That ye may be the children — That is, that ye may continue and appear such before men and angels. For he maketh his sun to rise — He gives them such blessings as they will receive at his hands. Spiritual blessings they will not receive.
Verse Matthew 5:45. _THAT YE MAY BE THE CHILDREN OF YOUR FATHER_] Instead of υιοι children, some MSS., the latter _Persic_ version, and several of the primitive fathers, read ομοιοι, that ye may be _...
THAT YE MAY BE THE CHILDREN OF YOUR FATHER - In Greek, the sons of your Father. The word “son” has a variety of significations. See the notes at Matthew 1:1. Christians are called the “sons” or “child...
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:...
LOVING ONE'S NEIGHBOUR (_cf._ Luke 6:27 f., Matthew 5:32).Thou shalt love thy neighbour (_i.e._ fellow Israelite) is the precept of the Law (Leviticus 19:18); and hate thine enemy is a Rabbinic infere...
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 shall love your neighbour, and you shall hate your enemy; but I say to you: Love your enemies, and pray for those who persecute you, so that you may become th...
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_that ye may be the children of your Father_ See note on Matthew 5:9. To act thus would be to act like God, Who blesses those who curse Him and are His enemies, by the gifts of sun and rain. This is d...
ὍΠΩΣ ΓΈΝΗΣΘΕ Κ.Τ.Λ. See note on Matthew 5:9. To act thus would be to act like God, who blesses those who curse Him and are his enemies, by the gifts of sun and rain. This is divine. Mere return of lov...
Ver 43. "Ye have heard that it hath been said, 'Thou shalt love thy neighbour, and hate thine enemy.' 44. But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate yo...
_JESUS' TEACHINGS ABOUT RETALIATION AND LOVE MATTHEW 5:38-48:_ Having the right attitude will cause us to go the second mile. (Matthew 5:38-42) Do anything and everything within your power to show the...
ΌΠΩΣ (G3704) с _conj. Aor_ . чтобы, ΓΈΝΗΣΘΕ _aor. conj. med. (dep.) от_ ΓΊΝΟΜΑΙ (G1096) становиться, быть. _Conj._ в _прид._ цели, АΝΑΤΈΛΛΕΙ _praes. ind. act. от_ ΑΝΑΤΈΛΛΩ (G393) повелевать взойти,...
DISCOURSE: 1309 LOVE TO ENEMIES ENJOINED Matthew 5:43. Ye have heard that it hath been said, Thou shalt love thy neighbour, and hate thine enemy. But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that...
THAT YE MAY BE THE CHILDREN, &C.— Our blessed Saviour enforces the doctrine of loving our enemies, so far as to do them good, from the noblest of all considerations, that it renders men like God, who...
C. THE WISE AND GODLY MAN IN RELATION TO THE LAW 6. HIS ATTITUDE TOWARD PERFECT love. (Parallel Luke 6:32-36) TEXT: 5:43-48 43. Ye have heard that it was said, Thou shalt love thy neighbor, and hate...
That ye may be the children of your Father which is in heaven: for he maketh his sun to rise on the evil and on the good, and sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust. THAT YE MAY BE THE CHILDRE...
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...
HATRED OF ENEMIES FORBIDDEN, LOVE ENJOINED (Luke 6:27). The maxim 'Thou shalt love thy neighbour' is found in Leviticus 19:18. The words 'Thou shalt hate thine enemy' are nowhere found in the Pentateu...
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...
THAT YE MAY BE. — Literally, and with far fuller meaning, _that ye may become._ We cannot become like God in power or wisdom. The attempt at that likeness to the Godhead was the cause of man’s fall, a...
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...
_Sixth and final illustration: from the Law of Love_. To an old partial form of the law Jesus opposes a new universal one....
Characteristically lofty inducements to obey the new law; likeness to God (Matthew 5:45); moral distinction among men (Matthew 5:46-47). υἱοὶ τοῦ πατρὸς ὑμῶν : in order that ye may be indeed sons of G...
BROTHERLY RELATIONSHIP Matthew 5:38-48 In mentioning the second mile, our Lord refers to a well-known Eastern custom of forwarding messages by relays of forced labor. We leave our homes on a given mo...
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...
(10) That ye may be the children of your Father which is in heaven: for he maketh his sun to rise on the evil and on the good, and sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust. (10) A double reason: th...
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...
Was there ever such a refinement of the most perfect law of the LORD as is here drawn? And where shall we look for the fulfilment of it but in the Lord JESUS himself? He indeed, and He only, observed...
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...
45._That ye may be the children of your Father who is in heaven. _When he expressly declares, that no man will be a child of God, unless he _loves those who hate him, _who shall dare to say, that we a...
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...
THAT YE MAY BE THE CHILDREN OF YOUR FATHER,.... Not that any became the children of God, by doing things in imitation of him: for as in nature no man becomes the son of another by imitating him, or by...
That ye may be the children of your Father which is in heaven: for he maketh his sun to rise on the evil and on the good, and sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust. Ver. 45. _That ye may be the...
Such behavior is in agreement with the true nature of Christians: THAT YE MAY BE THE CHILDREN OF YOUR FATHER WHICH IS IN HEAVEN; FOR HE MAKETH HIS SUN TO RISE ON THE EVIL AND ON THE GOOD, AND SENDETH...
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...
43-48 The Jewish teachers by "neighbour" understood only those who were of their own country, nation, and religion, whom they were pleased to look upon as their friends. The Lord Jesus teaches that w...
As your heavenly Father hath a common love, which he extendeth to all mankind, in supplying their necessities, with the light and warmth of the sun, and with the rain; as well as a special love and fa...
Epistle of Ignatius to the Philadelphians Wherefore "He makes His sun to rise upon the evil and on the good, and sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust; "[22] First Apology of Justin But seek y...
Matthew 5:45 that G3704 be G1096 (G5638) sons G5207 your G5216 Father G3962 in G3588 G1722 heaven...
“But I say to you, love your enemies, And pray for those who persecute you, That you may be sons of your Father who is in heaven, For he makes his sun to rise on the evil and the good, And sends r...
THE DISCIPLES ARE TO LOVE EVEN THEIR ENEMIES AND ARE TO SEEK TO BE PERFECT EVEN AS THEIR FATHER IN HEAVEN IS PERFECT (5:43-48). Jesus has been slowly building up to this final revelation of the love...
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 5:45. THAT YE MAY BE _. _ Such action proves, not makes, the sonship. So doing we show our resemblance to God our Father (a relation springing from our relation to Christ) who MAKETH HIS SUN,...
Matthew 5:43 I. Our Lord does not say here that all men are to be equally dear to us, or equally esteemed by us. He does not substitute a vague principle of universal philanthropy in the room of those...
Matthew 5:43. _Ye have heard that it hath been said, Thou shalt love thy neighbor, and hate thine enemy._ In this case a command of Scripture had a human antithesis fitted on to it by depraved minds...
Matthew 5:41. _And whosoever shall compel thee to go a mile, go with him twain._ If you can do him any service, do it cheerfully, do it readily. Do what he wants of you. Matthew 5:42. _Give to him t...
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,...
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...
44-45. BUT NOW I TELL YOU. Christ presents God's Truth. Love is the basic law of Christ's Kingdom. See the Parable of the Good Samaritan (Luke 10:30-37). The kind of love which Jesus commands is a del...
MATTHEW—NOTE ON MATTHEW 5:45 SONS. Those who obey God’s will through belief in Jesus (compare Matthew 12:48). (Regarding “sons,” see esv
MATTHEW—NOTE ON MATTHEW 5:21 YOU HAVE HEARD THAT IT WAS SAID (vv. Matthew 5:21, Matt
JESUS TEACHES ABOUT LOVING ENEMIES MATTHEW 5:43-48; LUKE 6:27-36; MATTHEW 5:43 Ye have heard that it hath been said, Thou shalt love thy neighbour, and hate thine enemy....
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...
1 John 3:9; Acts 14:17; Ephesians 5:1; Job 25:3; John 13:35;...
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...
To encourage us to the foregoing duty of loving our enemies, our Saviour propounds the example of God himself to our imitation. THAT YOU MAY BE THE CHILDREN OF YOUR FATHER; that is, that you may be kn...