8He saith unto them, Moses because of the hardness of your hearts suffered you to put away your wives: but from the beginning it was not so.
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And this have ye done again, covering the altar of the LORD with tears, with weeping, and with crying out, insomuch that he regardeth not the offering any more, or receiveth it with good will at your hand. …
Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.
And Jesus answered and said unto them, For the hardness of your heart he wrote you this precept.
Yea, they made their hearts as an adamant stone, lest they should hear the law, and the words which the LORD of hosts hath sent in his spirit by the former prophets: therefore came a great wrath from the LORD of hosts.
Harden not your heart, as in the provocation, and as in the day of temptation in the wilderness:
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 3-12)We have here the law of Christ in the case of divorce, occasioned, as some other declarations of his will, by a dispute with the Pharisees . So patiently did he endure the contradiction of sinners, that he turned it into instructions to his own disciples! Observe, here I. The case proposed by the Pharisees (Matt. 19:3); Isa. it lawful for a man to put away his wife ? This they asked, tempting him,…
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