AN EVERLASTING COVENANT OF MARRIAGE, Page 38, Chapter 6 of Jesus was Married

One of these gospel laws, among the many which had been deleted or diluted, was the practice and principle of plural marriage. It had been taught and practiced by the ancient prophets, patriarchs and the apostles. This law was commonly known and lived from the times of the ancient patriarchs and continued down throughout the Christian Dispensation. [39]Although the practice of plural marriage was commonly known and believed by many people in the Jewish society, it was never condemned by Jesus. The Savior had surely witnessed plural marriage, heard it taught, and of course had read of the many examples of this law in the scriptures; yet there is no evidence that he opposed or refuted that practice. He spoke of strict moral issues which pertained to every physical or mental sin involving sex, but the word polygamy was never refuted, nor did he utter a word against those prophets and patriarchs who had obeyed this principle of marriage. Because Jesus took no issue against polygamy, it is therefore implied that Jesus must have sanctioned that law. This fact was generally understood and accepted by many scriptorians and reformers. Our chief reformers, Luther, Melanchthon, Bucer, Zuinglius, etc., after a solemn consultation at Wittenburg, on the question “whether for a man to have two wives at once, was contrary to the divine law?” answered unanimously “that it was not”—and on this authority, Philip the Landrave of Hesse actually married a second wife, his first being alive. The language of this council was “The Gospel hath neither recalled nor forbid what was permitted in the law of Moses with respect to marriage.” (Theylyphthora, Vol. 1:212, by Rev. Martin Madan)   www.ogdenkraut.com   www.Youtube.com/user/GodismyCompass   www.Facebook.com/Lazurus1977