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MATTHEW 19:8 — KING JAMES VERSION 0
Matt 19:7Matt 19:9
“He 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.”
He said to them: because of your hardness of heart Moses allowed you to divorce your wives, but from the beginning it was not so. The hardness of heart explanation: Moses' divorce permission was an accommodation to the people's moral failure, not the creation's ideal. From the beginning — the repeated appeal to the creation order — establishes the standard from which the Mosaic accommodation is a departure. The hardness of heart that required the accommodation is the same hardness of heart that closes the eyes to the kingdom.

Church Fathers on Matthew 19:8

The Lord had before left Judaea because of their jealousy, but now He keeps Himself more to it, because His passion was near at hand. Yet does He not go up to Judaea itself, but into the borders of Judaea; whence it is said, 'And it came to pass when Jesus had ended all these sayings, he departed from Galilee.'

Chrysostom · 4th century · Hom., lxii

Here then He begins to relate what He did, taught, or suffered in Judaea. At first beyond Jordan eastward, afterwards on this side Jordan when He came to Jericho, Bethphage, and Jerusalem; whence it follows, 'And He came into the coasts of Judaea beyond the Jordan.'

Rabanus Maurus · 9th century

The Latin commentary that goes under the name of Chrys ostom’s resumes again at the first verse of this chapter]: As the righteous Lord of all, who loves these servants so as not to despise those.

Pseudo-Chrysostom · 5th century · [ed. note
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