Mark 10:6 (WEB)
But from the beginning of the creation, God made them male and female.
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Augustine of Hippo
Chapter VII.—Of the Fact that from This Point on to the Lord’s Supper, with Which Act the Discussion of All the Narratives of the Four Evangelists Conjointly Commenced, No Question Calling for Special Examination is…
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Catena Aurea on Mark
- BedeCatena Aurea on Mark
Up to this time, Mark hath related what Our Lord said and did in Galilee; here he begins to relate what He did, taught, or suffered in Judaea, and first indeed across the Jordan on the east; and this is what is said…
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But He enters the region of Judaea, which the envy of the Jews had often caused Him to leave, because His Passion was to take place there. He did not, however, then go up to Jerusalem, but to the confines of Judaea,…
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Mark the difference of temper in the multitude and in the Pharisees. The former meet together, in order to be taught, and that their sick may be healed, as Matthew relates [Matt 19:2]; the latter come to Him, to try…
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They come to Him indeed, and do not quit Him, lest the multitudes should believe on Him; and by continually coming to Him, they thought to bring Him into difficulty, and to confuse Him by their questions. For they…
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It makes nothing, however, to the truth of the fact, whether, as Matthew says, they themselves addressed to the Lord the question concerning the bill of divorcement, allowed to them by Moses, on our Lord’s forbidding…
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Moses, however, was against a man’s dismissing his wife, for he interposed this delay, that a person whose mind was bent on separation, might be deterred by the writing of the bill, and desist; particularly, since,…
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Or else, it is said, “For the hardness of your hearts,” because it is possible for a soul purged from desires and from anger to bear the worst of women; but if those passions have a redoubled force over the mind,…
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Thus then, He saves Moses, who had given the law, from their accusation, and turns the whole upon their head. But since what He had said was grievous to them, He at once brings back the discourse to the old law,…
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He says not male and females, which the sense would have required had it referred to the divorce of former wives, but “male” and “female”, so that they might be bound by the tie of one wife.
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If however he had wished one wife to be put away and another to be brought in, He would have created several women. Nor did God only join one woman to one man, but He also bade a man quit his parents and cleave to…
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And in like manner, because He says, he shall cleave to his wife, not wives. It goes on: “And they twain shall be one flesh.”
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Being framed out of one root, they will join into one body. It goes on: “So then they are no more twain, but one flesh.”
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The reward then of marriage is of two to become one flesh. Virginity being joined to the Spirit, becomes of one spirit.
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After this, bringing forward an awful argument, He said not, do not divide, but He concluded, “What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.”
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Behold the Jews are convinced out of the books of Moses, that a wife is not to be put away, while they fancied that in putting her away, they were doing the will of Moses. In like manner from this place, from the…
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What therefore God hath conjoined by making one flesh of a man and a woman, that man cannot separate, but God alone. Man separates, when we dismiss the first wife because we desire a second; but it is God who…
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But if two persons, whom God has joined together, are not to be separated; much more is it wrong to separate from Christ, the Church, which God has joined to Him.
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But the disciples were offended, as not being fully satisfied with what had been said; for this reason they again question Him. Wherefore there follows: “And in the house, His disciples asked Him again of the same…
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This second question is said to be asked “again” by the Apostles, because it is on the subject of which the Pharisees had asked Him, that is, concerning the state of marriage; and this is said by Mark in his own person.
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For a repetition of a saying of the Word, produces not weariness, but thirst and hunger. Wherefore it is said, “They that eat me shall yet be hungry, and they that drink me shall yet be thirsty”; for the tasting of…
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The Lord calls by the name of adultery cohabitation with her who is not a man’s wife; she is not, however, a wife, whom a man has taken to him, after quitting the first; and for this reason he commits adultery upon…
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In Matthew it is more fully expressed, “Whosoever shall put away his wife, except it be for fornication.” [Matt 19:9] The only carnal cause then is fornication; the only spiritual cause is the fear of God, that a man…
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There is no contrariety in Matthew’s relating that He spoke these words to the Pharisees, though Mark says that they were spoken to the disciples; for it is possible that He may have spoken them to both.
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Cross-references · 6
Cross-reference given by the World English Bible's translators.
Cited together in Bede on Mark 10:1–12 (6) (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Bede on Mark 10:1–12 (6) (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Bede on Mark 10:1–12 (2) (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Augustine of Hippo on Mark 10:1–12 (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Bede on Mark 10:1–12 (7) (Catena Aurea).