Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Matthew 5:37
Let your conversation be yea, yea; nay, nay — That is, in your common discourse, barely affirm or deny.
Let your conversation be yea, yea; nay, nay — That is, in your common discourse, barely affirm or deny.
Verse 37. _LET YOUR COMMUNICATION BE, YEA, YEA; NAY, NAY_] That is, a positive _affirmation_, or _negation_, according to your knowledge of the matter concerning which you are called to testify. Do no...
BUT LET YOUR COMMUNICATION - Your word; what you say. BE, YEA - Yes. This does not mean that we should always use the word “yea,” for it might as well have been translated “yes”; but it means that we...
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You have heard that it was said by the people of the old days: You shall not take an oath falsely, but you shall pay your oath in full to the Lord. But I say to you: Do not swear at all, neither by he...
COMMUNICATION. word Greek. _logos._ Omit "be". Yea, yea. Yes, [be] yes. Figure of speech _Epizeuxis._ App-6. NAY, NAY. Nay, [be] nay. WHATSOEVER. what. COMETH. is. OF. out of. Greek. _ek._ App-104...
(γ) Oaths, 33–37...
ἘΚ ΤΟΥ͂ ΠΟΝΗΡΟΥ͂. (1) ‘of evil’, (2) or perhaps better ‘from the evil one.’...
Ver 33. "Again, ye have heard that it hath been said by them of old time, 'Thou shalt not forswear thyself, but shalt perform unto the Lord thine oaths:' 34. But I say unto you, Swear not at all; neit...
_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...
ΈΣΤΩ _praes. imper. act. 3 pers. sing. от_ ΕΙΜΊ (G1510) быть....
DISCOURSE: 1306 SWEARING FORBIDDEN Matthew 5:33. Again, ye have heard that it hath been said by them of old time, Thou shalt not forswear thyself, but shalt perform unto the Lord thine oaths: but I sa...
AGAIN, YE HAVE HEARD, &C.— As to oaths, the doctors affirmed, that they were obligatory, according to the nature of the things by which a man swears. See ch. Matthew 23:16. Hence they allowed the use...
C. THE WISE AND GODLY MAN IN RELATION TO THE LAW 4. HIS ATTITUDE TOWARD TRUTH. TEXT: 5:33- 37 33. Again, ye have heard that it was said to them of old time, Thou shalt not forswear thyself, but shalt...
But let your communication be, Yea, yea; Nay, nay: for whatsoever is more than these cometh of evil. BUT LET YOUR COMMUNICATION - `your word' [ logos (G3056)], in ordinary conversation, BE, YEA Y...
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...
5:37 evil. (d-18) Or 'the evil one.'...
REVISION OF THE LAW OF OATHS. The prohibition 'Swear not at all' is to be taken in its widest sense, and not simply as forbidding the common oaths of conversation. Christ looks forward to a time when...
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LET YOUR COMMUNICATION. — One of the few instances in which our translators seem to have preferred a somewhat pedantic Latin word for the more literal and homely English _speech._ (Comp. Luke 24:17.)...
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_Fourth illustration: concerning oaths_. A new theme, therefore formally introduced as in Matthew 5:21. πάλιν points to a new _series_ of illustrations (Weiss, Mt.-Evan., p. 165). The first series is...
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...
But let your communication be, (t) Yea, yea; Nay, nay: for whatsoever is more than these cometh of (u) evil. (t) Whatever you affirm, affirm it alone, and whatever you deny, deny it alone without any...
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...
What a beautiful train of thoughts arise from those words of Jesus. Not only the prohibition of the Load to what is so highly unsuitable and offensive in oaths and the like, but the injunction to a si...
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...
_CHRISTIAN TRUTHFULNESS_ ‘Let your communication be Yea, yea.’ Matthew 5:37 The main object of our Divine Lord here is to impress upon us the supreme and critical importance of Candour, Sincerity,...
37._But your speech shall be, Yes, yes; No, no _Christ now prescribes, in the second place, a remedy; which is, that men act towards each other sincerely and honestly: for then simplicity of speech wi...
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...
BUT LET YOUR COMMUNICATION BE YEA, YEA,.... That is, let your speech, in your common conversation, and daily business of life, when ye answer to anything in the affirmative, be "yea"; and when ye answ...
But let your communication be, Yea, yea; Nay, nay: for whatsoever is more than these cometh of evil. Ver. 37. _But let your communication be, Yea, yea; Nay, nay_] That is, as St Basil interpreteth it...
_Ye have heard that it hath been said by them of old time_ Or rather, _was said to the ancients, Thou shalt not forswear thyself_, &c. See the margin. The Jewish doctors affirmed, that oaths were obli...
COMMUNICATION; conversation and discourse. YEA-NAY; simple declarations, without profaneness of any kind....
An illustration from the Second Commandment:...
BUT LET YOUR COMMUNICATION BE, YEA, YEA; NAY, NAY; FOR WHATSOEVER IS MORE THAN THESE COMETH OF EVIL. Jesus introduces the subject as before, referring to the customary reading of the Law and the accom...
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...
33-37 There is no reason to consider that solemn oaths in a court of justice, or on other proper occasions, are wrong, provided they are taken with due reverence. But all oaths taken without necessit...
St. James saith much the same, {JAMES 5:12}. Let your ordinary discourse in the world be mere affirmations or denials of things in terms or phrases of the same import with _ yea_ and _ nay, _ though y...
Tertullian The Prescription Against Heretics Moreover, they remembered the words): "Let your communication be yea, yea; nay, nay; for whatsoever is more than this cometh of evil; "[289] Tertullian O...
Matthew 5:37 But G1161 your G5216 Yes G3483 be G3056 G2077 (G5749) Yes G3483 No G3756 No...
“But let your speech be, Yes, yes; No, no, And whatever is more than these is of the evil one.” So they are to restrict their replies to specific assertions. They are to say, ‘yes, yes' or ‘no, no'....
3). THE DISCIPLES' APPROACH TO OATH-TAKING AND RELIABILITY (5:33-37). In Jesus' day the taking of oaths was popular and often somewhat hypocritical. Going by what was written later they were divided i...
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...
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...
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...
Matthew 5:37. BUT LET YOUR SPEECH BE, YEA, YEA; NAY, NAY. Not only foolish oaths, like those cited, are forbidden, but also all unnecessary appealing to God. Even judicial appeals to God should not be...
Matthew 5:33 I. Our Lord does not here forbid a solemn oath, such as may be required, for example, in a court of justice. The law clearly allowed such an oath for confirmation. When the high priest ad...
Matthew 5:37 I. A very few examples will show us that, as in the case of submission to injury, so in that of abstinence from swearing, our Lord laid down a principle and not a positive precept, and ha...
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...
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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...
JUST SAY YES OR NO. Let your "yes" or "no" in word be the same in action. Our present sin of profanity grew out of the habit of swearing vows. Note Peter's sin in Matthew 26:74....
MATTHEW—NOTE ON MATTHEW 5:33 An OATH involved using God’s name, or substitutes for it, to guarantee the truth of one’s statements (see Numbers 30:2). Jesus’ disciples
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...
2 Corinthians 1:17; Colossians 3:9; Colossians 4:6; Ephesians 4:25;...
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...
Did Jesus condemn all oath taking, even in court? (See comments on James 5:12.)...
Here our Lord prescribes. proper mean and remedy for shunning the occasion and danger of rash swearing; and that is, by using and accustoming ourselves in conversation to. true simplicity and constant...