Pentateuch, the Septuagint, and the Syriac1 version of Genesis.
6. OM zri fiffij they are no more) They are now no longer two, as they were before. — <5uo, two} We should not understand gdpxts, fleshes (carnes) : for in ver. 5 we find o't duo (the two, they twain).
— o, that which (quod), not a, those which (quae) : for they are now one flesh. — avvifazev, hath joined together) hath made one. — avdpuvos, man) see ver. 3.— ^ x.r.X., let not, etc.) The principle here involved admits of a widely extended application : what GOD hath separated, commanded, conceded, prohibited, blessed, praised, loosed, bound, etc., let not Man join together, prohibit, forbid, command, curse, blame, bind, loose, etc., not even in his own case ; see Acts x. 15 ; Num. xxiii. 8 ; Rom. xiv. 3, 20. — Xupi^ru, put asunder) In every case of sexual connection, either God hath joined the two, or He hath not joined them : if He hath not joined them, their connection is unlawful ; if He hath joined them, why are they separated ?
7. AoDva/, to give) St Mark (x. 4) has y^a-vj/a;, to write. Moses employs both expressions. — fiifixiov aTo<rra<r/oy, a writing of divorcement) the LXX. use the same phrase. — x.ai, and) sc: thus.
8. TLpbg, for, because of2) — ewsrpf^tv, permitted) not fv*rt/Xar«,
afterwards fell into oblivion for more than a thousand years, so that its very existence began to be questioned. Joseph Scaliger was the first who drew the attention of learned men to this valuable relic of antiquity ; and M. Peiresc procured a copy from Egypt, which, together with the ship that brought it, was unfortunately captured by pirates. Archbishop Usher, how ever, procured six copies from the East ; and Father Morinus printed the Samaritan Pentateuch, for the first time, in the Paris Polyglott (which was published in 1645, in ten volumes, large folio), from another copy, procured by the French Ambassador at Constantinople. For further particulars, see Hart well Home in voc. — (I. B.)
1 Considerable doubt exists as to the origin and date of the PESCHITO SYRIAC (or literal Syrian) VEHSION of the Old Testament. It was printed for the first time in the Paris Polyglott. For an account of the various opinions entertained regarding the date and authorship of this celebrated Version (ranging over a period of more than a thousand years), and of the arguments by which thev are supported, see Hurtivell Home in voc. -(I. B.)
2 TJJV wKHufBHtflutfi the hardness of heart) So great is the perversity of the human mind, that there are not a few things by which it ought to be put