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Jerome — as excerpted in the Catena Aurea on Matthew 5:31-32

Patristic A.D. 420

Jerome · c. A.D. 347–420

“For touching Moses’s allowance of divorce, the Lord and Saviour more fully explains in conclusion, that it was because of the hardness of the hearts of the husbands, not so much sanctioning discord, as checking bloodshed.”

Catena Aurea: Gospel of Matthew, as excerpted in the Catena Aurea on Matthew 5:31-32 PD · J. H. Newman (Oxford, 1841) ↗

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