Adultery, Infidelity
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The Christ and the Adulterous Woman.
“You shall not commit adultery”[1] When a man commits adultery with his Neighbor's Woman, they shall both be put to death, the adulterous man as well as the Adulterous woman…[2]
In “The Gospel as it was revealed to me”
- The rabbi said it and so did the scribe: “The barren woman is, in the house, a curse from God. You have the right and the duty to give her a bill of divorce and not to afflict your manhood by depriving yourself of children.” I do what the Law says. - Jesus: “No. Listen. The Law says not to commit adultery, and you will commit it. The commandment given originally is that one and no other.”[3]
- “Not to desire another's Woman” goes hand in hand with “not to commit adultery.” Because desire always precedes the action. The man is too weak to desire without satisfying his desire.[4]
- As his desperate mother pleads with him, Jesus speaks to the young leprous debauched man who had an adulterous relationship with the young Woman of a client of his father. Jesus is sad: "And when you sinned, did you not think of your mother? You were mad enough to no longer remember that you had a mother on earth and that there was a God in Heaven. And if the leprosy had not appeared, you would never have remembered that you offended God and your Neighbor? What have you done with your Soul... with your youth?" - "I was tempted..." - "Are you a child to ignore that this fruit is cursed? You deserve to die without my mercy."
(He heals him of his leprosy nonetheless). "I performed the miracle because of this poor mother. But lust disgusts me so much that I am revolted. You cried out in fear and disgust at the leprosy. For Me, my Soul cried out in disgust at lust. All miseries surround me, and for all I am the Savior. But I prefer to touch a dead man, a just one already decayed in his flesh who was honest and is already at Peace with his spirit, rather than to approach a lustful person. I am the Savior, but I am the Innocent.
(...) I understand that you would want something else from Me. But I am incapable of it. The ruin of a youth barely formed and destroyed by passion disturbed me more than if I had touched Death. Let us go to the sick. Unable, because of the nausea that chokes me, to be the Word, I will be the Salvation of those who hope in Me. Peace be with you." In fact Jesus is very pale as if he were ill. He only finds his smile when he bends over sick children and invalids lying on their stretchers. Then, he becomes Himself again (...)[5] - (...) The husband who goes to other loves is a murderer of his wife, of his children, and of himself. He who enters another's home to commit adultery is a thief and among the vilest. Like the cuckoo, he takes advantage without paying of another's nest. He who betrays the trust of a friend is a forger, for he shows a friendship which he in reality does not possess. One who acts thus dishonors himself and dishonors his parents. Can he then have God with him?[6]
- “And a Woman who prostitutes herself, what sin does she commit?” - “If she is married, she is guilty of adultery and of theft against her husband. If she is unmarried, of impurity and of theft against herself.”[7]
- Incest and adultery.[8]
- Every man who looks at another's Woman with desire has already committed adultery with her in his heart.[9]
- Those who do not love their partner with their Soul, their spirit, and their body push him to adultery. [...] I do not even want to stop at the all too frequent case of your physical infidelities, which do not make you different from prostitutes, I speak of your moral infidelity to the oath of love sworn before my altar.[10]
- (John 8:1-11): They drag a Woman about thirty years old, disheveled, clothes in disorder, like a person who has been mistreated, and in tears. They cast her at the feet of Jesus like a pile of rags or a dead object... “Teacher, this Woman was caught in the act of adultery…”[11]
In other works of Maria Valtorta
Notebooks of 1943
Catechesis of September 25: Condemnation of adultery.
…Adulterous and cursed is he who, in an obscene theatre, lives two or several conjugal lives, and returns to his husband and his innocent children, the fever of sin in his blood and the odor of vice on his lying lips.[12]
Nothing legitimizes adultery. Nothing. Neither abandonment, nor the illness of the spouse, let alone their more or less foul character. Most of the time, it is your lustful being that makes you see your partner as foul. You want to see them as such to justify to yourself your shameful behavior that your Conscience reproaches you for…[13]
In fundamental Christian texts
In the Bible
“You shall not commit adultery” (Exodus 20:14 - Deuteronomy 5:18) - When a man commits adultery with his Neighbor's Woman, they shall be put to death, both the adulterous man and the Adulterous woman (Leviticus 20:10) - The eye of adultery watches at twilight. “No eye shall see me,” he says, putting on a mask (Joel 24:15) - Whoever commits adultery with a Woman is a fool, he ruins his life (Proverbs 6:32) - Such is the conduct of the Adulterous woman: she eats, wipes her mouth, and says, “I have done nothing wrong!” (Proverbs 30:20)
In the Catechism of the Catholic Church
- Divorced and civilly remarried (CCC 1650).
- Every act directly willed is imputable to its author (CCC 1736).
- It is not permitted to do evil so that good may result from it (CCC 1756).
- The root of sin is in the Heart of man, in his free will (CCC 1853).
- Master, what good must I do to have eternal life? (CCC 2052)
- Charity does no harm to the Neighbor (CCC 2196).
- Behold! I say to you: “Whoever looks at a Woman to desire her has already committed adultery with her in his heart” (CCC 2336).
- Offenses against the dignity of marriage (CCC 2380).
- Purification of the Heart (CCC 2517).
- If we ask with a divided heart, "adultery," God cannot hear us (CCC 2737).