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MATTHEW 6:12 avfh,kamen
Is the second verb in the fifth petition “as we forgive” (AV) or
“as we have forgiven” (RSV)? The latter translates the aorist form
of the verb (avfh,kamen), read by a* B Z 1...
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Verse Matthew 6:12. _AND FORGIVE US OUR DEBTS_] Sin is represented
here under the notion of a _debt_, and as our sins are _many_, they
are called here _debts_. God made man that he might live to his...
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This passage contains the Lord’s prayer, a composition unequalled
for comprehensiveness and for beauty. It is supposed that some of
these petitions were taken from those in common use among the Jews....
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CHAPTER 6
_ 1. The Better Righteousness.(Matthew 6:1 .) 2. Kept in the World;
Single-eyed; Trusting God.(Matthew 6:19 .)_
Our Lord said: “For I say unto you, that unless your righteousness
surpass th...
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THE FULFILLED LAW IN RELATION TO THE LIFE OF THE PHARISEES. Mt. only,
though the digression on Prayer (Matthew 6:7) has parallels in Lk.
MATTHEW 6:1 is a general warning; three aspects of the mechani...
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FORGIVE US OUR DEBTS, AS WE FORGIVE, ETC.
This is the fifth petition. Debts mean moral obligations unfulfilled,
our shortcomings, our sins. Let it be noted with emphasis that God is
asked to forgive u...
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So, then, pray in this way: Our Father in heaven, let your name be
held holy: Let your Kingdom come: Let your will be done, as in heaven,
so upon earth: Give us to-day bread for the coming day: Forgiv...
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THE REWARD MOTIVE IN THE CHRISTIAN LIFE (Matthew 6:1-18)
When we study the opening verses of Matthew 6:1-34, we are
immediately confronted with one most important question-- What is the
place of the...
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OUR DEBTS. Sin is so called because failure in the obligation involves
expiation and satisfaction.
WE. we also. that is only what _we_ mortals do. "We" is thus emphatic
("also" is ignored by the Auth...
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The Lord's Prayer
St Luke 11:2-4, where the prayer is found in a different connection,
and is given by our Lord in answer to a request from the disciples to
teach them to pray, "even as John taught h...
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_debts_ Sins are debts, shortcomings in the service due to God.
_forgive_ The aorist should be read in the Greek text. The force would
then be that an act of forgiveness on man's part is past before h...
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ἈΦΉΚΑΜΕΝ for ἀφίεμεν or ἀφίομεν: this
important change has the highest support (אBZ). See notes.
12. ἌΦΕΣ ἩΜΙ͂Ν ΤᾺ ὈΦΕΙΛΉΜΑΤΑ ἩΜΩ͂Ν.
ἀφιέναι and ἄφεσις are the words used in the N.T. to
express the ac...
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THE LORD’S PRAYER
St Luke 11:2-4, where the prayer is found in a different connection,
and is given by our Lord in answer to a request from the disciples to
teach them to pray, ‘even as John taught h...
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VER 12. "AND FORGIVE US OUR DEBTS, AS WE FORGIVE OUR DEBTORS."
Cyprian, Tr. vii, 15: After supply of food, next pardon of sin is
asked for, that he who is fed of God may live in God, and not only the...
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_THE ACTION OF PRAYING MATTHEW 6:5-15_ : Prayer is to be a simple
petition from a child (Christian) to his Father (God). We are not to
pray to be "seen of men" but to be "heard of God." Prayer involve...
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DISCOURSE: 1316
THE LORD’S PRAYER
Matthew 6:12. _And forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors_.
THE petitions of men to the Supreme Being will be presented in a
different order, according to t...
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AND FORGIVE US OUR DEBTS, &C.— 5. We may observe, that this is the
only petition in this prayer upon which our Lord enlarges, and indeed
it is a petition of the greater consequence, and the more to be...
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D. THE MOTIVES OF THE WISE AND GODLY MAN (Matthew 6:1-18)
3. HIS MOTIVE FOR PRAYING TO GOD. (Matthew 6:5-15,)
TEXT: 6:5-15
5.
And when ye pray, ye shall not be as the hypocrites: for they love to
s...
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And forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors.
AND FORGIVE US OUR DEBTS. A vitally important view of sin this-as an
offence against God demanding reparation to His dishonoured claims
upon our...
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1 The Pharisees deemed alms-giving, prayer and fasting the three most
eminent exhibitions of piety, for alms was the ideal expression of
their relation to their neighbor, prayer of their intercourse w...
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AND FORGIVE US OUR DEBTS AS WE FORGIVE OUR DEBTORS] RV 'as we also
have forgiven our debtors.' No one who has not forgiven his enemies
can pray the Lord's Prayer, which is another proof that it is mea...
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THE SERMON ON THE MOUNT (CONTINUED)
1. God's approval, not man's, to be sought in all our actions. Jesus
does not say that we are to do good expecting no reward of any kind,
but that we are to look fo...
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MAXIMS FOR PRAYER, AND THE LORD'S PRAYER. Perhaps the most significant
v. of this section is Matthew 6:8, 'Your Father knoweth what things ye
have need of, before ye ask him.' Christians, therefore, a...
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THE EARTHLY TREASURE AND THE HEAVENLY TREASURE. When do we lay up
'treasure in heaven'? Whenever we give alms (Matthew 6:2), or pray
(Matthew 6:5), or fast (Matthew 6:16), to please God rather than ma...
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MATTHEW’S GOOD NEWS
MATTHEW’S *GOSPEL
_HILDA BRIGHT_
CHAPTER 6
THE RIGHT WAY TO GIVE GIFTS 6:1-4
V1 ‘Be careful not to show how good you are in front of other
people. Do not do your good works...
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FORGIVE US OUR DEBTS. — _Duty_ — _i.e.,_ that which we owe, or
ought to do — and _debts_ are, it may be noted, only different forms
of the same word. A duty unfulfilled is a debt unpaid. Primarily,
th...
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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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_Further instruction in prayer_. Weiss (Mt.-Evan.) regards this
passage as an interpolation, having no proper place in an
anti-Pharisaic discourse. Both the opinion and its ground are
doubtful. As reg...
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_The Lord's Prayer_. Again, in Luke 11:1-4 _vide_ notes there. Here I
remark only that Luke's form, true reading, is shorter than Matthew's.
On this ground Kamphausen (_Das Gebet des Herrn_) argues fo...
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_Fifth petition_. ὀφειλήματα, in classics literal debts,
here moral debts, sins (ἁμαρτίας in Luke 11:4). The more men
desire God's will to be done the more conscious they are of
shortcoming. The more...
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HOW TO PRAY AND HOW TO FAST
Matthew 6:9-18
This might more fitly be termed the “disciples' prayer.” As we
tread its stately aisles, we cannot but think of the myriads who have
stood on the same pavem...
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In the first verse the Revised Version has substituted the word
"righteousness" for "alms," "a reading approved of, almost
unanimously, by the great editors and critics" (Morrison). This is a
statemen...
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Of all the petitions this alone is repeated twice. God puts our
judgment in our own hands, that none might complain, being the author
of his own sentence. He could have forgiven us our sins without th...
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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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And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil: For thine
is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, forever. Amen.
We have here the pattern of prayer; which the LORD JESUS himself hath...
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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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_FORGIVENESS FOR THE FORGIVING_
‘Forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors.’
Matthew 6:12
It is with the precious promises of God’s Word before us, and with
all the bitter remembrance of our...
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12._And forgive us our debts _Here it may be proper that we should be
reminded of what I said a little before, that Christ, in arranging the
prayers of his people, did not consider which was first or...
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This discourse gives the principles of the kingdom, but supposes the
rejection of the King, and the position into which this would bring
those that were His; who consequently must look for a heavenly...
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AND FORGIVE US OUR DEBTS,.... Nothing is more frequent in the Jewish
writings than to call sins חובי, "debts"; and the phrase, of
forgiving, is used both of God and men. Thus the prayer of Solomon is...
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And forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors.
Ver. 12. _And forgive us our debts, &c._] Loose us (saith the
original) and let us go free, (αφες): for unpardoned sinners are
in the bond of iniq...
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_And forgive us our debts_, &c. The suffering of punishment for
transgressing God's laws is a debt which sinners owe to the divine
justice; and “when we ask God, in prayer, to _forgive our debts_, we...
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DEBTS; sins.
DEBTORS; those who have trepassed against us....
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One of the greatest spiritual and temporal needs: AND FORGIVE US OUR
DEBTS, AS WE FORGIVE OUR DEBTORS.
We daily contract an enormous, an unbelievable amount of debts before
God. And the more we desire...
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Verse 1 warns against practicing righteousness (margin) before men to
attract their attention. This is self-righteousness, a mere show. How
can we expect the Father to reward what we do merely to impr...
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9-15 Christ saw it needful to show his disciples what must commonly
be the matter and method of their prayer. Not that we are tied up to
the use of this only, or of this always; yet, without doubt, i...
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Our Saviour here doth not teach us the order in which we should pray
for good things for ourselves, only in three petitions comprehends
whatsoever we should ask of God. For doubtless we are obliged,
a...
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1 Clement
For thus He spoke: "Be ye merciful, that ye may obtain mercy; forgive,
that it may be forgiven to you; as ye do, so shall it be done unto
you; as ye judge, so shall ye be judged; as ye are...
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Matthew 6:12 And G2532 forgive G863 (G5628) us G2254 our G2257 debts
G3783 As G2532 G5613 we...
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HOW TO PRAY - THE LORD'S PRAYER (6:9-15).
The Lord's Prayer (Matthew 6:9).
We should note in using the description ‘The Lord's Prayer' that
this is not to be seen as how the Lord Himself actually pra...
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THEIR RELIGIOUS EXERCISES ARE TO BE KNOWN ONLY TO THE FATHER AND NOT
TO MEN (6:1-18).
We will now, therefore, initially consider together the first four
passages which deal with their religious behavi...
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‘And forgive us our debts,
As we also have forgiven our debtors'.
‘Forgive us our debts.' The meaning of this petition, as Luke
specifically brings out, is that we are to pray for the forgiveness of...
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Matthew 6:5-15. SECOND EXAMPLE (_Prayer)._...
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Matthew 6:12. AND FORGIVE US OUR DEBTS, etc. (_fifth petition). ‘_
Debts,' undoubtedly, moral obligations unfulfilled, _i.e., sins._ See
Matthew 6:14, which requires this sense.
AS WE HAVE FORGIVEN....
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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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Our Lord passes from moral to religious duties, enjoining a
‘righteousness' (Matthew 6:1), which exceeds that of the scribes and
Pharisees (‘hypocrites'), and has regard to the character of our
‘Fathe...
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OUR DEBTS
(τα οφειληματα ημων). Luke (Luke 11:4) has "sins"
(αμαρτιας). In the ancient Greek οφειλημα is common
for actual legal debts as in Romans 4:4, but here it is used of moral
and spiritual de...
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WE FORGIVE OUR DEBTORS
This is legal ground, (compare (Ephesians 4:32), which is grace.
Under law forgiveness is conditioned upon a like spirit in us; under
grace we are forgiven for Christ's sake, a...
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Matthew 6:9 , MATTHEW 6:12
I. The request. (1) We are in debt to God. We have only to listen to
the voice of conscience to admit this at once. For amongst the deepest
of all our instincts is the sense...
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Matthew 6:1. _Take heed that ye do not your alms before men, to be
seen of them: otherwise ye have no reward of your Father which is in
heaven._
The motive which leads a man to give, will form the tr...
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Matthew 6:5. _And when thou prayest, thou shalt not be as the
hypocrites are: for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and
in the corners of the streets, that they may be seen of men._
We oug...
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CONTENTS: Sermon on the Mount, continued. Formalism condemned. The new
revelation of prayer (disciples prayer). The law of riches. Cure of
anxiety.
CHARACTERS: God, Jesus.
CONCLUSION: True relationsh...
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Matthew 6:1. _Take heed that ye do not your alms before men._ It is a
dispute whether alms or righteousness be the true reading. The old
copies had righteousness. Chrysostom in one place has righteous...
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FORGIVE US THE WRONGS. This asks God to forgive us the wrongs that we
have done in exactly the same way which we forgive others! That is, we
ask God to do to us just what we have done to others....
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_Forgive us our debts._
FORGIVE US OUR DEBTS
There is a twofold debt which man oweth to God.
I. A debt of duty, worship, and obedience;
II. A debt of punishment. (_Thomas Manton, D. D._)
OUR DEBT...
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MATTHEW—NOTE ON MATTHEW 6:12 FORGIVE US OUR DEBTS (the fifth
petition) does not mean that believers need to ask daily for
justification, since believers are right with God from the moment of
initial s...
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MATTHEW—NOTE ON MATTHEW 6:9 Jesus gives his disciples an example to
follow when praying. The prayer consists of an invocation and six
petitions.
⇐...
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MATTHEW—NOTE ON MATTHEW 6:5 Prayer was also expected of God’s
people. Public prayer was a common practice in NT times.
⇐...
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JESUS TEACHES ON PRAYER MATTHEW 6:9-13; LUKE 11:2-4; MATTHEW 6:9 After
this manner therefore pray ye: Our Father which art in heaven,
Hallowed be thy name. L
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CHAPTER 6
_Take heed_. &c. Instead of _alms_, some Greek Codices read
_δικαιοσύνην, righteousness_, or _justice._ This is the
reading of the Syriac and the Latin Vulgate. The Complutensian, Royal,
and...
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_CRITICAL NOTES_
Matthew 6:1. ALMS.—_Righteousness_ (R.V.) is probably correct and
shows the connection between this chapter and the preceding, better
than “alms.” In ch. Matthew 5:20, the disciples a...
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EXPOSITION
MATTHEW 6:1
_The_ _relation of our Lord and his disciples to the religion of the
day _(_continued_);_ vide _Matthew 5:17, note. (_b_) Our Lord turns
from cases which could be directly dedu...
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Tonight let's take a look at Matthew, chapter six. We are in the
section of the book of Matthew that is commonly called the Sermon on
the Mount because it was delivered to the disciples of Jesus on th...
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1 John 1:7; 1 Kings 8:30; 1 Kings 8:34; 1 Kings 8:39; 1 Kings 8:50;...
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Debts [ο φ ε ι λ η μ α τ α]. So rightly, A. V., and Rev.
(compare Luke 11:4). Sin is pictured as a debt, and the sinner as a
debtor (compare Matthew 18:28; Matthew 18:30). Accordingly the word
represe...
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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 forgive us our debts, as we also forgive our debtors — Give us,
O Lord, redemption in thy blood, even the forgiveness of sins: as thou
enablest us freely and fully to forgive every man, so do thou...