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Matthew 5:31
It hath been said,. Whosoever shall put away his wife, let him give her a writing of divorcement.
It hath been said,. Whosoever shall put away his wife, let him give her a writing of divorcement.
Verse 31. _WHOSOEVER SHALL PUT AWAY HIS WIFE_] The Jewish doctors gave great license in the matter of divorce. Among them, a man might divorce his wife if she displeased him even in the dressing of hi...
IT HATH BEEN SAID ... - That is, by Moses, Deuteronomy 24:1. The husband was directed, if he put his wife away, to give her a bill of divorce, that is a certificate of the fact she had been his wife,...
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:...
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...
It has been said: Let every man who divorces his wife give her a bill of divorcement. But I say to you that every one who divorces his wife for any other cause than fornication causes her to commit ad...
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...
IT HATH BEEN SAID. It was said. See Deuteronomy 24:1....
_a writing of divorcement_ See note on ch. Matthew 1:19. The greatest abuses had arisen in regard to divorce, which was permitted on very trivial grounds. One Rabbinical saying was "If any man hate hi...
(β) Adultery, 27–32...
ἈΠΟΣΤΆΣΙΟΝ. See note on ch. Matthew 1:19. The greatest abuses had arisen in regard to divorce, which was permitted on very trivial grounds. One Rabbinical saying was ‘If any man hate his wife, let him...
VER 31. "IT HATH BEEN SAID, 'WHOSOEVER SHALL PUT AWAY HIS WIFE, LET HIM GIVE HER A WRITING OF DIVORCEMENT:' 32. BUT I SAY UNTO YOU, THAT WHOSOEVER SHALL PUT AWAY HIS WIFE, SAVING FOR THE CAUSE OF FORN...
_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...
ΈΡΡΈΘΗ _aor. ind. pass. от_ ΛΈΓΩ, _см._ Matthew 5:21. ΆΠΟΛΎΣΗ _aor. conj. act. от_ ΆΠΟΛΎΩ (G630) отпускать, разводиться, ΔΌΤΩ _aor. imper. act. 3 pers. sing. от_ ΔΊΔΩΜΙ (G1325) давать. ΆΠΟΣΤΆΣΙΟΝ ...
DISCOURSE: 1305 DIVORCES FORBIDDEN Matthew 5:31. _It hath been said, Whosoever shall put away his wife, let him give her a writing of divorcement: hut I say unto you, That whosoever shall put away hi...
IT HATH BEEN SAID, &C.— The doctors of the school of _Sammai_ affirmed, that in the law concerning divorce, Deuteronomy 24:1 the words _some uncleanness_ were to be understood of _adultery_ only; wher...
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...
It hath been said, Whosoever shall put away his wife, let him give her a writing of divorcement: IT HATH BEEN SAID. This shortened form was perhaps intentional, to mark a transition from the comman...
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...
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...
IT HATH BEEN SAID. — The better MSS. give, “_But_ it was said,” as though stating an implied objection to the previous teaching. Men might think that they could avoid the sin of adultery by taking the...
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...
_Third illustration_, subordinate to the previous one, connected with the same general topic, sex relations, therefore introduced less formally with a simple ἐρρέθη δὲ. This instance is certainly dire...
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...
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...
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...
The law made a provision for the putting away a wife in cases of adultery, Deuteronomy 24:1 etc. But the LORD Jesus saith that this was permitted only in consequence of the hardness of their hearts; f...
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...
Matthew 5:31._Whosoever shall put away his wife. _As a more suitable occasion for discussing and explaining this doctrine at greater length will afterwards occur, (Matthew 19:9,) I shall now state bri...
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...
IT HATH BEEN SAID,.... It is not added here, as in the former instances, "by them of old time"; nor prefaced with these words, "ye have heard"; because the case of divorce was not any law of Moses, or...
It hath been said, Whosoever shall put away his wife, let him give her a writing of divorcement: Ver. 31. _It hath been said, Whosoever shall put away his wife, &c._] This Moses permitted, as a law m...
_Let him give her a writing of divorcement_ “The doctors of the school of Sammai affirmed, that, in the law concerning divorce, Deuteronomy 24:1, the words _some uncleanness_, were to be understood of...
WRITING OF DIVORCEMENT; a certificate that their marriage relation was dissolved by his own act. See Deuteronomy 24:1....
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...
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...
SEE POOLE ON "MATTHEW 5:32"....
Matthew 5:31 Furthermore G1161 said G4483 (G5681) G3754 Whoever G3739 G302 divorces G630 (G5661) his...
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:...
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...
Matthew 5:31. The teaching in regard to divorce belongs properly under the exposition of the seventh commandment. Loose notions about divorce indicate and increase unchastity. IT WAS SAID ALSO. ‘Hath...
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...
A WRITING OF DIVORCEMENT (αποστασιον), "a divorce certificate" (Moffatt), "a written notice of divorce" (Weymouth). The Greek is an abbreviation of βιβλιον αποστασιου (Malachi 19:7; Mark 10:4). Vulg...
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 5:31. _It hath been said, Whosoever shall put away his wife, let him give her a writing of divorcement: But I say unto to you, That whosoever shall put away his wife, saving for the cause of f...
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...
ANYONE WHO DIVORCES HIS WIFE. The laws of divorce were very lax among the Jews. Moses had given a law on it (Deuteronomy 24:1-4), but they believed no cause was really necessary....
MATTHEW—NOTE ON MATTHEW 5:31 This passage reflects the fact that divorce and remarriage were widely practiced in the first century. A CERTIFICATE OF DIVORCE gave a woman the right to remarry. BUT I SA...
MATTHEW—NOTE ON MATTHEW 5:21 YOU HAVE HEARD THAT IT WAS SAID (vv. Matthew 5:21, Matt
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...
Deuteronomy 24:1; Jeremiah 3:1; Mark 10:2; Matthew 19:3; Matthew 19:7
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...
Let him give her a writing of divorce — Which the scribes and Pharisees allowed men to do on any trifling occasion. Deuteronomy 24:1; Matthew 19:7; Mark 10:2;...
Our blessed Saviour still proceeds in vindicating and clearing the seventh commandment from the corrupt glosses of the Pharisees. Almighty God had tolerated the Jews, in case of uncleanness, to put aw...