| 18. Linguistic Exegesis The Greek opens with the universal term pas {Πᾶς | pâs} ‘everyone’ functioning substantivally with ho {ὁ | ho} and the participle apolyon {ἀπολύων | a-po-lý-ōn} ‘divorcing’ to denote any man who legally ends his marriage. The second participle gamon {γαμῶν | ga-mōn} ‘marrying’ coordinates with apolyon through kai...kai {καὶ...καὶ | kaí...kaí} ‘and...and,’ tightly linking divorce to remarriage. In each clause the verb moicheuei {μοιχεύει | moi-khéu-ei} ‘commits adultery’ appears as the main predicate after the participial description, delivering a repeated judicial verdict. The perfect passive participle apolelymenen {ἀπολελυμένην | a-po-le-lu-mé-nēn} ‘having been divorced’ in the second clause describes the woman’s prior state, while the prepositional phrase apo andros {ἀπὸ ἀνδρὸς | apó an-drós} ‘from a husband’ specifies the source of her divorce. This syntactic structure yields two parallel conditional judgments that underline the moral and legal force of Jesus’ teaching on marriage fidelity. |