What Did Christ Teach About Divorce ? By F. H.
Chase. (S.P.C.K. Is. 6d. net.)—The Bishop of Ely replies in this learned pamphlet to Archdeacon Charles's Teaching of the New Testament on Divorce, which wo reviewed at length some time ago. Dr. Chase attaches more weight than his opponent does to the testimony of St. Mark, chapter 10, and declines to admit that the clause in 1st Corinthians, chapter 7, verso 11, " but and if sho depart, let her remain unmarried or else be reconciled to her husband," is the " interpolation of an ignorant scribe," as the Archdeacon thinks. Dr. Chase expounds the traditional view very clearly, but he does not weaken the impression left by the Archdeacon's book—namely, that a more liberal interpretation of Christ's teaching on divorce is consistent with the faith of a devout Churchman and with the results of Now Testament criticism
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