gain.
10:2. And the Pharisees coming to him asked him, tempting him: Is it
lawful for a man to put away his wife?
10:3. But he answering, saith to them: What did Moses command you?
10:4. Who said: Moses permitted to write a bill of divorce and to put
her away.
10:5. To whom Jesus answering, said: Because of the hardness of your
heart, he wrote you that precept.
10:6. But from the beginning of the creation, God made them male and
female.
10:7. For this cause, a man shall leave his father and mother and shall
cleave to his wife.
10:8. And they two shall be in one flesh. Therefore now they are not
two, but one flesh.
10:9. What therefore God hath joined together, let no man put asunder.
10:10. And in the house again his disciples asked him concerning the
same thing.
10:11. And he saith to them: Whosoever shall put away his wife and marry
another committeth adultery against her.
10:12. And if the wife shall put away her husband and be married to
another, she committeth adultery.
10:13. And they brought to him young children, that he might touch them.
And the disciples rebuked them that brought them.
10:14. Whom when Jesus saw, he was much displeased and saith to them:
Suffer the little children to come unto me and forbid them not: for of
such is the kingdom of God.
10:15. Amen I say to you, whosoever shall not receive the kingdom of God
as a little child shall not enter into it.
10:16. And embracing them and laying his hands upon them, he blessed
them.
10:17. And when he was gone forth into the way, a certain man, running
up and kneeling before him, asked him: Good Master, what shall I do that
I may receive life everlasting?
10:18. And Jesus said to him: Why callest thou me good? None is good but
one, that is God.
None is good... Of himself entirely and essentially, but God alone; men
may be good also, but only by participation of God's goodness.
10:19. Thou knowest the commandments: Do not commit adultery, do not
kill, do not steal, bear not false witness, do no fraud, honour thy
father and mother.
10:20. But he answering, said to him: Master, all these things I have
observed from my youth.
10:21. And Jesus, looking on him, loved him and said to him: One thing
is wanting unto thee. Go, sell whatsoever thou hast and give to the
poor: and thou shalt have treasure in heaven. And come, follow me.
10:22. Who being struck sad at that saying, went away sorrowful: for he
had gre
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