Matthew Poole and continuators on Mark 10:12

12 And if a woman shall put away her husband, and be married to another, she committeth adultery.

Matthew, Ch. 5.32. and 19.9. interpreteth this passage of Mark by adding those Words [except in Case of Fornication] none but Mark alone hath what is v. 12. which concerneth the Woman, which hath made some doubt, whether the Woman in Case of the Husbands Adultery, may sue a Divorce from him, but the most Judicious Interpreters say, There is an equal right on both sides. I am sure the Reason is equal on both sides. The Adultery of the Husband dissolveth the Tye and Covenant of Marriage, as well as the Adultery of the Wife. It is yet a more groundless, and unreasonable opinion of some from the Words of this, and the paralel Texts, that Persons Divorced may not Marry again, as if Gods end in the Law of Divorce, in case of Adultery were meerly to separate the Wife from the Husbands Bed; whether the Person that hath given the cause for the Divorce, may marry again, may be more disputed, not only because such Persons are Dead Persons in the Law of God, but because such a Liberty granted, would open a Flood-Gate to Iniquity of that kind, while Persons weary of their Correlates, should by this means gratify their Lusts, and also obtain their desires. But I shall not determine it, certain it is our Saviour here speaketh only of Divorces for Trivial causes, which the Law of God doth not warrant, and in such cases the Person Marrying again, must necessarily commit Adultery, because the Band of the former Union holds. As to the question, [illegible: 1 word] Divorces be lawful in no Cases, but that of Adultery. See the Notes on Matth. 5. and on Chap. 19.