Deuteronomy 24:1 (WEB)
When a man takes a wife and marries her, then it shall be, if she finds no favor in his eyes because he has found some unseemly thing in her, that he shall write her a certificate of divorce, put it in her hand, and send her out of his house.
Catechism · 1
“Nevertheless, the law given to Moses aims at protecting the wife from arbitrary domination by the husband, even though according to the Lord's words it still carries traces of man's "hardness of heart" which was the reason Moses permitted men to divorce their wives.” — Catechism footnote: Cf. Mt 19:8; Deut 24:1.
Fathers and councils · 7
John Chrysostom
“There was an ancient law made,that he who hated his wife, for whatever kind of cause, should not be forbidden to cast her out, and to bring home another instead of her.” — editor's note: Deut. xxiv. 1–4.
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Jerome
“…that she is defiled; for that is abomination before the Lord: and thou shalt not cause the land to sin, which the Lord thy God giveth thee for an inheritance.”” — editor's note: Deut. xxiv. 1–4.
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Augustine of Hippo
“And something like this custom, on account of the hardness of the Israelites, Moses seems to have allowed, concerning a bill of divorcement.” — editor's note: Deut. xxiv. 1
Read the whole comment“But in this section of the Gospel nothing is to be more steadily kept in view, than that so great is the evil of fornication, that, while married people are bound to one another by so strong a bond, this one cause of divorce is excepted; but as to what fornication is, that we have already discussed.” — editor's note: The law permitted divorce for “some uncleanness” (Deut. xxiv. 1). In the time of Christ divorce was allowed on trivial grounds. While Schammai interpreted the…
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Catena Aurea on Matthew
- OrigenCatena Aurea on Matthew
“But to this it is to be answered, that if by the Law an adulteress is stoned, that sin is not to be understood as the shameful thing for which Moses suffers a writing of divorcement; [Deut 24:1] for in a cause of adultery it was not lawful to give a writing of divorcement.” — the author cites it
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Tertullian
“Moses, however, permitted repudiation in Deuteronomy: “When a man hath taken a wife, and hath lived with her, and it come to pass that she find no favour in his eyes, because he hath found unchastity in her; then let him write her a bill of divorcement and give it in her hand, and send her away out of his house.”” — editor's note: Deut. xxiv. 1.
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Catena Aurea on Luke
- Theophylact of OhridCatena Aurea on Luke
“For that to the imperfect the Law spoke imperfectly is plain from what he says to the hard hearts of the Jews, “If a man hate his wife, let him put her away,” (Deut. 24:1.) because since they were murderers and rejoiced in blood, they had no pity even upon those who were united to them, so that they slew their sons…” — the author cites it
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Cross-references · 15
Cited together in On the Good of Marriage Chapter 7.
Cited together in Origen on Matthew 19:9 (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Catechism §1610 and 1 other place.
Cited together in Origen on Matthew 19:9 (Catena Aurea) and 1 other place.
Cited together in On the Sermon on the Mount I.16.
Cited together in On the Sermon on the Mount I.16.
Cited together in On the Sermon on the Mount I.16.
Cited together in Theophylact of Ohrid on Luke 16:14–18 (3) (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Theophylact of Ohrid on Luke 16:14–18 (3) (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in On the Sermon on the Mount I.16.
Cited together in On the Sermon on the Mount I.16.
Cited together in On the Good of Marriage Chapter 7.
Cited together in On the Good of Marriage Chapter 7 and 1 other place.
Cited together in On the Sermon on the Mount I.16.
Cross-reference given by the World English Bible's translators.