Mark 10:5

5 quibus respondens Iesus ait ad duritiam cordis vestri scripsit vobis praeceptum istud

Mark 10:5 Meaning and Commentary

Mark 10:5

And Jesus answered and said unto them
With respect to this command, or sufferance of Moses, which they urged:

for the hardness of your heart he wrote you this precept;
it was, not because it was right in its own nature, or according to the original will of God; but, because the Jews were such cruel, and hard hearted men, that if this had not been permitted, some of them, that had wives not so agreeable to them, would have used them in a very inhuman manner, if not murdered them; and therefore to prevent further, and greater mischief, Moses indulged them with such a precept; (See Gill on Matthew 19:8).

Mark 10:5 In-Context

3 at ille respondens dixit eis quid vobis praecepit Moses

4 qui dixerunt Moses permisit libellum repudii scribere et dimittere

5 quibus respondens Iesus ait ad duritiam cordis vestri scripsit vobis praeceptum istud

6 ab initio autem creaturae masculum et feminam fecit eos Deus

7 propter hoc relinquet homo patrem suum et matrem et adherebit ad uxorem suam