What is intended by "do not make a mockery of God's verses"?

Imām Ibn al-Jawzī (d. 597/1201) summarized the scholars' opinions in his book "Zād al-Masīr" as follows:

1. It refers to a man who says that he is divorcing or taking back his wife, or that he is freeing his slave, and then claims he was only joking. [ʿUmar, Abū al-Dardāʾ,al-Ḥasan]
2. It refers to someone who seeks to harm his wife by prolonging her waiting period through repeated divorce and reconciliation. [Masrūq, Muqātil]