Wherefore they are no more twain, but one flesh. Let not man therefore put asunder that, which God hath [a]coupled together.

[b]They said to him, Why did then (A) Moses command to give a bill of divorcement, and to put her away?

He said unto them, Moses, [c]because of the hardness of your heart, [d]suffered you to put away your wives: but from the beginning it was not so.

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Footnotes

  1. Matthew 19:6 Hath made them yoke fellows, as the marriage itself is by a borrowed kind of speech called a yoke.
  2. Matthew 19:7 Because political Laws are constrained to bear with some things, it followeth not by and by that God alloweth them.
  3. Matthew 19:8 Being occasioned by reason of the hardness of your hearts.
  4. Matthew 19:8 By a political law, not by the moral law: for this law is a perpetual law of God’s justice, the other boweth and bendeth as the carpenter’s Bevel.

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