John Gill's Exposition on Deuteronomy 24:2

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Exposition of the Old and New Testament
John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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And when she is departed out of his house, etc.] With her bill of divorce, by which departure out of his house it is notified to all: she may go and be other man’s [wife]; it was permitted her to marry another man, she being by her divorce freed from the law of her former husband; and who indeed, in express words contained in the divorce, gave her leave so to do; which ran thus, “thou art in thine own hand, and hast power over thyself to go and marry any other man whom thou pleasest; and let no man hinder thee in my name, from this day forward and for ever; and, lo, thou art free to any man;” (see Gill on “<400531>Matthew 5:31”).

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