(the only place where Moses wrote about divorce), it was nevertheless a principle the Pharisees could have and should have gleaned from Malachi 2:16, where God says plainly that He hates divorce. We, in turn, ought to glean an important lesson about biblical interpretation from the Pharisees’ error: In order to understand the full meaning of Scripture, we must compare Scripture with Scripture, and allow the Bible to interpret itself. Notice that Jesus assumed that a divorced woman would normally
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