Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Matthew 6:27
And which of you — If you are ever so careful, can even add a moment to your own life thereby? This seems to be far the most easy and natural sense of the words.
And which of you — If you are ever so careful, can even add a moment to your own life thereby? This seems to be far the most easy and natural sense of the words.
Verse Matthew 6:27. _WHICH OF YOU BY TAKING THOUGHT CAN ADD ONE CUBIT UNTO_ _HIS STATURE?_] The _third_ reason against these carking cares is the unprofitableness of human solicitude, unless God vouc...
WHICH OF YOU, BY TAKING THOUGHT - The third argument is taken from their extreme weakness and helplessness. With all your care you cannot increase your stature a single cubit. God has ordered your hei...
CHAPTER 6 _ 1. The Better Righteousness.(Matthew 6:1 .) 2. Kept in the World; Single-eyed; Trusting God.(Matthew 6:19 .)_ Our Lord said: “For I say unto you, that unless your righteousness surpass th...
TRUE RIGHTEOUSNESS IN RELATION TO WEALTH. The Sermon here passes from the shortcomings of the Scribes and Pharisees. There are scattered parallels to this section in Lk. MATTHEW 6:19. TREASURE (Luke...
WHICH OF YOU CAN ADD ONE CUBIT, &C. There can hardly be. doubt that this ought to be rendered, "add one cubit to his age," or period of life. We speak of life being. span, which is also. measure of le...
I tell you, therefore, do not worry about your life, about what you are to eat, or what you are to drink; and do not worry about your body, about what you are to wear. Is not your life more than food,...
THE REWARD MOTIVE IN THE CHRISTIAN LIFE (Matthew 6:1-18) When we study the opening verses of Matthew 6:1-34, we are immediately confronted with one most important question-- What is the place of the...
OF. from among. Greek. _ek._ ADD. prolong. CUBIT. span. Compare Luke 12:26. Put by Figure of speech _Metonymy_ (of Subject), App-6, for. very small thing, as in Psalms 39:5, where the Greek _pechus_...
The parallel passage (Luke 12:22-31) follows immediately the parable of the "Rich Fool....
_can add one cubit unto his stature_ As the word translated "stature" also=duration of life, the meaning may be "add a cubit to his life." Comp. Psalms 39:6 (P. B.), "Thou hast made my days as it were...
The parallel passage (Luke 12:22-31) follows immediately the parable of the Rich Fool....
ΠΡΟΣΘΕΙ͂ΝΑΙ ἘΠῚ ΤῊΝ ἩΛΙΚΊΑΝ ΑΥ̓ΤΟΥ͂ ΠΗ͂ΧΥΝ ἝΝΑ. ἡλικία, either ‘stature’ or ‘duration of life,’ so that the meaning may be ‘add a cubit to his life.’ Comp. Psalms 39:5, ‘Thou hast made my days as an h...
VER 26. "BEHOLD THE FOWLS OF THE AIR: FOR THEY SOW NOT, NEITHER DO THEY REAP, NOR GATHER INTO BARNS; YET YOUR HEAVENLY FATHER FEEDETH THEM. ARE YE NOT MUCH BETTER THAN THEY? 27. WHICH OF YOU BY TAKING...
_THE ACTIONS OF SHINNING, SERVING AND LIVING MATTHEW 6:22-34:_ God's desire is for our "whole body to be full of light." A good eye leads to a shinning life. A bad eye will lead to a life of darkness....
ΜΕΡΙΜΝΏΝ _praes. act. part. от_ ΜΕΡΙΜΝΆΩ (G3121), _см._ Matthew 6:25, выражает способ, ΠΡΟΣΘΕΊΝΑΙ _aor. inf. act. от_ ΠΡΟΣΤΊΘΗΜΙ (G4369) прибавлять, добавлять, ΗΛΙΚΊΑ (G2244) размер, возраст. Речь з...
DISCOURSE: 1324 AGAINST CAREFULNESS Matthew 6:25. Therefore I say unto you, Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink; nor yet for your body, what ye shall put on. Is no...
WHICH OF YOU, BY TAKING THOUGHT, &C.— _Who of you, by his solicitude, can prolong his life one hour?_ A version strictly literal would be, _can add any length to his age;_ for the Greek word ηλικια si...
E. THE WEALTH AND WORRIES OF THE WISE AND GODLY MAN (Matthew 6:19-34) TEXT 6:19-34 1. HIS ATTITUDE TOWARD EARTHLY TREASURES. (6:19-21) 19. Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon the earth. where m...
Which of you by taking thought can add one cubit unto his stature? WHICH OF YOU, BY TAKING THOUGHT ('ANXIOUS SOLICITUDE') CAN ADD ONE CUBIT UNTO HIS STATURE, [ heelikian (G2244)]? "Stature" can har...
14-15 Compare Mar_11:25-26. 14 Forgiveness now is according to the riches of His grace (Eph_1:7), not according to our forgiveness of others. The believers in Israel failed at this point. Their forgi...
6:27 growth (a-11) The proper sense is 'age.' It refers to relative age in man, and hence is used for 'growth,' or 'stature,' as Luke 19:3 ....
THE SERMON ON THE MOUNT (CONTINUED) 1. God's approval, not man's, to be sought in all our actions. Jesus does not say that we are to do good expecting no reward of any kind, but that we are to look fo...
THE CHRISTIAN'S FREEDOM FROM CARE AND ANXIETY (Luke 12:22). The worldly man is oppressed with care. He is always in fear that his deep-laid plans for the future will miscarry, that some object that he...
BY TAKING THOUGHT] RV 'by being anxious.' ONE CUBIT UNTO HIS STATURE] Since no one would literally desire to have a cubit (a foot and a half) added to his stature, and the word translated 'stature' ge...
MATTHEW’S GOOD NEWS MATTHEW’S *GOSPEL _HILDA BRIGHT_ CHAPTER 6 THE RIGHT WAY TO GIVE GIFTS 6:1-4 V1 ‘Be careful not to show how good you are in front of other people. Do not do your good works...
ONE CUBIT UNTO HIS STATURE. — The Greek for the last word admits either this meaning (as in Luke 19:3, and perhaps Luke 2:52) or that of age (as in John 9:21; John 9:23, and
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...
τίς δὲ, etc. The question means: care is as bootless as it is needless. But there is much difference of opinion as to the precise point of the question. Does it mean, who by care can add a cubit to hi...
_Counsels against care_. More suitable to the circumstances of the disciples than those against amassing treasures. “Why speak of treasures to us who are not even sure of the necessaries of life? It i...
_Counsels against covetousness and care_ (reproduced in Luke 12:22-34, with exception of Matthew 6:22-23, which reappear in Luke 11:34-36). An interpolation, according to Weiss. Doubtless, if the Serm...
THE CURE FOR ANXIOUS CARE Matthew 6:27-34 The Lord's tone is gentle and tender when He turns to address the poor. He says three times over, “Don't be anxious.” He never forgot that He sprang, accordi...
In the first verse the Revised Version has substituted the word "righteousness" for "alms," "a reading approved of, almost unanimously, by the great editors and critics" (Morrison). This is a statemen...
Which of you by (l) taking thought can add one cubit unto his stature? (l) He speaks of care which is joined with thought of mind, and has for the most part distrust yoked with it....
Why should the children of God fear want, when we behold the very birds of the air do not go unprovided? Moreover, what possible good can this anxiety, this diffidence procure them? Almighty God gives...
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...
Take therefore no thought for the morrow: for the morrow shall take thought for the things of itself. Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof. Who can add to the beauties, as well as doctrines of...
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...
27._Which of you by anxious care, etc ? _Here our Lord condemns another fault, which is almost always connected with immoderate anxiety about food: and that is, when a mortal man, claiming more than h...
This discourse gives the principles of the kingdom, but supposes the rejection of the King, and the position into which this would bring those that were His; who consequently must look for a heavenly...
WHICH OF YOU BY TAKING THOUGHT,.... As Christ argued before, from the unnecessariness of anxious thoughts and cares, about the provisions of life; so here, from the unprofitableness of them; it being...
Which of you by taking thought can add one cubit unto his stature? Ver. 27. _Which of you by taking thought can add one cubit unto his stature?_] And as little able are we (though we take never so mu...
_Therefore I say, Take no thought_, &c. Our Lord here proceeds to caution his disciples against worldly _cares_, these being as inconsistent with the true service of God as worldly _desires._ But the...
UNTO HIS STATURE; better, to his age; that is, by all his anxiety prolong his life a moment beyond his appointed time. For measure, as applied to time, compare Psalms 39:4....
WHICH OF YOU BY TAKING THOUGHT CAN ADD ONE CUBIT UNTO HIS STATURE? In whose case will the fact that he worries about the question continually be of any aid in increasing his height, or rather, in leng...
How unprofitable is worry:...
Verse 1 warns against practicing righteousness (margin) before men to attract their attention. This is self-righteousness, a mere show. How can we expect the Father to reward what we do merely to impr...
25-34 There is scarcely any sin against which our Lord Jesus more warns his disciples, than disquieting, distracting, distrustful cares about the things of this life. This often insnares the poor as...
How vain a thing is it to distract yourselves with anxious thoughts about your body and your life! All your thinking will not add a cubit to your stature: as your being and existence derives from God,...
Tertullian De Spectaculis In the same way, with their high shoes, he has made the tragic actors taller, because "none can add a cubit to his stature."[20] Tertullian On the Apparel of Women Book II...
Matthew 6:27 G1161 Which G1537 G5101 you G5216 worrying G3309 (G5723) can G1410 (G5736) add...
a “Therefore I say to you, do not be anxious for your life, b What you shall eat, or what you shall drink, b Nor yet for your body, what you shall put on. b Is not the life more than the food, and...
Matthew 6:27. ADD ONE CUBIT UNTO HIS AGE, prolong his life in the least ‘Age' is preferable to ‘stature' (the word has both meanings); the reference is not to the body but to the life; further, to add...
CONNECTION AND CONTENTS. The _external connection_ seems to be between ‘they have received their reward,' which closes each of the foregoing examples of false piety, and ‘lay not up for yourselves tre...
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...
UNTO HIS STATURE (επ την ηλικιαν αυτου). The word ηλικιαν is used either of height (stature) or length of life (age). Either makes good sense here, though probably "stature" suits the context best....
Matthew 6:27 It is well for men to think that there are some things which, with all their power, they cannot do. The inquiry of the text serves to rebuke our anxiety and humble our impious ambition,...
Matthew 6:25 In Matthew 6:25 we have an argument against giving place to the cares of this world, on the ground that they are unworthy of an immortal being like man; and also an illustration pointedl...
Matthew 6:5. _And when thou prayest, thou shalt not be as the hypocrites are: for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and in the corners of the streets, that they may be seen of men._ We oug...
CONTENTS: Sermon on the Mount, continued. Formalism condemned. The new revelation of prayer (disciples prayer). The law of riches. Cure of anxiety. CHARACTERS: God, Jesus. CONCLUSION: True relationsh...
Matthew 6:1. _Take heed that ye do not your alms before men._ It is a dispute whether alms or righteousness be the true reading. The old copies had righteousness. Chrysostom in one place has righteous...
WHICH ONE OF YOU. No one can prolong his life by worrying about it. Anxiety is no help at all!...
CHAPTER 6 _Take heed_. &c. Instead of _alms_, some Greek Codices read _δικαιοσύνην, righteousness_, or _justice._ This is the reading of the Syriac and the Latin Vulgate. The Complutensian, Royal, and...
_CRITICAL NOTES_ Matthew 6:25. THEREFORE.—Denoting a connection between the service of mammon and “taking thought.” TAKE NO THOUGHT.—_Be not anxious_ (R.V.). Life.—The Greek word is the same as that...
EXPOSITION MATTHEW 6:1 _The_ _relation of our Lord and his disciples to the religion of the day _(_continued_);_ vide _Matthew 5:17, note. (_b_) Our Lord turns from cases which could be directly dedu...
Tonight let's take a look at Matthew, chapter six. We are in the section of the book of Matthew that is commonly called the Sermon on the Mount because it was delivered to the disciples of Jesus on th...
1 Corinthians 12:18; Ecclesiastes 3:14; Luke 12:25; Luke 12:26;...
Four arguments are here used by our Saviour to dissuade us from the sin of anxious care; it is needless, it is fruitless, it is heathenish, it is brutish. 1. It is needless; YOUR HEAVENLY FATHER KNOW...