“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.
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