Ewangelia Mateusza 19:8

Biblia Tysiąclecia

Rzekł im: Mojżesz dla zatwardzenia serca waszego dopuścił wam, opuścić żony wasze, lecz z początku nie było tak.

Parallel Translations

Biblia Gdańska (1632)
Rzekł im: Mojżesz dla zatwardzenia serca waszego dopuścił wam, opuścić żony wasze, lecz z początku nie było tak.

Biblia Przekład Toruński
8 Powiedział im: Mojżesz z powodu zatwardziałości waszego serca pozwolił wam oddalić wasze żony, lecz od początku tak nie było.

Nowe Przymierze Zaremba
Jezus odpowiedział: Mojżesz pozwolił wam rozwodzić się z żonami ze względu na upór waszych serc, jednak na początku tak nie było.

Nowa Biblia Gdańska (2012)
Mówi im: Mojżesz wam pozwolił oddalić wasze żony ze względu na twardość waszego serca, lecz od początku tak nie powstało.

Uwspółcześniona Biblia Gdańska
Odpowiedział im: Z powodu zatwardziałości waszego serca Mojżesz pozwolił wam oddalić wasze żony, ale od początku tak nie było.

Biblia Brzeska (1563)
A on rzekł im: Mojżesz prze zatwardziałość serca waszego dopuścił wam opuszczać żony wasze, acz od początku nie było tak.

Biblia Warszawska
Rzecze im: Mojżesz pozwolił wam odprawiać swoje żony ze względu na zatwardziałość serc waszych, ale od początku tak nie było.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

because: Psalms 95:8, Zechariah 7:12, Malachi 2:13, Malachi 2:14, Mark 10:5

suffered: Matthew 3:15, Matthew 8:31, 1 Corinthians 7:6

but: Genesis 2:24, Genesis 7:7, Jeremiah 6:16

Reciprocal: Genesis 4:19 - two wives Deuteronomy 22:19 - he may not put 1 Samuel 1:2 - two 1 Samuel 25:43 - both 1 Chronicles 14:3 - took Matthew 5:32 - whosoever John 5:45 - in

Gill's Notes on the Bible

He saith unto them,.... In answer to their objection;

Moses, because of the hardness of your hearts, suffered you to put away your wives: in which may be observed, that, though it was by direction that Moses, in his system of laws, allowed of divorces; yet not God, but he is said to do it, because it was a branch of the political and judicial laws, by which the people of the Jews were governed under Moses, and whilst the Mosaic economy continued, and did not concern other people, and other times; and therefore it is said "you" and "your" wives, you Jews, and you only, and not the Gentiles. And so the Jews say m, that the Gentiles have no divorces: for thus they represent God, saying;

"in Israel I have granted divorces, I have not granted divorces among the nations of the world. R. Chananiah, in the name of R. Phineas, observed, that in every other section it is written, the Lord of hosts, but here it is written, the God of Israel; to teach thee, that the holy, blessed God does not join his name to divorces, but in Israel only. R. Chayah Rabbah says, גוים אין להן גירושין, "the Gentiles have no divorces."''

Besides, this was a direct positive command to the Jews, as the Pharisees suggest in their objection; it was only a sufferance, a permission in some cases, and not in everyone; and that because of the hardness of their hearts; they being such a stubborn and inflexible people, that when they were once displeased there was no reconciling them; and so malicious and revengeful, that if this had not been granted, would have used their wives, that displeased them, in a most cruel, and barbarous manner, if not have murdered them: so that this grant was made, not to indulge their lusts, but to prevent greater evils; and not so much as a privilege and liberty to the men, as in favour of the women; who, when they could not live peaceably and comfortably with a man, might be dismissed and marry another:

but from the beginning it was not so; from the beginning of time, or of the creation, or of the world, or at the first institution of marriage, and in the first ages of the world, there was no such permission, nor any such practice. This was not the declared will of God at first, nor was it ever done by any good men before the times of Moses; we never read that Adam, or Seth, or Noah, or Abraham, put away their wives, upon any consideration; though in the latter there might have been some appearance of reason for so doing, on account of sterility, but this he did not; nor Isaac, nor Jacob, nor any of the "patriarchs".

m T. Hieros. Kiddushin, fol. 58. 3.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

He saith unto them ... - Jesus admits that this was allowed, but still he contends that this was not the original design of marriage. It was only a temporary expedient growing out of a special state of things, and not designed to be perpetual. It was on account of the hardness of their hearts. Moses found the custom in use. He found a hard-hearted and rebellious people. In this state of things he did not deem it prudent to forbid a practice so universal; but it might be regulated; and, instead of suffering the husband to divorce his wife in a passion, he required him, in order that he might take time to consider the matter, and thus make it probable that divorces would be less frequent, to give her a writing; to sit down deliberately to look at the matter, and probably, also, to bring the case before some scribe or learned man, to write a divorce in the legal form. Thus doing, there might be an opportunity for the matter to be reconciled, and the man to be persuaded not to divorce his wife. This, says our Saviour, was a permission growing out of a particular state of things, and designed to remedy a prevailing evil; but at first it was not so. God intended that marriage should be between one man and one woman, and that they were only to be separated, in the case specified, by him who had formed the union.

Hardness of your hearts - He speaks here of his hearers as a part of the nation. The hardness of you Jews; as when we say, we fought with England and gained our independence; that is, we, the American people, though it was done by our fathers. He does not mean to say, therefore, that this was done on account of the people whom he addressed, but of the national hardness of heart - the stubbornness of the Jewish people as a people.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Matthew 19:8. Moses, because of the hardness of your hearts — It is dangerous to tolerate the least evil, though prudence itself may require it: because toleration, in this case, raises itself insensibly into permission, and permission soon sets up for command. Moses perceived that if divorce were not permitted, in many cases, the women would be exposed to great hardships through the cruelty of their husbands: for so the word σκληροκαρδια, is understood in this place by some learned men.

From the beginning it was not so — The Jews named the books of the law from the first word in each. Genesis they always term Bereshith, בראשית, which is the first word in it, and signifies, In the beginning. It is probable that our Lord speaks in this way here, In Bereshith it was not so, intimating that the account given in Genesis is widely different. There was no divorce between Eve and Adam; nor did he or his family practise polygamy. But our Lord, by the beginning, may mean the original intention or design.