Why did Moses, etc. To this they objected that Moses had allowed such divorces (Deuteronomy 24:1), and if he had allo…

They say to him — The question apparently comes from the advocates of the laxer school. They fell back from what would seem to the…

Every reader of the passage in the books of Moses referred to here will be struck by the Pharisees’ unfair interpretation of it. In Deuteronomy 24:…

St. John Chrysostom: The Lord had previously left Judea because of their jealousy, but now He kept more to it, because His pas…

The Pharisees refer to Dt 24:1–4, which they interpret to mean something like this: “If a man takes a wife... and she does not find favor in his ey…

Why then did Moses order?⁵⁹⁷ They had thought of this slander, if Christ, as was more probable, should demand that a proper cau…

They say to him That is the Pharisees, who object the law of Moses to him, hoping hereby to ensnare him, and expose him t…

The Pharisees were eager to draw something from Jesus that they could portray as contrary to the law of Moses. Cases about marriage have been numer…

In this pa age, it was shown how one comes to eternal life by the common way. Here, He teaches how one comes by the way of perfection. This way of …