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Everyone who divorces his wife, and marries another, commits adultery. He who marries one who is put away from a husband commits adultery.
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A Rebuke to the Pharisees
Commentators agree this teaching on divorce is not random. Jesus uses it as a direct example to rebuke the Pharisees. They claimed to uphold God's Law but were actually twisting its meaning to allow for easy divorce, thus exposing their hypocrisy and failure to follow the very law they professed to cherish.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
See Barnes on Matthew 5:32.
These verses occur in Matthew in a different order, and it is not improbable that they were spoken by our Saviour…
Committeth adultery (μοιχευε). Another repeated saying of Christ (Matthew 5:32; Mr 10:11f.; Matthew 19:9f.)…
19th Century
Anglican
Whosoever putteth away his wife.—On the special points involved, see Notes on Matthew 5:31-32; Matthew 19:3–9.…
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This brief excerpt from Jesus’ teaching on divorce and remarriage is included as an example of one aspect of the law that the Pharisees tended to m…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
Whosoever puts away his wife For any other cause than for adultery, as the Jews used to do upon every trifling occasion, and f…
To this parable our Lord added a solemn warning. Ye cannot serve God and the world, so divided are the two interests. When our Lord said t…
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