They say unto him
That is the Pharisees, who object the law of Moses to him, hoping
hereby to ensnare him, and expose him to the resentment of the
people, should he reject that, as they supposed he would;
why did Moses then command to give a writing of
divorcement, and
put her away?
referring to ( Deuteronomy
24:1 ) which they thought to be a contradiction, and what
they knew not how to reconcile to the doctrine Christ had
delivered, concerning the original institution of marriage, and
the close union there is between a man and his wife, by virtue of
it, and which is not to be dissolved by men. Concerning a writing
of divorcement and the form, and manner of it, (See Gill on
Matthew
5:31)