And he answered and said unto them, Have ye not read, that he which made them at the beginning made them male and female,
Ver. 4. And he answered and said unto them] Our Saviour would not divide the inheritance, when required to it, Luke 12:13, but he would decide controversies touching divorces; for in marriage matters many cases of conscience fall out fit to be determined by the minister, whose lips should both preserve and present knowledge to the people, whose house for this cause should be always open, as the Aediles' house in Rome was to all comers.