-
Verse Matthew 18:22. _SEVENTY TIMES SEVEN._] There is something very
remarkable in these words, especially if collated with Genesis 4:24,
where the very same words are used-"If any man kill LAMECH, h...
-
TILL SEVEN TIMES? - The Jews caught that a man was to forgive another
three times, but not the fourth. Peter more than doubled this, and
asked whether forgiveness was to be exercised to so great an ex...
-
6. INSTRUCTIONS TO HIS DISCIPLES. CONCERNING FORGIVENESS.
CHAPTER 18
1. Concerning the Little Ones and Offences. (Matthew 18:1 .) 2. The
Son of Man to Save What is Lost. (Matthew 18:11 .) 3. The Chu...
-
THE DUTY OF FORGIVENESS ILLUSTRATED BY THE PARABLE OF THE UNGRATEFUL
SERVANT. With Matthew 18:21 _ cf._ Luke 17:4, which makes repentance a
condition. The Rabbis taught (_Yoma,_ 86_ b)_ that one must...
-
PERSONAL RELATIONSHIPS (Matthew 18:1-35)
Matthew 18:1-35 is a most important chapter for Christian Ethics,
because it deals with those qualities which should characterize the
personal relationships o...
-
Then Peter came and said to him, "Lord, how often will my brother sin
against me, and I forgive him? Up to seven times?" Jesus said to him,
"I tell you not up to seven times, but up to seventy times s...
-
SEVENTY TIMES. Greek. _hebdomekontakis._ Occurs only here....
-
Forgiveness of Sins. Luke 17:3-4
God's forgiveness of sinners suggests the duty of forgiveness among
men....
-
_Until seventy times seven_ i. e. an infinite number of times. There
is no limit to forgiveness....
-
FORGIVENESS OF SINS
Luke 17:3-4
God’s forgiveness of sinners suggests the duty of forgiveness among
men....
-
ἝΩΣ ἙΒΔΟΜΗΚΟΝΤΆΚΙΣ ἙΠΤΆ, i.e. an infinite
number of times. There is no limit to forgiveness....
-
VER 21. THEN CAME PETER TO HIM, AND SAID, "LORD, HOW OFT SHALL MY
BROTHER SIN AGAINST ME, AND I FORGIVE HIM? TILL SEVEN TIMES?" 22.
JESUS SAITH UNTO HIM, "I SAY NOT UNTO THEE, UNTIL SEVEN TIMES: BUT,...
-
_THE HEART OF A CHRISTIAN IS CHARACTERIZED BY FORGIVENESS MATTHEW
18:21-35:_ Jesus taught us just to keep on forgiving (seventy times
seven). (Matthew 18:22) Are we like the man that owed several mill...
-
ΟΎ (G3756) не. Относится не к гл., а к
ΈΠΤΑΚΊΣ (EGT).
ΈΒΔΟΜΗΚΟΝΤΆΚΙΣ ΈΠΤ семь раз по
семьдесят, то есть неограниченное
число раз (DA)....
-
THEN CAME PETER—AND SAID, LORD, HOW OFT, &C.— _If my brother
repeatedly trespass against me; how often must I forgive him?_
Campbell. When our Saviour had given his advice for the accommodation
of dif...
-
B. JESUS ANSWERS: NO LIMIT: MERCIFULNESS IS THE RULE IN GOD'S KINGDOM!
(18:22-35)
Matthew 18:22 JESUS SAITH UNTO HIM, I SAY NOT UNTO THEE, UNTIL SEVEN
TIMES; BUT, UNTIL SEVENTY TIMES SEVEN. On another...
-
Section 46
JESUS TRAINS THE TWELVE IN PERSONAL RELATIONS
(Parallels: Mark 9:33-50; Luke 9:46-50)
TEXT: 18:1-35
A. Humility and True Greatness
1 In that hour came the disciples unto Jesus, saying, Wh...
-
16 See Deu_19:15; Joh_8:17; 2Co_3:1.
18 See Mat_16:19.
19 The Lord continues in the same vein. If we should attempt to apply
these privileges and promises now it would only bring reproach on His
name...
-
OFFENDING THE LITTLE ONES. THE UNMERCIFUL SERVANT
1-14. Ambition reproved, and humility taught by the example of a
little child (Mark 9:33; Luke 9:46)....
-
MATTHEW’S GOOD NEWS
MATTHEW’S *GOSPEL
_HILDA BRIGHT_
CHAPTER 18
Chapter 18 is the fourth section of what Jesus taught. It ends in the
same way as the other sections ‘Now when Jesus had finished...
-
SEVENTY TIMES SEVEN. — The use of the symbolic numbers that
indicated completeness was obviously designed to lead the mind of the
questioner altogether away from any specially numerical standard as
su...
-
_Peter's question about forgiving_. The second of two interpellations
in the course of Christ's discourse (_vide_ Mark 9:38-41; Luke
9:49-50). Such words touch sensitive consciences, and the
interrupt...
-
οὐ : emphatic “no” to be connected with ἕως
ἑπτάκις. Its force may be brought out by translating: no, I
tell you, not till, etc. ἀλλὰ ἑ. ἑ. ἑ.: Christ's reply
lifts the subject out of the legal sphere...
-
FORGIVEN YET UNFORGIVING
Matthew 18:21-35
_Seventy times seven_ is illimitable forgiveness. These numbers denote
the perfection of perfection; and if God asks so much of _us,_ what is
_He_ not prepa...
-
What a sad state of heart prompted this question! How absolutely
opposed to the whole genius of the Master's teaching and example! He
replied by an act, and a statement growing out of that act. The ch...
-
Till seventy times seven; i.e. 490 times; but it is put by way of an
unlimited number, to signify we must pardon private injuries, though
even so often done to us. (Witham) --- When our brother sins a...
-
FORGIVING ONE ANOTHER
Matthew 18:21-35. _“Then Peter, coming to Him, said, Lord, how
frequently shall my brother sin against me, and I forgive him? until
seven times? Jesus says to him, I do not say u...
-
"Then came Peter to him, and said, Lord, how oft shall my brother sin
against me, and I forgive him? till seven times? (22) Jesus saith unto
him, I say not unto thee, Until seven times: but, Until sev...
-
Chapter 8, which opens the portion that comes before us tonight, is a
striking illustration as well as proof of the method which God has
been pleased to employ in giving us the apostle Matthew's accou...
-
_THE SPIRIT OF FORGIVENESS_
‘Then came Peter to Him, and said, Lord, how oft shall my brother
sin against me, and I forgive Him? till seven times? Jesus saith unto
him, I say not unto thee, Until sev...
-
In chapter 18 the great principles proper to the new order of things
are made known to the disciples. Let us search a little into these
sweet and precious instructions of the Lord.
They may be looked...
-
JESUS SAITH UNTO HIM, I SAY NOT UNTO THEE,.... Which is as if he had
said, observe what I am about to say, I do not agree to what thou
sayest to fix the number, "until seven times only", but
UNTIL SE...
-
Jesus saith unto him, I say not unto thee, Until seven times: but,
Until seventy times seven.
Ver. 22. _Until seventy times seven_] _i.e._ _Infinities, toties
quoties._ God multiplieth pardons, Isaia...
-
_Then came Peter_ When Jesus had given this advice for the
accommodation of differences among his disciples, Peter, imagining it
might be abused by ill-disposed persons, as an encouragement to offer
i...
-
SEVENTY TIMES SEVEN; we are not to limit our forgiveness to any
definite number of offences, but to forgive as often as we are
injured....
-
True forgiveness:...
-
JESUS SAITH UNTO HIM, I SAY NOT UNTO THEE, UNTIL SEVEN TIMES; BUT,
UNTIL SEVENTY TIMES SEVEN.
The entire discourse had really concerned the question of dealing with
an erring brother. The need of savi...
-
Though the Lord Jesus has been seen to forego His own rights, He who
is by right infinitely great, the disciples show the opposite attitude
in desiring some rights above those of others in the kingdom...
-
21-35 Though we live wholly on mercy and forgiveness, we are backward
to forgive the offences of our brethren. This parable shows how much
provocation God has from his family on earth, and how untowa...
-
Ver. 21,22. Luke hath something like this LUKE 17:4, but it seemeth to
have been spoken at another time, and upon some other occasion; yet
the sense is much the same, and there are who think that Pete...
-
Shepherd of Hermas Vision Second
then shall they be forgiven all the sins which in former times they
committed, and forgiveness will be granted to all the saints who have
sinned even to the present d...
-
Matthew 18:22 Jesus G2424 said G3004 (G5719) him G846 not G3756 say
G3004 (G5719) you G4671 up...
-
‘Jesus says to him, “I do not say to you, “Until seven times”,
but, “Until seventy times seven”.
So Jesus is basically saying, “No Peter, there is no limit. Think in
terms of seventy times seven.” Jes...
-
BUT HOW OFTEN SHOULD WE FORGIVE? (18:21-22).
The idea that disciples should approach those who have sinned against
them and seek to be reconciled with them raised in Peter's mind the
question of how o...
-
Matthew 18:1-14 forbade offences _against_ the humble. This section
teaches how the humble should deal with offences: (1.) as regards the
Christian assembly (Matthew 18:15-20); (2.) as regards his own...
-
Matthew 18:22. UNTIL SEVENTY TIMES SEVEN. It is doubtful whether the
original means 490 or 77. But in either case it is a symbolical
expression for never-ending forgiveness. Love is not to be limited...
-
UNTIL SEVENTY TIMES SEVEN
(εως εβδομηκοντακις επτα). It is not clear
whether this idiom means seventy-seven or as the Revised Version has
it (490 times). If επτακις were written it would clearly be...
-
Matthew 18:21
You will not find a single saying of Christ which has any approach to
a maxim of morality, or which draws near to a limited opinion on the
subjects which belong to religious life, or tho...
-
Matthew 18:1. _At the same time came the disciples unto Jesus, saying,
Who is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven?_
The question we have sometimes heard asked in other forms, «Which is
the highest...
-
CONTENTS: Sermon on the child text. Discipline in the church. Unity in
prayer. Law of forgiveness.
CHARACTERS: God, Jesus, Peter.
CONCLUSION: Those are truly great who are truly humble and good, and...
-
Matthew 18:1. _Who is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven?_ The
comparative μειζων _greater,_ is put here for the superlative.
By the kingdom of heaven, they meant the worldly glory of the church
in...
-
SEVENTY TIMES SEVEN. This is a Jewish saying, which means _an
unlimited number._ Jesus said later: _"If he sins against you seven
times in one day, and each time he comes to you saying, I repent,' you...
-
_Lord, how oft shall my brother sin against me, and I forgive him?_
THE FORGIVENESS OF INJURIES
I. The best exemplification of the spirit of forgiveness is our
Lord’s own life. There were two kinds o...
-
MATTHEW—NOTE ON MATTHEW 18:21 HOW OFTEN WILL... I FORGIVE HIM? In
Judaism, forgiving three times showed a generous spirit. PETER
believes he has been particularly kind (seven times
-
MATTHEW—NOTE ON MATTHEW 18:1 The Community of the Messiah Revealed.
This is the fourth of Jesus’ five major teachings in Matthew’s
Gospel (see Introduction: Key Themes). Jesus instructs his disciples...
-
_CRITICAL NOTES_
Matthew 18:22. UNTIL SEVENTY TIMES SEVEN.—That is, as often as there
is a cause—a certain number is put for an uncertain (_John Wesley_).
Matthew 18:24. TEN THOUSAND TALENTS.—The tal...
-
EXPOSITION
MATTHEW 18:1
_Discourse concerning the greatest in the kingdom of heaven, and the
mutual duties of Christians_._ _(Mark 9:33; Luke 9:46-42.)...
-
Now at the same time there came disciples to Jesus, saying, Who is the
greatest in the kingdom of heaven? (Matthew 18:1)
Oh, boy how they longed for this. You're talking about motivation, and
the disc...
-
1 Timothy 2:8; Colossians 3:13; Ephesians 4:26; Ephesians 4:31;...
-
Seventy times seven [ε β δ ο μ η κ ο ν τ α κ ι ς ε π
τ α]. 5 It was a settled rule of Rabbinism that forgiveness should
not be extended more than three times. Even so, the practice was
terribly differ...
-
GOD'S FORGIVENESS FOR SINS
Matthew 6:14; _Matthew 18:21_
INTRODUCTORY WORDS
The question which the words of our first text propound, is, Is
forgiveness conditional? In answering this query we would...
-
Till seventy times seven — That is, as often as there is occasion. A
certain number is put for an uncertain....