The Shepherd of Hermas

I said to him, Sir, allow me to ask you a few questions. Say on, said he. Sir, said I, if a man have a wife faithful in the[*](Man and wife) Lord, and he finds her out in some adultery, does the husband sin if he lives with her?

So long as he is ignorant, said he, he does not sin, but if the husband knows her sin, and the wife does not repent, but remains in her fornication, and the husband go on living with her, he becomes a partaker of her sin, and shares in her adultery.

What then, said I, sir, shall the husband do if the wife remain in this disposition? Let him put her away, he said, and let the husband remain by himself. But if he put his wife away and marry another he also commits adultery himself.

If then, said I, sir, after the wife be put away she repent, and wish to return to her own husband, shall she not be received?