Jesus’ Teaching about Divorce - learning in Latin and Greek

Well it’s been a couple of weeks of learning Latin. I spent about 30 minutes to an hour a day, Monday to Friday, watching Visual Latin - learning mostly grammar and some vocabulary in Latin. Today I will try to use what I learned so far an important lesson from Jesus - in Latin! The passage in Matthew 19 concerning divorce also has a lot to say about the meaning of marriage itself. So here it goes...

Jesus was asked in Matthew 19:3 "Some Pharisees came to him, and to test him they asked, “Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife for any cause?”". 

Notice that they asked the question to “test him”. To answer this, Jesus first brought them back to what was foundational in understanding God’s intention for creating human - "in His own image" and "male and female" (Genesis 1:27). He then explained the biblical meaning of marriage (Matthew 19:5):

"For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh?" ; 
which is translated into Latin: "Propter hoc (For this) dimittet (let go) homo patrem (a father), et matrem (and mother), et adhaerebit (cleaves) uxori suae (his wife), et erunt duo (the two) in carne una (one flesh)."


The translation is pretty straight forward except for the word "cleaves" which is "adhaerebit" in Latin; which according to the Latin Dictionary from Notre Dame can mean "adhere, stick, cling/cleave to; hang on; be attached/concerned/involved;". In the original Greek the word is 
"kollaō (κολλάω)" which is translated in the Strong's Bible Dictionary as "to glue, glue to, glue together, cement, fasten together; hence universally, to join or fasten firmly together; in the N. T. only the passive is found, with reflexive force, to join oneself to, cleave to;"

I think I am getting the picture! That's why Jesus further said in verse 6: "Since they are no longer two but one, let no one split apart what God has joined together.".

Marriage is meant to be permanent. That's why the Catholic Church makes it into a sacrament between two baptized Catholics. A sacrament is the "Outward signs of inward grace, instituted by Christ for our sanctification". For a marriage to succeed, we need Jesus' instilling grace into the lives of the married couple. Catholic.com has this to say about the Sacrament of Marriage.

I am thankful for my wife who lead me back to the Catholic Church!