the Week of Proper 10 / Ordinary 15
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Matthew 19:5
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and he also said, ‘For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two will become one flesh’?
And said, For this cause shall a man leaue father and mother, and shall cleaue to his wife: and they twaine shalbe one flesh.
And said, For this cause shall a man leave father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife: and they twain shall be one flesh?
and said, ‘Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh'?
and said, 'FOR THIS REASON A MAN SHALL LEAVE HIS FATHER AND HIS MOTHER AND BE JOINED TO HIS WIFE, AND THE TWO SHALL BECOME ONE FLESH'?
And God said, ‘So a man will leave his father and mother and be united with his wife, and the two will become one body.'
and said, 'FOR THIS REASON A MAN SHALL LEAVE HIS FATHER AND MOTHER AND SHALL BE JOINED INSEPARABLY TO HIS WIFE, AND THE TWO SHALL BECOME ONE FLESH'?
And sayd, For this cause, shal a man leaue father and mother, and cleaue vnto his wife, and they which were two shalbe one flesh.
and said, 'FOR THIS REASON A MAN SHALL LEAVE HIS FATHER AND MOTHER AND BE JOINED TO HIS WIFE, AND THE TWO SHALL BECOME ONE FLESH'?
and said, ‘For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh'?
and said, 'For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh'?
That's why a man leaves his father and mother and gets married. He becomes like one person with his wife.
and that he said, ‘For this reason a man should leave his father and mother and be united with his wife, and the two are to become one flesh' ?
and said, On account of this a man shall leave father and mother, and shall be united to his wife, and the two shall be one flesh?
And God said, ‘That is why a man will leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife. And the two people will become one.'
And he said, Because of this, a man shall leave his father and his mother, and shall be joined to his wife, and the two shall be one flesh.
And God said, ‘For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and unite with his wife, and the two will become one.'
and said, ‘On account of this a man will leave his father and his mother and will be joined to his wife, and the two will become one flesh'?
And He said, "For this reason a man shall leave father and mother, and shall be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh." Gen. 2:24
and said, For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife; and the two shall become one flesh?
For this cause will a man go away from his father and mother, and be joined to his wife; and the two will become one flesh?
and said, 'For this cause a man will leave his father and mother, and will join to his wife; and the two will become one flesh?'
and said, 'That is why a man will leave his father and mother and be united with his wife, and the two will become one flesh'?Genesis 2:24">[fn]Genesis 2:24; Mark 10:5-9; 1 Corinthians 6:16; 7:2; Ephesians 5:31;">[xr]
And he said, On this account a man shall leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave to his wife, and they two shall be one flesh.
And he said: For this reason, a man shall leave his father and his mother, and adhere to his wife; and they two shall be one flesh.
And sayde: For this cause, shall a man leaue father and mother, and shall be knit to his wyfe: and they twayne shall be one fleshe.
and said, For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife; and the twain shall become one flesh?
and said, 'For this cause a man will leave his father and mother, and will join to his wife; and the two will become one flesh?'
And said, For this cause a man shall leave father and mother and cleave to his wife, and they twain shall be one flesh?
and said, For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two shall be one'?
And he seide, For this thing a man schal leeue fadir and modir, and he schal draw to his wijf; and thei schulen be tweyne in o fleisch.
and said, For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife; and the two shall become one flesh?
And said, For this [cause] shall a man leave father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife: and they two shall be one flesh?
and said, ‘ For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and will be united with his wife, and the two will become one flesh '?
and said, 'For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh'? Genesis 2:24">[fn]
And he said, "‘This explains why a man leaves his father and mother and is joined to his wife, and the two are united into one.'
It says, ‘For this reason a man will leave his father and his mother and will live with his wife. The two will become one.'
and said, ‘For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh'?
and said - For this cause, will a man leave his father and his mother, and be united to his wife, - and, the two, will become, one flesh;
For this cause shall a man leave father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife, and they two shall be in one flesh.
and said, 'For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh'?
and sayde: for this thinge shall a ma leve father and mother and cleve vnto his wyfe and they twayne shalbe one flesshe.
and said, For this cause shall a man leave father and mother, and cleave to his wife, and they shall be -- the two -- for one flesh?
& sayde: For this cause shal a ma leaue father & mother, & cleue vnto his wife, & they two shalbe one fleshe.
he said, "for this cause shall a man leave father and mother, and be attach'd to his wife: and they two shall be one flesh?"
said that whenever they get married, they become one.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
said: Genesis 2:21-24, Psalms 45:10, Mark 10:5-9, Ephesians 5:31
cleave: ï®×¡××£××××××××£×פ×× [Strong's G4347], "shall be cemented to his wife," as the Hebrew davak implies; a beautiful metaphor, forcibly intimating that nothing but death can separate them. Genesis 34:3, Deuteronomy 4:4, Deuteronomy 10:20, Deuteronomy 11:22, 1 Samuel 18:1, 2 Samuel 1:26, 1 Kings 11:2, Psalms 63:8, Romans 12:9
and they: 1 Corinthians 6:16, 1 Corinthians 7:2, 1 Corinthians 7:4
Reciprocal: Genesis 31:50 - afflict Deuteronomy 17:17 - multiply wives Judges 8:30 - many wives 1 Samuel 25:43 - both 1 Chronicles 14:3 - took Mark 10:7 - General Ephesians 5:28 - as
Cross-References
The sun was high in the sky when Lot arrived at Zoar.
Then God rained brimstone and fire down on Sodom and Gomorrah—a river of lava from God out of the sky!—and destroyed these cities and the entire plain and everyone who lived in the cities and everything that grew from the ground.
But Lot's wife looked back and turned into a pillar of salt.
Abraham got up early the next morning and went to the place he had so recently stood with God . He looked out over Sodom and Gomorrah, surveying the whole plain. All he could see was smoke belching from the Earth, like smoke from a furnace.
"Don't have sex with a man as one does with a woman. That is abhorrent.
"If a man has sex with a man as one does with a woman, both of them have done what is abhorrent. They must be put to death; they are responsible for their own deaths.
They were relaxed and enjoying themselves when the men of the city, a gang of local hell-raisers all, surrounded the house and started pounding on the door. They yelled for the owner of the house, the old man, "Bring out the man who came to your house. We want to have sex with him."
"‘The sin of your sister Sodom was this: She lived with her daughters in the lap of luxury—proud, gluttonous, and lazy. They ignored the oppressed and the poor. They put on airs and lived obscene lives. And you know what happened: I did away with them.
"‘And Samaria. Samaria didn't sin half as much as you. You've committed far more obscenities than she ever did. Why, you make your two sisters look good in comparison with what you've done! Face it, your sisters look mighty good compared with you. Because you've outsinned them so completely, you've actually made them look righteous. Aren't you ashamed? But you're going to have to live with it. What a reputation to carry into history: outsinning your two sisters!
Don't you realize that this is not the way to live? Unjust people who don't care about God will not be joining in his kingdom. Those who use and abuse each other, use and abuse sex, use and abuse the earth and everything in it, don't qualify as citizens in God's kingdom. A number of you know from experience what I'm talking about, for not so long ago you were on that list. Since then, you've been cleaned up and given a fresh start by Jesus, our Master, our Messiah, and by our God present in us, the Spirit.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
And said,.... Genesis 2:24 where they seem to be the words of Adam, though here they are ascribed to God, who made Adam and Eve; and as if they were spoken by him, when he brought them together; and which is easily reconciled by observing, that these words were spoken by Adam, under the direction of a divine revelation; showing, that there would be fathers, and mothers, and children; and that the latter, when grown up, would enter into a marriage state, and leave their parents, and cleave to their proper yoke fellows, which relations then were not in being: this therefore being the effect of a pure revelation from God, may be truly affirmed to be said by him. Some think they are the words of Moses the historian; and if they were, as they were delivered by divine inspiration, they may be rightly called the word of God. A note by Jarchi on this text exactly agrees herewith, which is ×ק×ש ×××רת ××
ר××, "the holy Spirit says thus: for this cause shall a man leave father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife"; and not wives: and the phrase denotes that close union between a man and his wife, which is not to be dissolved for every cause, it being stricter than that which is between parents and children; for the wife must be cleaved unto, and father and mother forsaken: not that upon this new relation between man and wife, the former relation between parents and children ceases; nor does this phrase denote an entire separation from them, so as to have the affection alienated from them, or to be disengaged from all duty and obedience to them, and care and regard for them, for the future; but a relinquishing the "house of his father and the bed of his mother", as all the three Targums on the place explain it: that is, he shall quit the house of his father, and not bed and board there, and live with him as before; but having taken a wife to himself, shall live and cohabit with her:
and they twain shall be one flesh; the word "twain" is: not in the Hebrew text in Genesis, but in the Septuagint version compiled by Jews, in the Samaritan Pentateuch, and version, and in the Targum of Jonathan ben Uzziel, who renders, it as here, תר×××××× ××××©×¨× ××
×××××, "and they two shall be one flesh". This is the true sense, for neither more nor less can possibly be meant; and denotes that near conjunction, and strict union, between a man and his wife, the wife being a part of himself, and both as one flesh, and one body, and therefore not to be parted on every slight occasion; and has a particular respect to the act of carnal copulation, which only ought to be between one man and one woman, lawfully married to each other;
Genesis 2:24- :.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
And he answered and said ... - Instead of referring to the opinions of either party, Jesus called their attention to the original design of marriage, to the authority of Moses an authority acknowledged by them both.
Have ye not read? - Genesis 1:27; Genesis 2:21-22. âAnd said, For this cause,â etc., Genesis 2:24. That is, God, at the beginning, made but one man and one woman: their posterity should learn that the original intention of marriage was that a man should have but one wife.
Shall leave his father and mother - This means, shall bind himself more strongly to his wife than he was to his father or mother. The marriage connection is the most tender and endearing of all human relations more tender than even that bond which unites us to a parent.
And shall cleave unto his wife - The word âcleaveâ denotes a union of the firmest kind. It is in the original taken from gluing, and means so firmly to adhere together that nothing can separate them.
They twain shall be one flesh - That is, they two, or they that were two, shall be united as one - one in law, in feeling, in interest, in affection. They shall no longer have separate interests, but shall act in all things as if they were one - animated by one soul and one wish. The argument of Jesus here is, that since they are so intimately united as to be one, and since in the beginning God made but one woman for one man, it follows that they cannot be separated but by the authority of God. Man may not put away his wife for every cause. What God has joined together man may not put asunder. In this decision he really decided in favor of one of the parties; and it shows that when it was proper, Jesus answered questions without regard to consequences, from whatever cause they might have been proposed, and however much difficulty it might involve him in. Our Lord, in this, also showed consummate wisdom. He answered the question, not from Hillel or Shammai, their teachers, but from Moses, and thus defeated their malice.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Matthew 19:5. For this cause — Being created for this very purpose; that they might glorify their Maker in a matrimonial connection. A man shall leave (καÏαλειÏαι, wholly give up) both father and mother - the matrimonial union being more intimate and binding than even paternal or filial affection;-and shall be closely united, ÏÏοÏκολληθηÏεÏαι, shall be firmly cemented to his wife. A beautiful metaphor, which most forcibly intimates that nothing but death can separate them: as a well-glued board will break sooner in the whole wood, than in the glued joint. So also the Hebrew word ××ק debak implies.
And they twain shall be one flesh? — Not only meaning, that they should be considered as one body, but also as two souls in one body, with a complete union of interests, and an indissoluble partnership of life and fortune, comfort and support, desires and inclinations, joys and sorrows. Farther, it appears to me, that the words in Genesis 2:24, ××סר ××× lebasar achad, for one flesh, which our Lord literally translates, mean also, that children, compounded as it were of both, should be the product of the matrimonial connection. Thus, they two (man and woman) shall be for the producing of one flesh, the very same kind of human creature with themselves. See the note on Genesis 2:24.
