6. All these ways our Lord
Jesus Christ and His Apostles used. For when it had been objected
that His disciples had plucked the ears of corn on the sabbath-day,
the instance was taken from history; “Have ye not read,” saith
He, “what David did when he was an hungered, and they that were
with him; how he entered into the house of God, and did eat the
shewbread, which was not lawful for him to eat, neither for them
that were with him, but only for the priests?”1701
But the instance pertains to
ætiology, that, when
Christ had forbidden a
wife to be put away,
save for the cause of
fornication, and they, who asked Him, had
alleged that
Moses had granted permission after a writing of
divorcement had been given, This, saith He, “
Moses did because of
the hardness of your heart.”
1702
For here a reason was given, why
that had been well allowed by Moses for a time; that this command
of Christ might seem to show that now the times were other. But it
were long to explain the changes of these times, and their order
arranged and settled by a certain marvellous appointment of Divine
Providence.
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