5. And said, For this cause--to follow out this divine appointment.
shall a man leave father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife: and
they twain shall be one flesh?--Jesus here sends them back to the
original constitution of man as one pair, a male and a female; to their
marriage, as such, by divine appointment; and to the purpose of God,
expressed by the sacred historian, that in all time one man and one
woman should by marriage become one flesh--so to continue as long as
both are in the flesh. This being God's constitution, let not
man break it up by causeless divorces.
JFB.
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