Translations:Does the divorce of the foreign women in Ezra 9-10 show that civil government has authority to dissolve marriages or preside over "divorce trials"?/12/en

There was no divorce "trial" here, as Kayser asserts. These "marriages" where prima facie illegal according to Biblical law. No (legal) marriage covenant had been broken. No (legal) marriage covenant had even been created. The legal term to describe this is "void ab initio" (invalid from the beginning).