1-30 CHAPTER 19 _And it came to pass_, &c. This is the same history as that related by S. Mark (Mark 10:1), by S. Luke (Luke 9:51), and, as it would seem, by S. John (vii. 1). So Jansen, Francis Lucas, and others. Maldonatus, however, denies this with respect to S. John: but his arguments will be r... [ Continue Reading ]
_They say_, &c. The Pharisees object to Christ, _Why hath Moses commanded_? In order to make their objection the stronger, they use the word _command_, whereas Moses, as Christ observes in the following verse, only _permitted_ the bill of divorce. It was only that sort of command which is conditiona... [ Continue Reading ]
_Moses suffered._ He alters _commanded_ into _suffered_, or _permitted._ Moses suffered you to put away your wives, when you hated them, lest if you could not divorce them, you should kill them. For so great was the hardness and carnality of your hearts that ye would rather put them to death than be... [ Continue Reading ]
_But I say_, &c. Christ used those words upon two occasions. 1. Publicly in this place to the Jews and the Pharisees. When He here promulgated His new law, by which He revoked the power of giving a bill of divorce, and brought back marriage to its primeval institution and indissolubility. 2. Shortly... [ Continue Reading ]
_He said unto Him_, &c. _As thyself;_ Syriac, _as thy soul._ I have expounded these commandments in Deuteronomy 5:6. Christ in this place only propounded the precepts of the second table having reference to our neighbour, because in them are included the precepts of the first table concerning God. F... [ Continue Reading ]