Annotation XXIII

”Whoever puts away his wife, except for the cause of fornication, and marries another, commits adultery.” — Matthew 5:32

Whether adultery dissolves the sacrament of matrimony.

Hilary, in canon 4 on Matthew, elucidating these things, is believed to be of the opinion of those who teach that it is lawful to cast off a wife guilty of adultery and to marry another. Read below, Annotation 81. — Chrysostom is thought to hand down the same as Hilary, in homily 17 on the fifth chapter of Matthew. See below, in the same place. — Theophylact, in his commentary on the fifth chapter of Matthew, seems to write the very same. See below, in the same place. — Euthymius, in his commentary on the same passage, presents the same. See below, in the same place. — Chromatius, in his commentary on the fifth chapter of Matthew, [says] the same. Wherefore see below, in the same [place].