Original Douay–Rheims AnnotationsMark 10

Permitted.

^[1] Some things are permitted, though not approved or allowed, to avoid greater inconveniences. No man may do evil for any cause, but he may permit other men's evils for diverse causes: as God himself doth, who can do no evil. So doth the Prince and Commonwealth permit lesser evils to eschew greater, and so may the Holy Church much more (as S. Augustine ^[2] saith she doth) being placed among much chaff and much cockle, tolerate many things: and yet whatsoever is against faith and good life, she neither approveth, nor dissembleth with silence, nor committeth.

• 1 Toleration and permission of evil.
• 2 Aug. ep. 119 c. 19.

And marrieth another.

That which S. Matthew uttered more obscurely, and is mistaken of some, as though he meant that for fornication a man might put away his wife and marry another, is here by this Evangelist (as also by S. Luke ^[1] ) put out of doubt, ^[2] generally avouching, that whosoever putteth away his wife and marrieth another, committeth adultery, Aug. li. 1. de adult. coniug. c. 11. & sequentibus.

• 1 Lu. 16, 18.
• 2 Marriage after divorce unlawful.

None is good.

None is entirely, substantially, and of himself good, but God: though by participation of God's goodness, men are truly also called good.

A rich man.

He is here called a rich man that hath his confidence (as here is expressed) in his treasure, and had rather forsake his faith and duty to God, than lose them, as all they which live in Schism or Heresy to save their goods.

An hundred times so much.

^[1] Sometime God doth so bless men also in worldly benefits that have forsaken all for him, as S. Gregory, S. Augustine, and S. Paulinus do note: but the principal meaning is, ^[2] that he will give to such men in this life aboundance of grace and spiritual comfort and contention and joy of conscience (as they feel which have experience) the which spiritual gifts exceed the temporal commodities more than an hundred fold. In so much that he that hath fully forsaken but small things for religion, would not forsake religion to have all the world.

• 1 Their reward in this life that forsake ought for God's sake.
• 2 Hiero. in 19. Mat.