ τὴν γυναῖκα αὐτοῦ, δότω αὐτῇ ἀποστάσιον.
Orthodox ReadingIt was saidⓘ: Whoever divorces his wife let him give her a bill of divorce — the getⓘ prescribed in Dt 24:1, the subject matter of the Gittinⓘ Tractate of the Mishnah.
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Greekἐγὼ δὲ λέγω ὑμῖν, ὅτι ὃς ἂν ἀπολύσῃ τὴν γυναῖκα αὐτοῦ, παρεκτὸς λόγου πορνείας, ποιεῖ αὐτὴν μοιχᾶσθαι, καὶ ὃς ἐὰν ἀπολελυμένην γαμήσῃ μοιχᾶται.
Orthodox ReadingBut I say to you: whoever divorces his wife, except for the cause of porneia porneiaⓘ — consummated adultery, according to the rigorous school of Shammaiⓘ, not for any trivial reason as the lax school of Hillelⓘ teaches — makes her commit adultery, because the social system drives her to remarriage in order to survive, and she is forced into adultery; and whoever marries a divorced woman without legitimate cause commits adultery.»