Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.
Ver. 24. Therefore shall a man leave, &c.] Whether these are the words of God, Adam, or Moses, it is uncertain, and not much material. a The husband is bound more to love his wife than his parents, in regard of domestical communion, adhesion, and cohabitation, not in regard of honour, obedience, and recompense.
And they two shall be one flesh.] Two in one flesh; not three or four, as the patriarchs of old, through ignorance, or inobservance of that plain prohibition. Lev 18:18 It is possible they might mistake the word sister for one so by blood, which was spoken of a sister by nation, as those clauses, "to vex her," and "during her life," do evince.
a Paraeus ad locum.