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{{:Quote|Jesus' teaching starts ... from the "one flesh" of Gen. 2:24, so that it is only because "sexual unfaithfulness" has already violated the unity of the one flesh that the marriage must be regarded as no longer intact. Shammai was concerned with a man's right to initiate divorce, Jesus with the formal recognition that the marriage has already been broken by the wife's action.<ref>R. T. France, ''The Gospel of Matthew'', Eerdmans Publishing Company, 2007, p. 721</ref>}}
Translation{{:Quote|Jesus' teaching starts ... from the "one flesh" of Gen. 2:24, so that it is only because "sexual unfaithfulness" has already violated the unity of the one flesh that the marriage must be regarded as no longer intact. Shammai was concerned with a man's right to initiate divorce, Jesus with the formal recognition that the marriage has already been broken by the wife's action.<ref>R. T. France, ''The Gospel of Matthew'', Eerdmans Publishing Company, 2007, p. 721</ref>}}

Jesus' teaching starts ... from the "one flesh" of Gen. 2:24, so that it is only because "sexual unfaithfulness" has already violated the unity of the one flesh that the marriage must be regarded as no longer intact. Shammai was concerned with a man's right to initiate divorce, Jesus with the formal recognition that the marriage has already been broken by the wife's action.[1]

  1. R. T. France, The Gospel of Matthew, Eerdmans Publishing Company, 2007, p. 721