Genesis 2:24

24. Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh Some interpreters (Delitzsch, Lange) regard these as the words of Adam, spoken as by a prophetic impulse from God; while others (Keil, Gerlach, Turner) regard them as the words of the inspired historian . The latter is the more probable view . In Matthew 19:3-6, Jesus showed from this passage that the marriage tie is most holy and inviolable . Says Otto von Gerlach: “There will be times and circumstances when a man is permitted, nay, is commanded, to leave his father and his mother, but his wife he is never permitted to leave they both shall be one . This is not said of the woman, because she already, by her marriage, has left father and mother, and become subject to her husband. Here it is not spoken of leaving father and mother for the sake of marrying, but of a leaving after marriage.”