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They asked him, “Why then did Moses command us to give her a certificate of divorce and divorce her?”
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Verse 7. The Pharisees, not satisfied, again attack our Saviour. To this second attack he replies: Moses indeed permitted you to put away your wives on account of the hardness of your hearts, and to prevent a greater evil, lest through your cruelty you should poison them, or put them to violent death; but in the natural law, signified by the beginning, it was not so. Dion. Carth.
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