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MATTHEW 5:47 evqnikoi, {B}
In later witnesses, followed by the Textus Receptus, the reading
telw/nai appears to have been substituted for evqnikoi, in order to
bring the statement into closer paralle...
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Verse Matthew 5:47. _AND IF YE SALUTE YOUR BRETHREN ONLY_] Instead of
αδελφους _brethren_, upwards of one hundred MSS., and several
of them of great authority and antiquity, have φιλους _friends_.
Th...
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AND IF YOU SALUTE YOUR BRETHREN ... - The word “salute” here means
to show the customary tokens of civility, or to treat with the common
marks of friendship. See the notes at Luke 10:4. The Saviour sa...
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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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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...
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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...
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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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PUBLICANS. L. with Vulgate and some codices read "Gentiles". The
publican was despised; Gentiles were detested....
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_salute your brethren only_ See Matthew 5:43. The Hebrew salutation
was _Shalom_(peace).
The higher MS. authority gives "Gentiles" or "heathen," instead of
"publicans....
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ἘΘΝΙΚΟῚ for τελῶναι of the _textus receptus_, on the
highest authority.
47. ΤΟΥ̓Σ�. See Matthew 5:43. The Hebrew salutation was
_Shalom_ (peace)....
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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...
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_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...
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ΆΣΠΆΣΗΣΘΕ _aor. conj. med. (dep.) от_ ΆΣΠΆΖΟΜΑΙ
(G782) приветствовать. На Востоке это
играет важную роль; здесь
символизирует дружеские отношения,
предполагающие пожелания Божьего
благословения и мира...
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DISCOURSE: 1310
CHRISTIANS DO MORE THAN OTHERS
Matthew 5:47. _What do ye more than others?_
OUR Lord is here rescuing the law from the false glosses with which
the Scribes and Pharisees had obscured...
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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...
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AND IF YE SALUTE— The original word ασπασησθε denotes all
outward signs of friendship, such as embracing, wishing well, &c. It
is the word used by the apostles in their salutations, Romans 16 &c.
The...
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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...
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And if ye salute your brethren only what do ye more than others? do
not even the publicans so? And if ye salute your brethren only, what
do ye more than others? do not even the publicans so?
AND I...
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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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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...
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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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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 YE SALUTE YOUR BRETHREN. — The prominence of salutation in the
social life of the East gives a special vividness to this precept. To
utter the formal “Peace be with you,” to follow that up by
manif...
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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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Characteristically lofty inducements to obey the new law; likeness to
God (Matthew 5:45); moral distinction among men (Matthew 5:46-47).
υἱοὶ τοῦ πατρὸς ὑμῶν : in order that ye may be
indeed sons of G...
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ἀσπάσησθε, “Salute,” a very slight display of love from
our Western point of view, a mere civility; more significant in the
East; symbolic here of friendly relations, hence Tholuck, Bleek and
others i...
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_Sixth and final illustration: from the Law of Love_. To an old
partial form of the law Jesus opposes a new universal one....
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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...
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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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And if ye salute your brethren only, what do ye more [than others]? do
not even the (x) publicans so?
(x) They that were the toll masters, and had the oversight of tributes
and customs: this was a ty...
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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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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...
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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 YOU SALUTE YOUR BRETHREN ONLY,.... This does not mean
salutation by embraces or kisses, but by words, asking of each other's
welfare, and wishing prosperity and happiness to one another.
"The...
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And if ye salute your brethren only, what do ye more _than others_ ?
do not even the publicans so?
Ver. 47. _What do ye more than others?_] Singular things are expected
and required of such as have r...
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AND IF YE SALUTE YOUR BRETHREN ONLY, WHAT DO YE MORE THAN OTHERS? DO
NOT EVEN THE PUBLICANS SO?
That is the usual, the customary way of dealing in the world: Kind
deeds are rewarded with kind deeds, f...
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And there is also the moral distinction;...
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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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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...
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Ver. 46,47. Reason obliges you, who expect a reward from God for what
you do, to do something more than those who know of no such reward, or
at least live in no expectation of any such thing; and you...
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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...
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“For if you love those who love you, what reward have you?
Do not even the civil servants the same?
And if you salute your brethren only, what do you more than others?
Do not even the Gentiles the...
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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 5:47. The same idea is repeated here, except that HEATHEN is
substituted for ‘publicans, according to the best authorities. The
Jews, despising the Gentiles, did not usually salute them. The
m...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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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SPEAK ONLY TO YOUR FRIENDS. The Jews (that is, the teachers of the Law
and the Pharisees and Sadducees) avoided other generally, and spoke
only to those of their own group. Even the pagans had this mu...
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_What do ye more?_
CHRISTIAN BENEVOLENCE
I. What have we more than others?
1. You have forgiveness of sins.
2. Peace with God.
3. Fellowship with God.
4. You have in expectation a perfect delive...
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MATTHEW—NOTE ON MATTHEW 5:46 In Palestine, TAX COLLECTORS
represented the Roman government. Their own people hated them because
they often charged extra taxes and took the money for themselves (see...
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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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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....
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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 Peter 2:20; Luke 10:4; Luke 10:5; Luke 6:32; Matthew 5:20;...
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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...
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And if ye salute your friends only — Our Lord probably glances at
those prejudices, which different sects had against each other, and
intimates, that he would not have his followers imbibe that narrow...