Matthew Poole and continuators on Genesis 2:24

24. Therefore shall a man leave his Father and his Mother and shall cleave unto his Wife : And they shall be one Flesh .

These are the words of Moses by divine instinct, or his inference from Adam's words.

In regard of Habitation and society, but not as to natural duty and affection.

In Coni[illegible: 1+ letters]gal relation and highest affection, even above what they owe to their Parents.

Or, they two, as it is in the Samaritan, Syriack, and Arabick translations and Matthew 19. 5.

(i. e.) Shall be esteemed by themselves and others to be as intirely, and inseparably united and shall have as intimate and universal communion, as if they were.

(i. e.) One Person, one Soul, one Body. And this first institution shews the sinfulness of Divorces, and Polygamy, however God might upon a particular reason for a time dispence with his own institution, or to remit the punishment due to the violaters of it.

Marginal references: Matth. 19. 5. Mar. 10. 7. 1 Cor. 6. 16. Eph. 5. 31.