Section 327
129In CD 4.21-5.1 these words from Gen. 1:27 (described as yesôḏ habberî’āh, corresponding to ἀϱχὴ ϰτὶσεως of Mark 10:6) are combined with Gen. 7:9 to form an argument against plurality of wives.
130Cf. J. W. Wenham, Christ and the Bible (London, 1972), p. 28.
131D. S. Bailey, Sexual Relation in Christian Thought (New York, 1959), pp. 9-10. The introduction of the question in 1 Cor. 6:16 by ἢ οὐϰ οἲδατε; may imply that the Corinthian Christians had already received oral instruction on this matter.
132“And the Two,” p. 57, n. 2; he refers to M. R. Lehmann, “Gen 2,24 as the Basis for Divorce in Halakhah and New Testament,” ZAW 31 (1960), 263-67.
133As by J. P. Sampley, “And the Two,” pp. 86-96.