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AND IF THY RIGHT HAND OFFEND THEE - The right hand is selected for the
same reason as the right eye, because it is one of the most important
members of the human body. The idea is, that the dearest ea...
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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:...
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MATTHEW 5:27 F. ADULTERY. Jesus again extends the scope of the
prohibition from actions to thoughts. There is so mething more here
than the seventh or even the tenth commandment, where the coveting is...
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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...
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If your right eye proves a stumbling-block to you, tear it out and
throw it away from you; for it is better that one part of your body
should be destroyed, than that your whole body should go away to...
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THY RIGHT. See note on Matthew 5:29....
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(β)
Adultery, 27–32...
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VER 29. "AND IF THEY RIGHT EYE OFFEND THEE, PLUCK IT OUT, AND CAST IT
FROM THEE: FOR IT IS PROFITABLE FOR THEE THAT ONE OF THY MEMBERS
SHOULD PERISH, AND NOT THAT THY WHOLE BODY SHOULD BE CAST INTO HE...
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_JESUS' TEACHING ABOUT MURDER, ADULTERY AND SWEARING MATTHEW 5:21-37:_
In Matthew 5:21-26 we learn that the thought of hatred produces the
act of murder. Therefore, the thought is the act in the heart...
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ΧΕΊ Ρ (G5495) рука. Правая рука может быть
средством мастурбации (DA; b. Nidda 13a-b; SB,
1:302-303). Здесь приводится условие
(допущение) в целях аргументации (GGBB,
693; ВВС),
ΈΚΚΟΨΟΝ _aor. imper....
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DISCOURSE: 1304
THE NECESSITY OF MORTIFYING EVERY SIN
Matthew 5:29. If thy right eye offend thee, pluck it out, and cast it
from thee: for it is profitable for thee that one of thy members
should peri...
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AND IF THY RIGHT EYE OFFEND THEE, &C.— The word rendered _offend
thee,_ σκανδαλιζει, signifies to be a stumbling-block in a
person's way, or the occasion of his fall; and so implies much more
than mer...
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C. THE RELATION OF THE WISE AND GODLY MAN TO THE LAW
3. HIS ATTITUDE TOWARD LUST.
TEXT: 5:27-32
27. Ye have heard that it was said, Thou shalt not commit adultery:
28. but I say unto you, that every o...
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And if thy right hand offend thee, cut it off, and cast it from thee:
for it is profitable for thee that one of thy members should perish,
and not that thy whole body should be cast into hell.
AND...
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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...
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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
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REVISION OF THE LAW OF ADULTERY. Jesus expands the Mosaic prohibition
of adultery into a law of inward purity of the strictest kind, and
gives important counsel to the tempted....
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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...
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IF THY RIGHT HAND OFFEND THEE. — The repetition of the same form of
warning has, in part, the emphasis of iteration, but it points also to
a distinct danger. Not the senses only, through which we rece...
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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...
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_Counsel to the tempted_, expressing keen perception of the danger and
strong recoil from a sin to be shunned at all hazards, even by
excision, as it were, of offending members; two _named_, eye and h...
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_Second illustration_, taken from the seventh commandment. A grand
moral law, in brief lapidary style guarding the married relation and
the sanctity of home. Of course the Hebrew legislator condemned...
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PURE EYES AND CLEAN SPEECH
Matthew 5:27-37
The legislation of the old time insisted that no member of the
commonwealth should commit adultery, and enforced terrible penalties.
See Deuteronomy 22:22-2...
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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...
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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...
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Reader! do not fail to observe the spiritual nature of the law of GOD.
It is not limited to actions, but includes thoughts. The heart is the
forge where all actions are worked. And whether they be bro...
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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...
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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...
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AND IF THY RIGHT HAND OFFEND THEE,.... Or "cause thee to offend"; that
is, is the means of ensnaring thine heart; and of drawing thee into
either mental, or actual adultery; for, as before, all unchas...
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And if thy right hand offend thee, cut it off, and cast _it_ from
thee: for it is profitable for thee that one of thy members should
perish, and not _that_ thy whole body should be cast into hell.
Ve...
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_If thy right eye offend thee_ If any person or thing, as pleasant and
as dear to thee as thy right eye, should be a stumbling-block in thy
way, and an occasion of thy falling, or should be a means of...
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AND IF THY RIGHT HAND OFFEND THEE, CUT IT OFF AND CAST IT FROM THEE.
FOR IT IS PROFITABLE FOR THEE THAT ONE OF THY MEMBERS SHOULD PERISH,
AND NOT THAT THY WHOLE BODY SHOULD BE CAST INTO HELL.
The righ...
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Christ's advice to the tempted:...
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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...
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27-32 Victory over the desires of the heart, must be attended with
painful exertions. But it must be done. Every thing is bestowed to
save us from our sins, not in them. All our senses and powers mus...
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Ver. 29,30. The sum of these two verses is, that the salvation of our
immortal souls is to be preferred before all things, be they never so
dear and precious to us; and that if men's ordinary discreti...
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2). GOD'S CONCERN ABOUT THE PURITY OF WOMEN: WHAT THE DISCIPLES'
ATTITUDE IS TO BE TOWARDS THE LAW CONCERNING ADULTERY, DIVORCE, AND
SEXUAL ATTITUDE: THE NEED TO BE HARSH WITH THEMSELVES ABOUT SIN
(5:...
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FIVE FULLER APPLICATIONS OF THE LAW (5:21-43).
In order to bring home what His disciples' approach to the Law should
be Jesus selects five pivotal aspects of the Law, and expands on them
and explains...
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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...
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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...
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Matthew 5:29
This is one of the texts which the mass of mankind, if they would
confess it, feel rather as a blow when they read it. They feel it as a
text which it would be disagreeable to them to th...
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Matthew 5:1. _And seeing the multitudes, he went up into a mountain:
and when he was set, his disciples came unto him: And he opened his
mouth, and taught them, saying,-_
Our Saviour soon gathered a...
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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,...
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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...
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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...
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TAKE IT OUT... CUT IT OFF. Symbolic. It would not solve the problem to
take out your eye or cut off your hand. The sin springs from the
desire of the heart. Jesus says it would be a good trade to sacr...
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_Thy right hand offend._
I. Rather than anything, though ever so dear and precious to thee,
should hinder thee in thy Christian progress, or prove a means of
snaring thy soul and body, absolutely and...
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MATTHEW—NOTE ON MATTHEW 5:29 RIGHT EYE... RIGHT HAND. The right side
often stood for the more powerful or important. The eye is the medium
through which one is tempted to sin. The hand is used to comm...
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MATTHEW—NOTE ON MATTHEW 5:21 YOU HAVE HEARD THAT IT WAS SAID (vv.
Matthew 5:21, Matt
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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...
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_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...
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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...
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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...
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1 Corinthians 8:13; 1 Peter 2:8; Galatians 5:11; Luke 12:5; Luke 17:2;
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THE SERMON ON THE MOUNT
Matthew 5:1
INTRODUCTORY WORDS
1. The key to the Sermon on the Mount is found in Matthew 4:23 :
"preaching the Gospel of the Kingdom."
Before the Lord sat a great crowd of p...
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See note ... "Matthew 5:29"....