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Matthew 18:18
Verily I say unto you, Whatsoever ye shall bind on earth shall be bound in heaven, and whatsoever ye shall loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven.
Verily I say unto you, Whatsoever ye shall bind on earth shall be bound in heaven, and whatsoever ye shall loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven.
Verse Matthew 18:18. _WHATSOEVER YE SHALL BIND_, c.] Whatever determinations ye make, in conformity to these directions for your conduct to an offending brother, will be accounted just, and ratified...
WHATSOEVER YE SHALL BIND ... - See the notes at Matthew 16:19. These words were spoken to the apostles. Jesus had before addressed the same words to Peter, Matthew 16:19. He employs them here to signi...
6. INSTRUCTIONS TO HIS DISCIPLES. CONCERNING FORGIVENESS. CHAPTER 18 1. Concerning the Little Ones and Offences. (Matthew 18:1 .) 2. The Son of Man to Save What is Lost. (Matthew 18:11 .) 3. The Chu...
A CONVERSATION WITH THE TWELVE. For Matthew 18:1, the question of precedence, _cf._ Mark 9:33 *, also Matthew 20:26 f., Mark 10:43 f.,...
"If your brother sins against you, go, and try to convince him of his error between you and him alone. If he listens to you, you have gained your brother. If he will not listen to you, take with you o...
PERSONAL RELATIONSHIPS (Matthew 18:1-35) Matthew 18:1-35 is a most important chapter for Christian Ethics, because it deals with those qualities which should characterize the personal relationships o...
WHATSOEVER, &C. See Matthew 16:19 ON. upon. Greek. _epi_. EARTH. the earth. Greek. _ge._ App-129. HEAVEN. the heaven. See notes on Matthew 6:9; Matthew 6:10....
Forgiveness of Sins. Luke 17:3-4 God's forgiveness of sinners suggests the duty of forgiveness among men....
Taking up the word "Church," Jesus passes from its present meaning the ruling body in the synagogue to its meaning in the future. The ruling body is the Christian Church. _Whatsoever ye shall bind on...
ὍΣΑ ἘᾺΝ ΔΉΣΗΤΕ Κ.Τ.Λ. What was spoken to Peter alone is now spoken to all the disciples, representing the Church. ‘Whatsoever you as a Church declare binding or declare not binding, that decision shal...
FORGIVENESS OF SINS Luke 17:3-4 God’s forgiveness of sinners suggests the duty of forgiveness among men....
VER 18. "VERILY I SAY UNTO YOU, WHATSOEVER YE SHALL BIND ON EARTH SHALL BE BOUND IN HEAVEN: AND WHATSOEVER YE SHALL LOOSE ON EARTH SHALL BE LOOSED IN HEAVEN. 19. AGAIN I SAY UNTO YOU, THAT IF TWO OF Y...
_THE HEART OF A CHRISTIAN IS CHARACTERIZED BY A DESIRE FOR FELLOWSHIP MATTHEW 18:15-20:_ God provided a way for brethren to settle their differences. God's way always works. If your brothers wrongs yo...
ΟΣΑ ΈΆΝ (G3745; G1437) что бы ни. ΔΉΣΗΤΕ _aor. conj. act. от_ ΔΈΩ (G1210) связывать. _Conj._ в обороте indef. rel. ΕΣΤΑΙ _fut. ind. act. от_ ΕΙΜΊ (G1510) быть, ΔΕΔΕΜΈΝΑ _perf. pass._part. от ΔΈΩ. П...
WHATSOEVER YE SHALL BIND ON EARTH, &C.— Our Saviour here confers on his _disciples in general_ the power of _binding_ and _loosing,_ which he had formerly conferred on _Peter_ singly: but the present...
C. ENLIST THE STRENGTH OF THE CONGREGATION (18:17-20) Matthew 18:17 AND IF HE REFUSE TO HEAR THEM, he has already failed a test that determines just how sincerely determined he is to remain with Chris...
Section 46 JESUS TRAINS THE TWELVE IN PERSONAL RELATIONS (Parallels: Mark 9:33-50; Luke 9:46-50) TEXT: 18:1-35 A. Humility and True Greatness 1 In that hour came the disciples unto Jesus, saying, Wh...
Verily I say unto you, Whatsoever ye shall bind on earth shall be bound in heaven: and whatsoever ye shall loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven. VERILY I SAY UNTO YOU, WHATSOEVER YE SHALL BIND...
16 See Deu_19:15; Joh_8:17; 2Co_3:1. 18 See Mat_16:19. 19 The Lord continues in the same vein. If we should attempt to apply these privileges and promises now it would only bring reproach on His name...
OFFENDING THE LITTLE ONES. THE UNMERCIFUL SERVANT 1-14. Ambition reproved, and humility taught by the example of a little child (Mark 9:33; Luke 9:46)....
TREATMENT OF AN ERRING BROTHER (peculiar to St. Matthew). The connexion with what precedes is as follows: 'Despise not one of the “little ones” (Matthew 18:10); if, however, one “offends against thee,...
BIND.. LOOSE] see on Matthew 16:19. Here the binding and loosing refer specially to judicial decisions, which Jesus says will be ratified in heaven....
MATTHEW’S GOOD NEWS MATTHEW’S *GOSPEL _HILDA BRIGHT_ CHAPTER 18 Chapter 18 is the fourth section of what Jesus taught. It ends in the same way as the other sections ‘Now when Jesus had finished...
WHATSOEVER YE SHALL BIND ON EARTH. — (See Note on Matthew 16:19.) The promise before made to Peter is now extended not only to the other Apostles, but to the whole society of which they were the repre...
enewed promise of power to bind and loose, this time not to Peter alone, as in Matthew 16:19, but to all the Twelve, not _qua_ apostles, with ecclesiastical authority, but _qua_ disciples, with the et...
SAVING THE STRAYING Matthew 18:10-20 How tenderly the Master speaks of the children! We must turn back to become like them, Matthew 18:3. To cause them to stumble is to incur terrible penalties, Mat...
What a sad state of heart prompted this question! How absolutely opposed to the whole genius of the Master's teaching and example! He replied by an act, and a statement growing out of that act. The ch...
Whatsoever you shall bind, &c. The power of binding and loosing, which in a more eminent manner was promised to St. Peter, is here promised to the other apostles and their successors, bishops and prie...
CHURCH DISCIPLINE Matthew 18:15-20. _“If thy brother may sin, go, convict him, between thee and him alone.”_ Many a time you can win him by thus going privately and quietly, with the loving overtures...
"Moreover if thy brother shall trespass against thee, go and tell him his fault between thee and him alone: if he shall hear thee, thou hast gained thy brother. (16) But if he will not hear thee, then...
Chapter 8, which opens the portion that comes before us tonight, is a striking illustration as well as proof of the method which God has been pleased to employ in giving us the apostle Matthew's accou...
18._What things soever you shall bind. _He now repeats the same words which he had formerly used, (Matthew 16:19,) but in a different sense; for there he intended to maintain their authority in doctri...
In chapter 18 the great principles proper to the new order of things are made known to the disciples. Let us search a little into these sweet and precious instructions of the Lord. They may be looked...
VERILY I SAY UNTO YOU,.... To them all, what he had said before to Peter; See Gill "Mt 16:19": what is said here, refers to things and not persons, as there also....
Verily I say unto you, Whatsoever ye shall bind on earth shall be bound in heaven: and whatsoever ye shall loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven. Ver. 18. _Whatsoever ye shall bind_] Let no man de...
_Whatsoever ye shall bind on earth_ By excommunication, pronounced in the Spirit and power of Christ; _whatsoever ye shall loose_ By absolution from that sentence. See note on chap. Matthew 16:19. In...
YE SHALL BIND-LOOSE; that is, the disciples who constitute the church spoken of in the preceding verse. This, which had been before said to Peter, chap Matthew 16:19, is now said to the disciples gene...
Though the Lord Jesus has been seen to forego His own rights, He who is by right infinitely great, the disciples show the opposite attitude in desiring some rights above those of others in the kingdom...
15-20 If a professed Christian is wronged by another, he ought not to complain of it to others, as is often done merely upon report, but to go to the offender privately, state the matter kindly, and...
We met with this sentence, MATTHEW 16:19, where we observed that by binding and loosing was signified (according to the usage of the Jews of those times) declaring of propositions true or false, or ju...
Constitutions of the Holy Apostles Book II For to you, O bishops, it is said: "Whatsoever ye shall bind on earth shall be bound in heaven; and whatsoever ye shall loose on earth shall be loosed in he...
Matthew 18:18 Assuredly G281 say G3004 (G5719) you G5213 whatever G3745 G1437 bind G1210 (G5661) on...
“Truly I say to you, whatever things you shall bind on earth shall have been bound in heaven, and whatever things you shall loose on earth shall have been loosed in heaven.” But the congregation must...
THE PRACTICAL APPLICATION OF THIS LOVE AND HUMILITY IN DEALINGS WITH THE NEW CONGREGATION OF GOD'S PEOPLE (18:15-20). Having expressed the concern that His true disciples must have to walk as humbly a...
Matthew 18:18. WHAT THINGS SOEVER YE SHALL BIND, etc. What was said to Peter (chap. Matthew 16:19) is here addressed to the Twelve, with the solemn introduction: ‘Verily I say unto you.' A general app...
Matthew 18:1-14 forbade offences _against_ the humble. This section teaches how the humble should deal with offences: (1.) as regards the Christian assembly (Matthew 18:15-20); (2.) as regards his own...
SHALL BE BOUND IN HEAVEN (εστα δεδεμενα εν ουρανω). Future passive periphrastic perfect indicative as in "shall be loosed" (εστα λελυμενα). In Matthew 16:19 this same unusual form occurs. The bindi...
Matthew 18:1. _At the same time came the disciples unto Jesus, saying, Who is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven?_ The question we have sometimes heard asked in other forms, «Which is the highest...
CONTENTS: Sermon on the child text. Discipline in the church. Unity in prayer. Law of forgiveness. CHARACTERS: God, Jesus, Peter. CONCLUSION: Those are truly great who are truly humble and good, and...
Matthew 18:1. _Who is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven?_ The comparative μειζων _greater,_ is put here for the superlative. By the kingdom of heaven, they meant the worldly glory of the church in...
AND SO I TELL ALL OF YOU. What Jesus had said to Peter (Matthew 16:19), he now tells to them all. He said this again (John 20:23). Since the apostles were guided by the Holy Spirit (John 14:26), the t...
_Moreover if thy brother shall trespass against thee._ HOW TO MEET OFFENCES Observe the method Christ has laid down- I. The trespass supposed, whether accidental or designed. Whether it regards rep...
MATTHEW—NOTE ON MATTHEW 18:1 The Community of the Messiah Revealed. This is the fourth of Jesus’ five major teachings in Matthew’s Gospel (see Introduction: Key Themes). Jesus instructs his disciples...
MATTHEW—NOTE ON MATTHEW 18:18 WHATEVER YOU BIND ON EARTH SHALL BE BOUND IN HEAVEN. All disciples are given Peter’s authority to declare the terms under which God either forgives or refuses to forgive...
1-35 CHAPTER 18 _At that time came_, &c. There seems to be a discrepancy here with Mark 9:31, where it is said that the disciples disputed about this matter in the way, and that afterwards, when they...
_CRITICAL NOTES_ Matthew 18:15. MOREOVER, etc.—Better, _and if thy brother shall sin_. A twofold train of thought is traceable in what follows. 1. The presence of “offences” implies sin, and the ques...
EXPOSITION MATTHEW 18:1 _Discourse concerning the greatest in the kingdom of heaven, and the mutual duties of Christians_._ _(Mark 9:33; Luke 9:46-42.)...
Now at the same time there came disciples to Jesus, saying, Who is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven? (Matthew 18:1) Oh, boy how they longed for this. You're talking about motivation, and the disc...
1 Corinthians 5:4; 1 Corinthians 5:5; 2 Corinthians 2:10; Acts 15:23;...
Whatsoever ye shall bind on earth — By excommunication, pronounced in the spirit and power of Christ. Whatsoever ye shall loose — By absolution from that sentence. In the primitive Church, absolution...
That is, whomsoever the officers of my church shall justly excommunicate upon earth, shall, without repentance be shut out of heaven; and whosoever upon their true repentance, shall be absolved on ear...