Permanency of Marriage

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Originally Posted by PeterG

Certainly not, since Erasmus didn't speak any English. He translated the then-known Greek text into Latin.

Nice sleuthing, indeed Tyndale was the first to translate the bible into English, however he used Erasmus' Greek NT edition as the basis for translation. Hence some have said "Erasmus gave us the English bible" which may have led to the author's mistake.

Here's another source on Erasmus by Daniel Jennings:
https://www.danielrjennings.org/This...Remarriage.pdf

3. The first Western Christian to publicly question Western Christianity’s prohibition of D&R during this time appears to have been Desiderius Erasmus (1466-1536).
a. Erasmus was a personal friend of More and helped him to edit his book Utopia.
b. Unlike More, he was an ordained priest.
c. As a student, Erasmus sat under several Eastern Christian teachers who had relocated to Western Europe to include Demetrios Chalkokondyles (1423-1511), George Hermonymus (b. & d. unk.), and Marcus Musurus (1470-1517).
d. Like the Eastern Christians Erasmus began teaching that remarriage was possible after a divorce.
e. He went on record indicating that adultery ended a marriage (and therefore justified the innocent person in remarrying), even if the married couple did not want it to.
f. Erasmus also reconfirmed Pope Innocent III’s interpretation of 1 Corinthians 7:15 to indicate that abandonment by an unbeliever justified a believer in remarrying.