Not for the same reasons, but I still walk trailing behind much of the
time.  <smile>

Helen

At 09:50 PM 1/18/04 -0600, you wrote:
>I'm thinking not. They obviously had a different culture than we in the
>modern west do. I believe they still carry much of that culture yet today
>or still yet in recent history. I remember in Florida at a water park
>there, we saw a middle-eastern young man with his wife trailing behind
>covered from head to toe and the veil and all that. She watched from a
>distance and trailed a good ten feet behind him while he participated in
>enjoying himself. I think in those days if a wife tried to divorce, she'd
>likely met with  not such a good reception of the idea.
>
>Brad
>
>
>
>Helen wrote:
> >Brad,
> >
> >Were women allowed to divorce their husbands in those days?
> >
> >Helen
> >
> >
> >
> >At 03:02 PM 1/18/04 -0600, you wrote:
> > >Helen,
> > >
> > >I looked up the following verse and the word in question which Jesus said,
> > >via translation of course...
> > >
> > >"It was said, "WHOEVER SENDS HIS WIFE AWAY, LET HIM GIVE HER A CERTIFICATE
> > >OF DIVORCE';  but I say to you that everyone who divorces his wife, except
> > >for the reason of unchastity, makes her commit adultery; and whoever
> > >marries a divorced woman commits adultery." -- Matthew 5:31-32
> > >
> > >Unchastity is defined as follows according to Strongs Greek/Hebrew
> > Dictionary
> > >
> > >NT:4202 porneia (por-ni'-ah); from NT:4203; harlotry (including adultery
> > >and incest); figuratively, idolatry:
> > >
> > >KJV - fornication.
> > >
> > >
> > >Now. An interesting thing here. Does the same apply for a woman divorcing
> > >her husband? Hmm.
> > >
> > >Brad