When the disciples ask Jesus about this matter
he invokes the “thou shall not…” to what Moses allowed for so that the
hypocrisy of the Pharisee test might be exposed. The secondary law that is a
concession to the hardness of the human heart is easily coerced so that the
“from the beginning of creation” purpose of God is corrupted. That does not
mean the “from the beginning of creation” purpose of God is not in place when
the one flesh of marriage is separated only that like so many other things
about our present circumstance divorce is not what God intended. The second
half of this week’s lectionary might seem unrelated but like the perfect law
corrupted the human heart hardens the gift of the kingdom of God into something
we put in a doctrinal box of human rules and regulations. So a little child is the
image the Almighty chooses to take up so that the hardness of the human heart
might be softened in the same way that Jesus takes little children into his
arms and blesses them.
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