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Verse 33. _YE SERPENTS, YE GENERATION OF VIPERS_] What a terrible
stroke! - Ye are serpents, and the offspring of serpents. This refers
to Matthew 23:31: they confessed that they were the children of...
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YE SERPENTS - This name is given to them on account of their
pretending to be pious, and very much devoted to God, but being
secretly evil, At the heart, with all their pretensions, they were
filled w...
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11. THE WOES OF THE KING AND HIS LAMENTATION OVER JERUSALEM.
CHAPTER 23
1. The Hypocrisy of the Pharisees.(Matthew 23:1 .) 2. The Woes of the
King upon Them.(Matthew 23:13 .) 3. The Lamentation over...
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A LAST WARNING. With Matthew 23:33 _cf._ the Baptist's words, Matthew
3:7.
Matthew 23:34. Luke 11:49 *....
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Alas for you, Scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for you erect the
tombs of the prophets, and adorn the memorials of the righteous, and
say, 'If we had lived in the days of our fathers, we would not h...
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SCRIBES AND PHARISEES (Matthew 23:1-39)
If a man is characteristically and temperamentally an irritable,
ill-tempered and irascible creature, notoriously given to uncontrolled
outbursts of passionate...
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GENERATION. offspring, or brood. Plural as in Matthew 3:7; Matthew
12:34. and Luke 3:7.
ESCAPE. escape from (Greek. _apo)_. App-104....
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_generation of vipers_ See note ch. Matthew 3:7.
_the damnation of hell_ Rather, THE JUDGMENT OF GEHENNA....
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Matthew 23:1-36. A PROPHETIC ODE, DENOUNCING THE PHARISEES AND THE
RELIGIOUS HYPOCRISY OF THE AGE
Each division is marked by its special beauty of poetical form....
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ΓΕΝΝΉΜΑΤΑ ἘΧΙΔΝΩ͂Ν. See note ch. Matthew 3:7....
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2. "Fill ye up then the measure of your fathers. 33. Ye serpents, ye
generation of vipers, how can ye escape the damnation of hell? [p.
791] 34. Wherefore, behold, I send unto you prophets, and wise m...
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_MORE WOES FOR THE SCRIBES, PHARISEES, HYPOCRITES MATTHEW 23:25-33:_
The scribes and Pharisees were not clean on the inside, in their
heart, where it mattered. They were religiously beautiful on the
o...
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ΌΦΕΙΣ _voc. pl. от_ ΌΦΙΣ (G3824) змея,
ΓΕΝΝΉΜΑ (G1081) то, что рождается;
потомство. Об основе этого _см._ HSB, 395-97.
ΈΧΙΔΝΏΝ _gen. pl. от_ ΈΧΙΔΝΑ (G2191) ядовитая
змея (_см._ Matthew 3:7).
ΦΎΓΗΤΕ...
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YE SERPENTS, &C.— See Luke 3:7. Men of warm tempers are apt to
mistake this part of Christ's discourse; they fancy that his giving
the Pharisees names expressive of their characters, and his denouncin...
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YE MAKE CLEAN THE OUTSIDE, &C.— 6. The _sixth_ woe is denounced for
their hypocrisy: they were at great pains to appear virtuous, and to
have a decent external conduct, while they neglected to beautif...
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TEXT: 23:29-36
29 Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye build the
sepulchres of the prophets, and garnish the tombs of the righteous, 30
and say, If we had been in the days of our fa...
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16 The Pharisees had practically annulled the Scriptures by false
interpretations and especially by human additions. Their commentaries
were full of distinctions which destroyed the spiritual force of...
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23:33 hell? (c-12) Gehenna....
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THE SEVEN WOES ON THE SCRIBES AND PHARISEES. Jesus, knowing that His
death was at hand, and that the conversion of His enemies was
hopeless, poured upon them a torrent of righteous indignation, in the...
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DENUNCIATION OF THE PHARISEES
1-36. Final denunciation of the Scribes and Pharisees. The other
synoptists insert in this place a brief utterance directed against the
scribes (Mark 12:38; Luke 20:45),...
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See Matthew 3:7; Matthew 12:34.
34-36. Luke 11:49;...
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MATTHEW’S GOOD NEWS
MATTHEW’S *GOSPEL
_HILDA BRIGHT_
CHAPTER 23
JESUS ACCUSES THE *PHARISEES 23:1-12
V1 Then Jesus spoke to the crowds and to his *disciples. V2 ‘The
men who teach the *Law and...
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YE GENERATION OF VIPERS. — Better, as in Matthew 3:7, _brood,_ or
_progeny of vipers._ The word of rebuke which had come before from the
lips of the Baptist, comes now, with even more intense keenness...
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6; Matthew 22:1; Matthew 23:1
CHAPTER 17
Conflict in the Temple - Matthew 21:18 - Matthew 22:1 -...
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_Final woe_ (Luke 11:47-48), dealing with yet another phase of
hypocrisy and a new form of the contrast between without and within;
apparent zeal for the honour of deceased prophets, real affinity wit...
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wful ending to a terrific charge, indicating that the men who are
predestined to superlative wickedness are appropriately doomed to the
uttermost penalty. ὄφεις, γεν. ἐχιδνῶν; already
stigmatised as f...
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JUDGMENT AND LAMENT
Matthew 23:27-39
True goodness recognizes and rewards good in the living; while the
evil-minded cannot, or will not, believe that the people whom they
meet daily are purely and si...
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This chapter is one of the most sublime and awful in the whole
inspired volume. It records the last words of Jesus to the crowds. He
summed up, He reached His verdict, He pronounced sentence.
It is a...
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WOES AGAINST THE SCRIBES AND PHARISEES
Luke 20:47; Mark 12:40; Matthew 23:13-39. “Woe unto you, scribes and
Pharisees, hypocrites! because you devour the houses of widows, and
through pretense make lo...
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"But woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye shut up
the kingdom of heaven against men: for ye neither go in yourselves,
neither suffer ye them that are entering to go in. (14) Woe unt...
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We now enter on the Lord's final presentation of Himself to Jerusalem,
traced, however, from Jericho; that is, from the city which had once
been the stronghold of the power of the Canaanite. The Lord...
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33._Offspring of vipers. _After having demonstrated that the _scribes
_are not only base enemies of sound doctrine, and wicked corrupters of
the worship of God, but likewise deadly plagues of the Chur...
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Chapter 23 clearly shews how far the disciples are viewed in
connection with the nation, inasmuch as they were Jews, although the
Lord judges the leaders, who beguiled the people and dishonoured God
b...
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YE SERVANTS, YE GENERATION OF VIPERS,.... The latter of these names,
John the Baptist calls the Sadducees and Pharisees by, in Matthew 3:7
and Christ, in Matthew 12:34 both express their craft and sub...
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_Ye_ serpents, _ye_ generation of vipers, how can ye escape the
damnation of hell?
Ver. 33. _Ye serpents_] _Serpentum tot sunt venena, quot genera, _
saith Isidore, _tot pernicics quot species, tot d...
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_Fill ye up then the measure of your fathers' wickedness_ Ye may now
be as wicked as they: a word of permission, not of command: as if he
had said, I contend with you no longer: I leave you to yoursel...
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YE SERPENTS, YE GENERATION OF VIPERS, HOW CAN YE ESCAPE THE DAMNATION
OF HELL?
The actual and reputed graves of the prophets of the Old Testament
were held in great veneration by the Jews of the time...
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The eighth woe:...
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The Lord now turns to speak to the entire crowd, His disciples being
mentioned as included. He warns them against the hypocrisy of scribes
and Pharisees, for they sat in Moses' seat as enforcers of th...
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13-33 The scribes and Pharisees were enemies to the gospel of Christ,
and therefore to the salvation of the souls of men. It is bad to keep
away from Christ ourselves, but worse also to keep others f...
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Ver. 31-33. You (saith our Lord) confess that you are lineally
descended from those who killed the prophets: you have not only their
blood communicated to you, but their spirit; your behaviours and
ca...
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Irenaeus Against Heresies Book IV
And therefore did the Lord term those whom He knew to be the offspring
of men "a generation of vipers; "[644]...
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Matthew 23:33 Serpents G3789 brood G1081 vipers G2191 How G4459 can
G5343 (G5632) escape G575 condemnation G2920 h
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“You serpents, you offspring of vipers, how will you escape the
judgment of Gehenna?”
Jesus then depicts all their attempts to appear righteous as simply
indicating that like snakes and vipers who are...
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IN SPITE OF THEIR CLAIMS TO BE OTHERWISE THEY SHOULD RECOGNISE THAT
THEY WERE SIMPLY AS BAD AS THEIR FATHERS (23:29-33).
Along with their generation the Scribes and Pharisees made a great
fuss about t...
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JESUS FACES THE SCRIBES AND PHARISEES UP TO THEIR HYPOCRISY
(23:13-33).
It will be quite clear that the words which Jesus has spoken to His
disciples and the crowds could hardly have failed to rile th...
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WORDS IN THE TEMPLE (23:1-39).
a Exhortation to His disciples and the crowds not to be like the
Scribes and Pharisees, but to be doers and not hearers only. In
contrast to the Scribes and Pharisees t...
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Matthew 23:33. YE SERPENTS, YE BROOD OF VIPERS, etc. Comp. the similar
language of John the Baptist (chap. Matthew 3:7). That was the first,
and this the last recorded address to the unchanged Pharise...
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This discourse (peculiar to Matthew) was delivered on Tuesday
preceding the crucifixion, although similar sayings (found in Luke
11:13) were uttered on a previous occasion. The intercourse with the
Ph...
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YE SERPENTS, YE OFFSPRING OF VIPERS
(οφεις γεννηματα εχιδνων). These blistering words
come as a climax and remind one of the Baptist (Matthew 3:17) and of
the time when the Pharisees accused Jesus o...
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Matthew 23:29. _Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites!
because ye build the tombs of the prophets, and garnish the sepulchers
of the righteous, And say, If we had been in the days of our fat...
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CONTENTS: Jesus denounces woes upon the Pharisees for their hypocrisy.
His lament over Jerusalem.
CHARACTERS: Jesus.
CONCLUSION: Nothing is more displeasing to our Lord Jesus Christ than
hyprocrisy,...
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Matthew 23:2. _Sit in Moses' seat._ The sanhedrim had seventy one
chairs of gold, or rather gilt with gold. The council which sat at
Alexandria had also chairs of gold. The highpriest was the presiden...
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HOW DO YOU EXPECT TO ESCAPE? The Bible speaks to warn, as well as to
invite....
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_How can ye escape the damnation of hell?_
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THE DIFFICULTY OF ESCAPING THE DAMNATION OF HELL
I. What your situation actually is.
1. You are even now under sentence of condemnation.
2. You need t...
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MATTHEW—NOTE ON MATTHEW 23:13 Jesus now speaks directly to the
scribes and Pharisees. He declares seven “woes” (or laments) upon
them that echo the criticisms he has repeated throughout his ministry....
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CHAPTER 23
_Then Jesus spake_, &c. _Then_, that is to say, when, by His most wise
answers and reasonings, He had confounded the errors of the Scribes
and Pharisees, and had proved that He was the Mes...
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_CRITICAL NOTES_
Matthew 23:29. BUILD THE TOMBS, ETC.—See R.V. A portion of the
temple offerings were devoted to this purpose.
Matthew 23:31. THE CHILDREN.—You inherit their wickedness in
compassing...
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EXPOSITION
MATTHEW 23:1
_Denunciation of the scribes and Pharisees, and lamentation over
Jerusalem which followed their guidance to her own destruction.
_(Peculiar to St. Matthew.)
MATTHEW 23:1
TH...
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Matthew's gospel twenty-three. Jesus has been at the temple and He was
challenged as to His authority by these priests, and then He was asked
questions by the scribes, the Pharisees, the Sadducees. An...
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2 Corinthians 11:3; Genesis 3:15; Hebrews 10:29; Hebrews 12:25;...
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A DOUBLE-MINDED MAN
Matthew 23:23
INTRODUCTORY WORDS
"A double minded man is unstable in all his days." We have in Matthew
23:1, a striking illustration of these words.
1. WE HAVE PIETY as A PRETEN...
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Ye serpents — Our Lord having now lost all hope of reclaiming these,
speaks so as to affright others from the like sins....