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he liveth; but if the husband be dead, she is loosed from the law of her husband.

vs. 3 So then if, while her husband liveth, she be married to another man, she is called an adul-
teress: but if her husband be dead, she is free from the law; so that she is no adulteress,
though she be married to another man.

vs. 4 Wherefore, my brethren, ye also are become dead to the law by the body of Christ; that ye
should be married to another, even to him who is raised from the dead, that we should
bring forth fruit unto death. (emphasis added).

Although Paul does not repeat the part in the law stating that the woman given a bill of di-
vorcement is permitted to marry again (Deut. 24:2 -- above), he does describe the adulterous
woman. His bride, Israel, had been just that. She had already "married another" before a bill of
divorce was issued.

Then when He finally divorced her, she could not return to Yahweh -- even if she was di-
vorced from the latter husband. (Deut. 24:4 above). Leaving Israel in such a state that she could
cry "Our hope is lost: we are cut off . ." (Ezekiel 37:11). This is why Yahshua died, as Immanuel
or God with us: to release Israel (his former bride) from the law -- so she could marry another --
i.e. his resurrected body. For this reason we look forward to the Marriage Supper of the Lamb.
Revelation 19:9. This, in my opinion, is the meaning of the Gospel.

Another passage showing a reversal of the judgment Israel was under is found in Galatians
4:

vs. 4 But when the fullness of the time was come, God sent forth his Son, made of a woman,
made under the law,

vs. 5 To redeem them that were under the law, that we might receive the adoption of sons.
(emph. added).

Even though Paul here doesn't use the marriage analogy (male and female) he nonetheless
shows the need to redeem His people from being " under the law," which we now know to be the
law of divorce in Deuteronomy 24.

The reality of the redemption was so powerful that it created this great controversy be-
tween the remnant of Judah and those "gentilized" and "uncircumcised" Israelites who were ac-
cepting Yahshua as their redeemer. Paul addresses this in Colossians 2:

vs. 8 Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of
men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ. . . .

vs. 11 In whom also ye are circumcised with the circumcision made without hands, in putting off
the body of the sins of the flesh by the circumcision of Christ:

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