And it is easier for heaven and earth to pass, than one tittle of the law to fail.
Christ's doctrine is not meant to amuse us with mysteries or entertain us with mercies, but to quicken us to Christian duty, chiefly the duty of doing good to those in need. We are stewards of God's manifold grace; having been unfaithful, we must use what we have in works of piety and charity to meet it again with comfort beyond the grave.
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Commenting on Luke 16:1-18
Whosoever putteth away his wife,.... For any other cause than for adultery, as the Jews used to do upon every trifling occasion, and for every little disgust: by which instance our Lord shows, how the Jews abused and depraved the law, and as much as in them lay, caused it to fail; and how he, on the other hand, was so far from destroying and...
For heaven and earth to pass - See on Mat 5:17, Mat 5:18 (note).