[Footnote 182: Luther does not allow absolute divorce on account of anger or incompatibility, _insidiae_, or attempts upon life, exile, sickness, incurable disease, misfortune to an innocent spouse, or similar grounds: see his _Von Ehesachen_, in STRAMPFF, 398, 399; _Vom ehel. Leben_: _ibid._, 400; _Predigt von dem Ehestande_ (1525): _ibid._, 400; and _Auslegung des 17. Cap. 1 Cor._ (1523): _ibid._, 397, 398, where only temporary separation is allowed, unless one of the parties refuses reconciliation and the other "kunnt nicht halten;" but in this case the "separation has the refusal of conjugal duty as a consequence, or it has become malicious desertion": STRAMPFF, 396, 351, 352, 382 ff. _Cf._ BRENZ, _Wie yn Ehesachen ... zu Handeln_: in SARCERIUS, _Vom heil. Ehestande_, 155 ff.; DIETRICH, _Evang. Ehescheidungsrecht_, 31 ff.; HAUBER, _Ehescheid. im Reformat._, II, 242 ff.] [Footnote 183: RICHTER, _Beiträge_, 14, who points out that, through reaction against the papal system the theologians for the most part were in favor of the Roman law, while the majority of the jurists were opposed to it. The Protestant leaders are thus divided on the question whether the canon law should be accepted as binding: HUBRICH, _Das Recht der Ehescheidung_, 45. On the admission of other grounds of divorce see STRIPPELMANN, _Ehescheidungsrecht_, 151 ff.; SCHULTE, _Lehrbuch_, 416.] [Footnote 184: ERASMUS, _Annot. in Nov. Test._ (Basel, 1515); quoted by RICHTER, _Beiträge_, 8-10.] [Footnote 185: RICHTER, _op. cit._, 6 ff.; BULLINGER, _Der christ. Ehestand_ (ed. 1579), lf. 102.] [Footnote 186: WOOLSEY, _Divorce_, 132; also THWING, _The Family_, 84. For the ordinance see RICHTER, _op. cit._, 6, 7. Similar causes are approved by BULLINGER, _Der christ. Ehestand_, 102, appealing to the laws of the "holy Constantine, Theodosius, Valentinian, Anastasius, and Justinian."] [Footnote 187: LAMBERT OF AVIGNON, _De sacro conjugio_ (Strassburg, 1524): cited by RICHTER, _op. cit._, 31, 32.] [Footnote 188: See his _De regno Christi_ (1557), II, 25 ff.; and the elaborate dissertation entitled _Etlicher gelerten Theologi bedencken von der Ehescheidung_: in SARCERIUS, _Vom heil. Ehestande_, 161 ff.; also _ibid._, _Corpus juris mat._, 196 ff., which RICHTER, _op. cit._, 34 ff., ascribes to Bucer; though MEJER, _Zum Kirchenrecht_, 183, doubts the correctness of this view. On Bucer's doctrines see the discussion of Milton below.] [Footnote 189: MELANCHTHON, "De conjugio," _Opera Omnia_ (Erlangen, 1828), I, pars II, 236 ff.; or in SARCERIUS, _Vom heil. Ehestande_, 159 ff.; or _ibid._, _Corpus juris mat._, 190 ff. _Cf._ also RICHTER, _Beiträge_, 32-34; and especially MEJER, _Zum Kirchenrecht_, 179-82, who compares the view of Melanchthon with that of Luther, showing that the former goes back to the Theodosian code.]