10:5
The view of what Moses said was seeing it as a “right”, i.e. it was normal for a man to divorce his wife. In fact it was a mitigating law, a law seeking to reduce the ill effects of divorce. In particular, the divorce certificate gave some protection to the woman. Divorce would happen, it was futile to deny that it would ever happen, but that did not mean that it was a desirable thing. There were divorce laws “because your hearts were hard”. The same is true today. Divorce should never happen, but it will. So we need laws to deal with the situation, but it happens because of our sinful hearts.
10:6
Jesus then goes right back to the beginning, and the beginning of Genesis. There He quotes two key scriptures. The first is that God “made them male and female”. It is amazing how relevant Genesis is today, and how society is seeking to undo or deny Genesis. We were created male and female.
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