Matthew 5:31
Douay-Rheims
And it hath been said, whosoever shall put away his wife, let him give her a bill of divorce.
Augustine of Hippo
(Retract. i. 19. 6.) Yet I would not have the reader think this disputation of ours sufficient in a matter so arduous; for not every sin is spiritual fornication, nor does God destroy every sinner, for He hears His saints daily crying to Him, Forgive us our debts; but every man who goes a whoring and forsakes Him, him He destroys. Whether this be the fornication for which divorce is allowed is a most knotty question—for it is no question at all that it is allowed for the fornication by earnal sin.
Source details
A.D. 430 · as excerpted in the Catena Aurea on Matthew 5:31-32
Imported from an open dataset — not yet checked against the printed edition.