And Jesus answered and said unto them,
For the hardness of your heart he wrote you this precept.
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Clement Of Rome
AD 99
`Moses gave you commandments according to your hard-heartedness; for from the beginning it was not so: for He who created man at first, made him male and female.'
So true, moreover, is it that divorce "was not from the beginning "that among the Romans it is not till after the six hundredth year from the building of the city that this kind of "hard-heartedness"