Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Matthew 5:27
Thou shalt not commit adultery — And this, as well as the sixth commandment, the scribes and Pharisees interpreted barely of the outward act. Exodus 20:14.
Thou shalt not commit adultery — And this, as well as the sixth commandment, the scribes and Pharisees interpreted barely of the outward act. Exodus 20:14.
Verse Matthew 5:27. _YE HAVE HEARD THAT IT WAS SAID BY THEM OF OLD_] By _the ancients_, τοις αρχαιοις, is omitted by nearly a _hundred_ MSS., and some of them of the very greatest antiquity and autho...
YE HAVE HEARD THAT IT WAS SAID BY THEM OF OLD TIME, THOU SHALT NOT COMMIT ADULTERY - See the notes at Matthew 5:21. Our Saviour in these verses explains the seventh commandment. It is probable that th...
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...
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...
You have heard that it has been said: You must not commit adultery. But I say to you that every one who looks at a woman in such a way as to waken within himself forbidden desires for her has already...
THE LAW OF ADULTERY. THOU, &C. Quoted from Exodus 20:14.Deuteronomy 5:18. App-117....
The reading of τοῖς� after ἐρρέθη is due to the tendency to introduce uniformity of structure; other instances of the same kind in this chapter are ὅς ἂν� for πᾶς ὁ�. Matthew 5:32, βληθῇ εἰς γέενναν f...
(β) Adultery, 27–32...
VER 27. "YE HAVE HEARD THAT IT WAS SAID BY THEM OF OLD TIME, 'THOU SHALT NOT COMMIT ADULTERY:' 28. BUT I SAY UNTO YOU, THAT WHOSOEVER LOOKETH ON A WOMAN TO LUST AFTER HER HATH COMMITTED ADULTERY WITH...
_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...
ΉΚΟΎΣΑΤΕ _aor. ind. act., см._ Matthew 5:21. ΈΡΡΈΘΗ _aor. ind. pass._, _см._ Matthew 5:21. ΜΟΙΧΕΎΣΕΙΣ _fut. ind. act. от_ ΜΟΙΧΕΎΩ (G3431) совершать прелюбодеяние. _Fut._ выражает нравственный императ...
DISCOURSE: 1303 OUR LORD’S EXPOSITION OF THE SEVENTH COMMANDMENT Matthew 5:27. _Ye have heard that it was said by_ [to] _them of old time, Thou shalt not commit adultery: but I say unto you, that who...
YE HAVE HEARD, &C.— What has been hitherto said refers to _meekness;_ what now follows, to _purity of heart._ Dr. Lightfoot, to explain the opinion of the Jewish doctors, respecting the duty of this s...
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...
Ye have heard that it was said by them of old time, Thou shalt not commit adultery: YE HAVE HEARD THAT IT WAS SAID. The words [ tois (G3588) archaiois (G744)] "by," or "to them of old time," in th...
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...
BY THEM OF OLD TIME] RV omits: see Exodus 20:14. 29-30. This saying is found in Mark 9:43, but in a less natural connexion. It is repeated Matthew 18:8. Its meaning is that those who are seriously tem...
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....
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...
BY THEM OF OLD TIME. — Omitted in the best MSS. If retained, translate as before, _to them of old time._ It was probably inserted for the sake of conformity with Matthew 5:21. Here the words are simpl...
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...
_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...
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...
(7) Ye have heard that it was said by them of old time, Thou shalt not commit adultery: (7) He is taken for an adulterer before God, whoever he is, that covets a woman: and therefore we must keep our...
Jesus Christ here perfects the old law, which makes no mention of the acts of the mind and will. (Menochius)...
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...
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...
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 5:27._Thou shalt not commit adultery. _Christ proceeds with his subject, and shows, that the law of God not only has authority over the life, in a political view, to form the outward manners,...
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...
YE HAVE HEARD THAT IT WAS SAID,.... These forms of speech, as well as what follows, BY THEM OF OLD TIME, have been explained, in ver. 21. The law here mentioned, THOU SHALT NOT COMMIT ADULTERY, is r...
Ye have heard that it was said by them of old time, Thou shalt not commit adultery: Ver. 27. _Ye have heard that it was said by them of old, Thou shalt not commit adultery_] This they corruptly restr...
_Ye have heard_, &c. Jesus now proceeds in his sermon to the seventh commandment, the true interpretation of which he gives us. _Thou shalt not commit adultery_ This, as well as the sixth commandment,...
A lesson from the Sixth Commandment:...
YE HAVE HEARD THAT IT WAS SAID BY THEM OF OLD TIME, THOU SHALT NOT COMMIT ADULTERY....
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 5:28"....
Irenaeus Against Heresies Book IV But I say unto you, That every one who hath looked upon a woman to lust after her, hath committed adultery with her already in his heart."[152] Clement of Alexandri...
Matthew 5:27 heard G191 (G5656) that G3754 said G4483 (G5681) old G744 shall G3431 not G3756 adultery...
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:...
“You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall not commit adultery.' ” Jesus commences by citing the seventh commandment, and the first thing that will be noted is that He makes no reference to ‘those o...
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...
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...
Matthew 5:27. The seventh commandment (Exodus 20:14) is now cited, with an implied reference to the interpretation given by the scribes, namely, that adultery alone was forbidden....
THOU SHALT NOT COMMIT ADULTERY (ου μοιχευσεις). These quotations (verses Matthew 5:21; Matthew 5:27; Matthew 5:33) from the Decalogue (Matthew 5:2...
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 5:1. _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...
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...
DO NOT COMMIT ADULTERY. One of the Ten Commandments....
_In his heart._ THE HEART OR WILL IS, IN MAN, THE SEAT OF VIRTUE OR VICE. I. Actions must be our invariable touchstone of truth whilst we sojourn in this state of imperfect knowledge and comparative...
MATTHEW—NOTE ON MATTHEW 5:1 The Authoritative Message of the Messiah: Kingdom Life for His Disciples. This is the first of five major teaching sections in Matthew 1:1 (chs....
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 22:22; Deuteronomy 5:18; Exodus 20:14; Leviticus 20:10;...
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...
Our Savior next proceeds to explain the seventh commandment, which forbids adultery; by which the Pharisees understood only the gross act of uncleanness, and carnal lying with. woman. But, says our Sa...