enjoined, except in that sense in which St Mark (x. 3) employs the word. — an ap^c, in the beginning) The origin of wedlock was recorded also by the same Moses, from whom our Lord de monstrates the matter.
9. M?5, not1) The word occurs with the same force in 1 John v. 16. — xal yaprisfy and shall marry) The criminality of the divorce is especially aggravated by a second marriage.
10. Tou avtipuffov — /u,ira rqs yvmixbg, of the man — with the woman) The nouns are used generically.
11. 'o o; sTviv avroTc, X.T-.X., But He said unto them, etc.) To that universal, but less well-founded reason for not contracting ma trimony, grounded on the inconvenience which the disciples inferred must arise from its indissolubility, our Lord opposes the legitimate, particular, and only good reason, viz. the being an eunuch, — i.e. the being exempted by any exceptional cause from the universal law of contracting matrimony. — ou -ramc, not all) Our Lord opposes these words to the universal proposition of His disciples (sc. ou eu/^tpepn ya^aai, i.e. it is not expedient to marry), and they are equivalent to " none." — Cf. Rom. iii. 9, ou v-avrug, not at all [English version, " No, in no wise."] The important exception is added. — aXX' oTg d'sdorai, save those to whom it is given. — rowov, this) This pronoun refers also to what follows. Cf. the Epiphonema? in ver. 12, sc. 6
to the blush, as the Jews ought to have been in the case of the writing of divorcement, but which it abuses to a preposterous clearing (justification) of itself.— V. g.
1 Lachm. reads TrctptKTo; hoyov vopvtiots with BD Orig. 3,647c, 648ac, 6495; " excepta causa fornicationis" in c. CZ read py e-s-l Trooyii'a, and so Tischend. Rec. Text reads the same, prefixing el. Vulg. "nisi ob fornica- tionem," which favours Rec. Text. " Nisi ob causam fornicationis" in ab seems a blending of the two readings, el py and hoyov. — ED.
Bengel reads 05 a.v dTrohvay T^V yvvotiKat ctinov, //.YI ITTI iropyitx, whosoever shall put away his wife NOT for fornication ; E. M. has «/ py tvl iropvfice, IF NOT (i e. except) for fornication. The meaning is the same. In his Ap paratus Bengel writes, in loc —
" ^)j) Comp. et al. edd. Aug. 1, 4, Bas. 1, Byz. Cypr. Gehl. Med. Mosc. Kteph. omn. Wo. 2, et sedecim et viginti alii : nee obstat Cant. C'olb. 8, L. Par. 6, Arab. Syr. ii py. Er et al. edd. cum pauculis MSS." _(I. B.)
2 EPIPHONEMA is an exclamation subjoined to the narration, or demon stration of an important subject. See Gnomon on Rom. i. 15 in voc wru.