Matthew Chapter 19 verse 4 Holy Bible
And he answered and said, Have ye not read, that he who made `them' from the beginning made them male and female,
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And he said in answer, Have you not seen in the Writings, that he who made them at the first made them male and female, and said,
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But he answering said [to them], Have ye not read that he who made [them], from the beginning made them male and female,
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And he answered and said unto them, Have ye not read, that he which made them at the beginning made them male and female,
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He answered, "Haven't you read that he who made them from the beginning made them male and female,
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And he answering said to them, `Did ye not read, that He who made `them', from the beginning a male and a female made them,
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 4. - He answered and said. Our Lord does not directly reply in the negative, but refers to the original institution of marriage. All his auditors agreed in holding the legality of divorce, though they differed in their estimation of the causes that warranted separation. It was quite a new idea to find the propriety of divorce questioned, and to have their captious question met by an appeal to Scripture which they could not gainsay, and an enunciation of a high ideal of matrimony which their glosses and laxity had miserably perverted or obscured. He which made them. Manuscripts vary between ὁ ποιήσας and ὁ κτίσας. The latter is approved by Westcott and Hort. It is best translated, the Creator. The Vulgate gives, qui fecit hominem. At the beginning (ἀπ ἀρχῆς). These words should be joined to the following verb made (ἐποίησεν), and not with the preceding participle, as it is intended to show the primordial design in the creation of man and woman. God made the first members of the human family a male and a female, not a male and females. The lower animals were created separately, male and female; "mankind was created in one person in Adam, and when there was found no help meet for Adam, no companion in body, soul, or spirit, fit for him, then God, instead of creating a wholly new thing, made Eve out of Adam" (Sadler). Two individuals of opposite sexes were thus formed for each other; one was the complement of the other, and the union was perfect and lasted, as long as life. There was in this original institution no room for polygamy, no room for divorce. It was a concrete example of the way in which God unites man and wife.
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(4) Have ye not read . . .?--The answer to the question is found not in the words of a code of laws, but in the original facts of creation. That represented the idea of man and woman as created for a permanent relationship to each other, not as left to unite and separate as appetite or caprice might prompt.