"By GOD'S express command from Mount Sinai, where the laws concerning moral good and evil, were eternally and unalterably fixed, no man could take a virgin and then abandon her. He shall surely endow her to be his wife. Exod. xxii. 16. And again Deut. xxii. 29. She shall be his wife; BECAUSE HE HAS HUMBLED HER, he may not put her away all his days. Will any say �?"these laws are antiquated?" I answer, "they are as unchangeable as the God that made them." His law is His will, and therefore can no more change than Himself. The strength of ISRAEL is not a man that He should repent נחם change his mind, opinion, or purpose. 1 Sam. xv. 29. I am JEHOVA, I change not, is the character which he records of himself, Mal. iii.6.; and to shew that he hath stamped the same unchangeableness upon his laws, he says, Deut. iv. 2. Ye shall not ADD unto the word which I command you, neither shall ye DIMINISH ought from it, that ye may keep the commandments of the LORD your GOD. And again, Deut. xii. 32. What thing soever I command you, observe to do it, thou shalt not ADD thereto nor DIMMINISH from it." �?Martin Madan
PATRIARCHY vs. MATRIARCHY