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but I tell you that whoever who puts away his wife, except for the cause of sexual immorality, makes her an adulteress; and whoever shall marry her when she is put away commits adultery.
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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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18th Century
Presbyterian
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 …
Saving for the cause of fornication (παρεκτος λογου πορνειας). An unusual phrase that perhaps means "except for a matter of unchas…
19th Century
Anglican
Saving for the cause of fornication — The most general term seems intentionally used to include premarital as well as post-marital…
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Baptist
Committeth adultery.
Among the Jews, divorce was the easiest thing in the world. A man might, in a fit, utter words which would div…
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…
16th Century
Protestant
Causeth her to commit adultery. As the bill of divorcement bore, that the woman had been loosed from her former husband, and migh…
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
But I say unto you; that whosoever has put away his wife , &c.] Christ does not infringe, or revoke the original gra…
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 …
13th Century
Catholic
And it hath been said, Whosoever shall put away his wife, let him give her a bill of divorce. After having fulfilled the …
