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Restoring God's Ideal
Commentators explain that Jesus is correcting a misunderstanding of Old Testament law. The Mosaic permission for divorce was a concession to human sinfulness, what Jesus called the 'hardness of their hearts,' not God's ideal. Christ restores marriage to its original, sacred design: a lifelong covenant that human laws should not easily dissolve.
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Albert Barnes
On Matthew 5:31–32
18th Century
Theologian
It has been said, etc. That is, by Moses, in Deuteronomy 24:1-2. The husband was directed, if he put his wife away, to give her a bill of …
AT Robertson
On Matthew 5:32
Saving for the cause of fornication (παρεκτος λογου πορνειας). An unusual phrase that perhaps means "except for a matter of unchas…
Charles Spurgeon
On Matthew 5:32
19th Century
Preacher
Committeth adultery.
Among the Jews, divorce was the easiest thing in the world. A man might, in a fit, utter words which would div…
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Expositor's Bible Commentary
On Matthew 5:32
This two-verse unit carries further the argument of the preceding section. The OT not only points toward insisting that lust is the moral equivalen…
John Calvin
On Matthew 5:32
16th Century
Theologian
Causeth her to commit adultery. As the bill of divorcement bore, that the woman had been loosed from her former husband, and migh…
John Gill
On Matthew 5:32
17th Century
Pastor
But I say unto you; that whosoever has put away his wife ,
&c.] Christ does not infringe, or revoke the original gra…
Matthew Henry
On Matthew 5:27–32
17th Century
Minister
Victory over the desires of the heart must be accompanied by painful exertions. But it must be done.
Everything is bestowed to save us from …
Thomas Aquinas
On Matthew 5:31–32
13th Century
Philosopher
And it hath been said, Whosoever shall put away his wife, let him give her a bill of divorce. After having fulfilled the …