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Mat_19:6. Οὐκέτι ] after this union, Mat_19:5.
εἰσί ] are they, that is, the two of Mat_19:5.
ὅ ] quod, “ut non tanquam de duobus, sed tanquam de uno corpore loqueretur,” Maldonatus.
ὁ θεός ] through what is said in Mat_19:5. Observe the contrast to ἄνθρωπος .
Having regard, therefore, to the specific nature of marriage as a divine institution, Jesus utterly condemns divorce generally as being a putting asunder on the part of man of what, in a very special way, God has joined together. With regard to the exception, by which, in fact, the essential idea of marriage as a divine institution is already practically destroyed, see Mat_19:9, and comp. note on Mat_5:32.