"Among the questions of the day fiercely debated between the great rival schools of Hillel and Shammai, no one was more so than that of divorce. The school of Hillel contended that a man had a right to divorce his wife for any cause he might assign, if it were no more than his having ceased to love her, or his having seen one he liked better, or her having cooked a dinner badly. The school of Schammai, on the contrary, held that divorce could be issued only for the crime of adultery, and offences against chastity. If it were possible to get Jesus to pronounce in favor of either school, the hostility of the other would be roused, and, hence, it seemed a favorable chance for compromising him." (Geikie, vol. 2, pp. 347-348, cited, Jesus the Christ, p. 484.)
Elder Dallin H. Oaks of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles:
“The
kind of marriage required for exaltation—eternal in duration and
godlike in quality—does not contemplate divorce. In the temples of the
Lord, couples are married for all eternity. But some marriages do not
progress toward that ideal. Because ‘of the hardness of [our] hearts’ [Matthew 19:8],
the Lord does not currently enforce the consequences of the celestial
standard. He permits divorced persons to marry again without the stain
of immorality specified in the higher law” (“Divorce,” Ensign or Liahona, May 2007, 70).
