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Rand al'Thor
Rand al'Thor
4:17 AM
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verbose
verbose
6:14 AM
@DLosc I revised my answer in response to your comment:
I'm still a bit confused. Is Milton saying that Christ forbade divorce, but only for some people (those who have attained perfection)? Or is he saying that Christ in theory forbade divorce, but none of us are perfect, so we can't live up to that standard? (In my holiness-movement, born-again Christian background, "his own" and "regenerate" would apply to all Christians, though "attain'd such perfection" would only apply to some. But Milton evidently has different definitions than I do.) — DLosc May 25 at 18:49
Without knowing more about the theology behind your church background, I can't of course speak to the definitions y'all use for "his own" and "regenerate", I can only say what (I think) Milton meant.
The revised answer quotes a scholar I greatly admire, Stephen Fallon. (He was my doctoral advisor, and despite that good fortune, I dropped out of the program with only a master's.)
 
 
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DLosc
DLosc
7:14 PM
@verbose Thanks, that's helpful. The section about "Jesus does not overturn Moses, which forbidding divorce outright would do" is particularly interesting.
And yeah, I wasn't expecting you to speak to my church background, just explaining why I was having trouble understanding Milton. :)
 

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