[Footnote 177: Adultery and desertion are the only grounds of full divorce recognized by BRENZ, _Wie yn Ehesachen ... zu Handeln_, in SARCERIUS, _Vom heil. Ehestande_, 152-57, and _idem_, _Corpus juris mat._, 183 ff.; with which may be compared the passages from the writings of BRENZ quoted by RICHTER, _Beiträge_, 19-23; BUGENHAGEN, _Vom Ehebruch und Weglauffen_: in SARCERIUS, _Vom heil. Ehestande_, 138-51; or _Corpus juris mat._, 171-84; CHEMNITZ, _Examen conc. trid._, II, 430; Calvin, in RICHTER, _op. cit._, 25, 26; BEZA, _Tract. de repud. et divort._ (Geneva, 1569), 228 ff., 275 ff.; KLING, _Tract. mat. causarum_ (Frankfort, 1577), 89 ff.; BEUST, _Tract. de jure connub._; _idem_, _Tract. de spons. et mat._, 147 ff.; SCHNEIDEWIN, _Com. in inst._; _idem_, _De nupt., lib. primi com._ (Jena, 1585), §§ 7 ff. These and other writers are discussed by RICHTER, _Kirchenrecht_, 1175 ff.; _idem_, _Beiträge_, 15 ff.; MEJER, _Zum Kirchenrechte der Reformat._, 147 ff.; HAUBER, _Ehescheid. im Reformat._, II, 209 ff. In general, compare GREVE, _Ehescheidung_, 225 ff.; POPP, _Ehescheidung_, 80 ff.; STRIPPELMANN, _Das Ehescheidungsrecht_, 54 ff., 128 ff.; STÖLZEL, _Ehescheidungsrecht_, 9 ff.; GLASSON, _Le mar. civ. et le divorce_, 224, 225, 329, 330; SCHEURL, _Das gem. deut. Eherecht_, 291 ff.; BUCHKA, _Das meckl. Ehescheidungsrecht_, 20 ff.; HUBRICH, _Das Recht der Ehescheidung_, 43 ff.; FRIEDBERG, _Lehrbuch_, 366-78; _idem_, "Beiträge," _ZKR._, VII, 56-127; and SCHULTE, _Lehrbuch_, 414-28.] [Footnote 178: CHEMNITZ, _Examen conc. trid._ (Frankfort, 1615), II, 430 says: "We have, then, two cases in Scripture where the bond of matrimony is dissolved--not as by men, but by God himself. 1. On account of adultery a man lawfully, rightfully, and without sin, can repudiate his wife." 2. Desertion of the believer by the unbeliever, according to 1 Cor., 7. _Cf._ WOOLSEY, _Divorce_, 131; RICHTER, _Beiträge_, 27, 28. On the adoption of these two general causes at the Reformation see HUBRICH, _Das Recht der Ehescheidung_, 44 ff.] [Footnote 179: 1 Cor. 7:15.]