They say unto him. — The question comes apparently from the advocates of the laxer school. They fell back from what would seem to them a vague abstract principle upon the letter of the Law. Was Moses, the great lawgiver, sanctioning what God had forbidden? Would the Prophet of Nazareth commit Himself to anything so bold as that?
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Matthew 19:7
7 They say unto him, Why did Moses then command to give a writing of divorcement, and to put her away?