1883 Haydock Douay Rheims Bible
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| Matthew 19:4 | But he answering, said to them: Have ye not read, that he *who made man in the beginning, made them male and female? And he said: Genesis 1:27. | In the beginning. It is remarked by St. Jerome, St. Chrysostom, and Theophylactus, that the Almighty does not say of any of the animals which he created, as he does of man and woman, that he joined one male to one female; from which it appears, according to the reasoning of St. Augustine, that monogamy, as well as the indissolubility of marriage, was instituted from the beginning by the Almighty. (Tirinus) |