John Trapp on Matthew 19:5

Verse 5. And said, For this cause &c.] Dixit, [illegible: 1 word], [illegible: 1 word], [illegible: 1 word] three things are said by Moses to have been done by God in the institution, and for the honour of marriage: to the which still (saith a Divine,) God beareth so great respect, as that [illegible: 1 word] on 1 [illegible: 1 word] 3. 2. pag. 44. he is pleased to bear with, cover, and not impute the many frailties, follies, vanities, weaknesses and wickednesses, that are found betwixt man and wife. For this cause shall a man leave father] viz, In regard of cohabitation, not of sustentation: Relinquet cubile patris & matris, as the Chaldee rightly interprets it, Gen. 2. 24. And this was the first Prophecy that was ever uttered in the world (saith [illegible: 1 word] and Beda,) venerable therefore for its antiquity: like as is Alsted Chron. [illegible: 1 word]. 468. also that first Hexameter, made by Phemonoe, in the year of the world, 2580; [non-Latin text not transcribed]. And shall cleave to his wife] Gr. Be glued to her. A table will [non-Latin text not transcribed]. often cleave in the whole wood, before it will part asunder, where it is glued. A husband ought to be as firm to his wife as to himself. See my Notes on Gen. 2. 24. And they twain shall be one flesh] This is point-blank against polygamy, which yet Anabaptists would bring in again, and Turks allow of. They learned it of Lamech, qui primus unam costam in duas divisit, saith Hierom, but had soon enough of it. So had Jacob, Elkanah, and other holy men of old, who lived and died in this sin of polygamy, and meerly through mistake, as it is thought, of that text, Lev. 18. 16. Thou shalt not take a wife to her sister, to vex her: i. e. Thou shalt not superinduce one wife to another. Now the Fathers took the word (sister) for one so by blood, [illegible: 1 word] was spoken of a sister by Nation, as those clauses (to vex her) and (during her life) doe evince.