They said unto him, Why did Moses then command to give a writing of divorcement, and to put her away?
All Commentaries on Matthew 19:7 Go To Matthew 19
George Leo Haydock
AD 1849
The Pharisees, not satisfied, again attack our Saviour. To this second attack he replies: Moses indeed permitted you to put away your wives on account of the hardness of your hearts, and to prevent a greater evil, lest through your cruelty you should poison them, or put them to violent death; but in the natural law, signified by the beginning, it was not so. (Denis the Carthusian)
