(He may divorce her) even if he finds another woman more beautiful than she is, as it says, ‘If she finds no favor in his eyes’ ” (m. Giṭ. 9:10; cf. gemara on this passage in b. Giṭ. 90a–b). 5 πρὸς τὴν σκληροκαρδίαν ὑμῶν ἔγραψεν ὑμῖν τὴν ἐντολὴν ταύτην, “On account of your hardness of heart he wrote this commandment for you.” Jesus sidesteps these options and instead challenges the hermeneutical assumption that because something is “permitted” it is therefore according to the will
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