Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
He saith unto them, Moses--as a civil lawgiver.
because of--or "having respect to."
the hardness of your hearts--looking to your low moral state, and your inability to endure the strictness of the original law.
suffered you to put away your wives--tolerated a relaxation of the strictness of the marriage bond--not as approving of it, but to prevent still greater evils.
But from the beginning it was not so--This is repeated, in order to impress upon His audience the temporary and purely civil character of this Mosaic relaxation.
Other commentary entries containing this verse:
Exodus 11:8
Leviticus 18:18
Deuteronomy 24:1-4
Malachi 2:16
Matthew 5:32
Matthew 19:1
Matthew 19:2
Luke 16:18
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