
Matthew 19:1-15
Catholic Bible Study
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Jesus' Teaching on Divorce and Remarriage
The Pharisees were actually the ones who thought there were lots of good reasons you could have divorces, right? It's sort of an interesting thing to go back and think about. Jesus wants the Pharisees to understand divorce and remarriage was only permitted because of Israel's sinfulness. Thomas Aquinas in his summa, Teologiae, explains that Moses had to permit divorce because as Thomas quoted Rabbi Maimonides said.
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