44-45.
But now I tell you. Christ presents God's Truth. Love is the basic law of Christ's Kingdom. See the Parable of the Good Samaritan (Luke 10:30-37). The kind of love which Jesus commands is a deliberate act, rather than an emotion. For this reason, we are able to "love" those whom we do not "like," even enemies. This is the kind of love which God shows us (Romans 5:6-11). See the "New Commandment" (John 13:34-35).
MATTHEW 5:44 _(bis)_ u`mw/n kai. proseu,cesqe u`pe.r tw/n diwko,ntwn u`ma/j {A} Later witnesses enrich the text by incorporating clauses from the parallel account in Luke 6:27-28. If the clauses were...
Verse 44. _LOVE YOUR ENEMIES_] This is the most sublime piece of morality ever given to man. Has it appeared _unreasonable_ and _absurd_ to some? It has. And why? Because it is _natural_ to man to av...
LOVE YOUR ENEMIES - There are two kinds of love, involving the same general feeling, or springing from the same fountain of good-will to all mankind, but differing so far as to admit of separation in...
5. THE PROCLAMATION OF THE KING CONCERNING HIS KINGDOM. CHAPTER S 5-7 _ 1. The Characteristics of the heirs of the Kingdom.(Matthew 5:1 .) 2. The Confirmation of the Law and its Expansion.(Matthew 5:...
LOVING ONE'S NEIGHBOUR (_cf._ Luke 6:27 f., Matthew 5:32).Thou shalt love thy neighbour (_i.e._ fellow Israelite) is the precept of the Law (Leviticus 19:18); and hate thine enemy is a Rabbinic infere...
You have heard that it has been said: You shall love your neighbour, and you shall hate your enemy; but I say to you: Love your enemies, and pray for those who persecute you, so that you may become th...
THE SERMON ON THE MOUNT (Matthew 5:1-48) As we have already seen, Matthew has a careful pattern in his gospel. In his story of the baptism of Jesus he shows us Jesus realizing that the hour has struc...
BLESS THEM... HATE YOU. This clause is omitted by all the critical Greek texts. See App-94. PRAY. Greek. _proseuchomai._ App-134. FOR. on behalf of. Greek. _huper._...
Several editors, with high MS. authority, omit the words "bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you," and "despitefully use you and." The omission, however, breaks the gradation and bal...
Here we miss the beautiful words undoubtedly spoken by Christ but omitted in this passage by א B and many of the fathers and versions, εὐλογεῖτε τοὺς καταρωμένους ὑμᾶς καλῶς ποιεῖτε τοὺς μισοῦντας ὑμᾶ...
Ver 43. "Ye have heard that it hath been said, 'Thou shalt love thy neighbour, and hate thine enemy.' 44. But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate yo...
_JESUS' TEACHINGS ABOUT RETALIATION AND LOVE MATTHEW 5:38-48:_ Having the right attitude will cause us to go the second mile. (Matthew 5:38-42) Do anything and everything within your power to show the...
ΑΓΑΠΆΤΕ _praes. imper. act. от_ ΆΓΑΠΆΩ (G25). _Praes. imper._ используется для описания постоянного отношения. Обсуждение этой заповеди _см._ в John Piper, "Love Your Enemies: Jesus' Love Command in t...
DISCOURSE: 1309 LOVE TO ENEMIES ENJOINED Matthew 5:43. Ye have heard that it hath been said, Thou shalt love thy neighbour, and hate thine enemy. But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that...
WHICH DESPITEFULLY USE YOU, &C.— _Who falsely accuse_ or _traduce you, and persecute you._ Dr. Doddridge renders it, _Who insult you and persecute you._ The particulars mentioned in this verse, are ce...
C. THE WISE AND GODLY MAN IN RELATION TO THE LAW 6. HIS ATTITUDE TOWARD PERFECT love. (Parallel Luke 6:32-36) TEXT: 5:43-48 43. Ye have heard that it was said, Thou shalt love thy neighbor, and hate...
But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you; BUT I SAY UNTO YOU, LOVE YOUR ENEMI...
22 Gehenna, the valley of the son of Hinnom, just below the city of Jerusalem, where idolatrous worship was once carried on and where the city offal was burned, will once more become the incinerator f...
LOVE YOUR ENEMIES] The word for 'love' is carefully chosen. It is not demanded that we should love our enemies with a natural and spontaneous affection (_philein_), but with the supernatural Christian...
HATRED OF ENEMIES FORBIDDEN, LOVE ENJOINED (Luke 6:27). The maxim 'Thou shalt love thy neighbour' is found in Leviticus 19:18. The words 'Thou shalt hate thine enemy' are nowhere found in the Pentateu...
THE SERMON ON THE MOUNT John 5:1 to John 7:29. The Sermon on the Mount: see Luke 6:20. This sermon is so similar to the sermon reported by St. Luke (Luke 6:20), that it is
MATTHEW’S GOOD NEWS MATTHEW’S *GOSPEL _HILDA BRIGHT_ CHAPTER 5 JESUS TEACHES 5:1–7:29 INTRODUCTION This is the first of the five main sections that report what Jesus taught in Matthew’s *gospe...
BLESS THEM THAT CURSE YOU, DO GOOD TO THEM THAT HATE YOU. — The latter words are omitted in so many of the most ancient MSS. that most recent editors hold that they were inserted in the fourth or fift...
CHAPTER 7 The Gospel of the Kingdom ("Sermon on the Mount") - Matthew 5:1; Matthew 6:1; Matthew 7:1 IT may seem almost heresy to object to the time-honoured title "Sermon on the Mount"; yet, so smal...
ἐχθροὺς may be taken in all senses: national, private, religious. Jesus absolutely negatives hatred as inhuman. But the sequel shows that He has in view the enemies whom it is most difficult to love δ...
_Sixth and final illustration: from the Law of Love_. To an old partial form of the law Jesus opposes a new universal one....
BROTHERLY RELATIONSHIP Matthew 5:38-48 In mentioning the second mile, our Lord refers to a well-known Eastern custom of forwarding messages by relays of forced labor. We leave our homes on a given mo...
In the three Chapter s beginning here we have the Magna Charta of the Kingdom. This chapter opens with a great revelation of its supreme condition. Character is everything. The first word is suggestiv...
I come to establish the purity of the law, which they have corrupted. (Haydock)...
CHAPTER 16 SERMON ON THE MOUNT Matthew 5-7, and Luke 6:20-49. A few days ago it was my privilege to spend two beautiful bright days at the sea of Galilee, sailing over it, and visiting the places of...
Was there ever such a refinement of the most perfect law of the LORD as is here drawn? And where shall we look for the fulfilment of it but in the Lord JESUS himself? He indeed, and He only, observed...
God has been pleased, in the separate accounts He has given us of our Lord Jesus, to display not only His own grace and wisdom, but the infinite excellency of His Son. It is our wisdom to seek to prof...
_THE CHRISTIAN AND HIS ENEMIES_ ‘I say unto you, Love your enemies.’ Matthew 5:44 It is one of the signs of the Divine originality of Christ that in the midst of a condition of society which throug...
44._Love your enemies. _This single point includes the whole of the former doctrine: for he who shall bring his mind to love those who hate him, will naturally refrain from all revenge, will patiently...
He then gathers around Him those who were definitively to follow Him in His ministry and His temptations; and, at His call, to link their portion and their lot with His, forsaking all beside. The str...
BUT I SAY UNTO YOU, LOVE YOUR ENEMIES,.... That is, as the Apostle Paul may be thought to interpret the words of Christ, Romans 12:20. "If thine enemy hunger, feed him: if he thirst, give him drink":...
But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you; Ver. 44. _But I say unto you, Love yo...
LOVE YOUR ENEMIES; not their character or their conduct, but their souls. Pray for them and seek their good. Love to enemies, and a disposition to do them the greatest good which duty will permit, lik...
Final illustration, from the general law of love:...
BUT I SAY UNTO YOU, LOVE YOUR ENEMIES, BLESS THEM THAT CURSE YOU, DO GOOD TO THEM THAT HATE YOU, AND PRAY FOR THEM WHICH DESPITEFULLY USE YOU AND PERSECUTE YOU. The injunction receives its application...
From every direction He attracted followers, Galilee mentioned first, but also Decapolis beyond the sea of Galilee, Jerusalem and Judea, and east of Jordan. No doubt their motives for following Him we...
43-48 The Jewish teachers by "neighbour" understood only those who were of their own country, nation, and religion, whom they were pleased to look upon as their friends. The Lord Jesus teaches that w...
1. Of not seeking unlawful private revenge. _ Bless them that curse you:_ do not return revilin....
Epistle of Polycarp to the Philippians and potentates, and princes, and for those that persecute and hate you,[74] Irenaeus Against Heresies Book III the long-suffering, patience, compassion, and g...
Matthew 5:44 But G1161 I G1473 say G3004 (G5719) you G5213 love G25 (G5720) your G5216 enemies...
“But I say to you, love your enemies, And pray for those who persecute you, That you may be sons of your Father who is in heaven, For he makes his sun to rise on the evil and the good, And sends r...
THE DISCIPLES ARE TO LOVE EVEN THEIR ENEMIES AND ARE TO SEEK TO BE PERFECT EVEN AS THEIR FATHER IN HEAVEN IS PERFECT (5:43-48). Jesus has been slowly building up to this final revelation of the love...
Matthew 5:44. LOVE YOUR ENEMIES. The controlling principle, literally and universally applicable. One of the few precepts which admit of no distinction between ‘letter' and ‘spirit' The law of love, o...
Our Lord defines His relation to the old dispensation (Matthew 5:17-19), thus introducing the negative leading thought, viz., the utter failure of the Pharisees to attain true righteousness, according...
GENERAL CHARACTER. The magna charta of Christ's Kingdom: the unfolding of His righteousness; the sublimest code of morals ever proclaimed on earth; the counterpart of the legislation on Mount Sinai; C...
Matthew 5:43 I. Our Lord does not say here that all men are to be equally dear to us, or equally esteemed by us. He does not substitute a vague principle of universal philanthropy in the room of those...
Matthew 5:43. _Ye have heard that it hath been said, Thou shalt love thy neighbor, and hate thine enemy._ In this case a command of Scripture had a human antithesis fitted on to it by depraved minds...
Matthew 5:17. _Think not that I am came to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfill._ The life, work, and words of Christ are not an emendation of the Old Testament,...
Matthew 5:41. _And whosoever shall compel thee to go a mile, go with him twain._ If you can do him any service, do it cheerfully, do it readily. Do what he wants of you. Matthew 5:42. _Give to him t...
CONTENTS: Sermon on the mount. Beatitudes. Believer as salt and light. Christ's relation to the law. Divorce. CHARACTERS: God, Jesus. CONCLUSION: The relationship of a child of God will be manifeste...
Matthew 5:1. _Seeing the multitudes,_ assembled from six provinces to see and to hear the great, the promised prophet, who had opened his ministry with glorious miracles. But our Saviour looked upon t...
_But I say unto you._ THE IMPERATIVES OF JESUS I. The range and extent of Jesus’ imperative speeches. He keeps up to His own superior level of command upon all occasions and before all men. Men like...
MATTHEW—NOTE ON MATTHEW 5:21 YOU HAVE HEARD THAT IT WAS SAID (vv. Matthew 5:21, Matt
JESUS TEACHES ABOUT LOVING ENEMIES MATTHEW 5:43-48; LUKE 6:27-36; MATTHEW 5:43 Ye have heard that it hath been said, Thou shalt love thy neighbour, and hate thine enemy....
CHAPTER 5 _Went up into a mountain._ Let us inquire what mountain this was? "Some simple brethren," says S. Jerome, "think that Christ taught the Beatitudes, and the things which follow, on the mount...
_CRITICAL NOTES_ GENERAL REMARKS ON THE SERMON ON THE MOUNT _The aim and contents of the_ “_Sermon_.”—No mere sermon is this, only distinguished from others of its class by its reach and sweep and po...
EXPOSITION MATTHEW 5:1 AND SEEING THE MULTITUDES; _i.e. _those spoken of in Matthew 4:25—the multitudes who were at that point of time following him. HE WENT UP. From the lower ground by the lake. I...
Tonight we have the Sermon on the Mount, what a fantastic portion of scripture. Matthew five, And seeing the multitudes, he went up into a mountain: and when he has sat down, his disciples came unto...
1 Corinthians 13:4; 1 Corinthians 4:12; 1 Corinthians 4:13; 1 Peter 2:23;...
THE SERMON ON THE MOUNT (CONTINUED) Matthew 5:43; _Matthew 6:1_ INTRODUCTORY WORDS I. A FOURFOLD COMMAND 1. "Love your enemies." The whole world loves those who love them. That is only natural. But...
Bless them that curse you — Speak all the good you can to and of them, who speak all evil to and of you. Repay love in thought, word, and deed, to those who hate you, and show it both in word and deed...