ἐπιζητοῦσιν. Either (1) ‘seek with eagerness’; ἐπὶ having the force of ‘on,’ ‘further,’ so earnestly. See Vaughan on Romans 11:7. Or (2) ‘make special objects of pursuit,’ from the sense of direction or aim in ἐπί. Cp. ἐπικωμωδεῖν, ‘to select for caricature.’ Riddell, Plato, Apol. Socr. 31 D. With the general thought of the passage cp. Romans 14:17, οὐ γάρ ἐστιν ἡ βασιλεία τοῦ Θεοῦ βρῶσις καὶ πόσις�.
Verse 32. _FOR AFTER ALL THESE THINGS DO THE GENTILES SEEK_] The _fifth_ reason against solicitude about the future is-that to concern ourselves about these wants with anxiety, as if there was no suc...
FOR AFTER ALL THESE THINGS DO THE GENTILES SEEK - That is, those destitute of the true doctrines of religion, and unacquainted with proper dependence on Divine Providence, make it their chief anxiety...
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...
FOR AFTER ALL THESE THINGS DO THE GENTILES SEEK. This worldliness, anxiety and distrust might do in heathen who have no knowledge of. heavenly Father, and it is not surprising that "after these thing...
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...
GENTILES. nations....
_the Gentiles seek_ Seek with eagerness. A compound verb. The simple verb is used below in the next verse. For the aims of the heathen world read Juvenal _Sat._x., or Johnson's imitation of it "The Va...
The parallel passage (Luke 12:22-31) follows immediately the parable of the "Rich Fool....
VER 31. "THEREFORE TAKE NO THOUGHT, SAYING, WHAT SHALL WE EAT? OR, WHAT SHALL WE DRINK? OR, WHEREWITHAL SHALL WE BE CLOTHED? 32. (FOR AFTER ALL THESE THINGS DO THE GENTILES SEEK:) FOR YOUR HEAVENLY FA...
_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....
ΈΘΝΗ _pl. от_ ΈΘΝΟΣ (G1484) народ, язычник. Неевреи, язычники — это обманутые, которые, поскольку не знают Бога, не верят в Него (DA). ΈΠΙΖΗΤΟΎΣΙΝ _praes. ind. act._ ΟΤΤΙΧΠΙΖΗΤΈΩ (G1934) искать, стр...
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...
FOR AFTER ALL THESE THINGS DO THE GENTILES SEEK— It was the general character of the heathens, that they neither prayed to their gods, nor laboured themselves for any other blessings than the temporal...
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...
(For after all these things do the Gentiles seek:) for your heavenly Father knoweth that ye have need of all these things. (FOR AFTER ALL THESE THINGS DO THE GENTILES SEEK), [ epizeetei (G1934)] -...
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...
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...
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...
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...
AFTER ALL THESE THINGS DO THE GENTILES SEEK. — The tone is one of pity rather than of censure, though it appeals, not without a touch of gentle rebuke (as before in Matthew 6:5) to the national pride...
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...
_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...
_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...
τὰ ἔθνη, again a reference to heathen practice; in Matthew 6:7 to their “battology” in prayer, here to the kind of blessings they eagerly ask (ἐπιζητοῦσιν); material only or chiefly; bread, raiment, w...
_Renewed exhortation against care_....
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...
It is not without reason that men are in such great fear and distress, when they are so blind as to imagine that their happiness in this life is ruled by fate. But such as know that they are entirely...
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...
_THE ANTIDOTE TO ANXIETY_ ‘Your heavenly Father knoweth that ye have need of all these things.’ Matthew 6:32 Anxiety must be a sin. And it must be a sin very deep in the heart. So large a portion o...
Matthew 6:32._For all those things the Gentiles seek _This is a reproof of the gross ignorance, in which all such anxieties originate. For how comes it, that unbelievers never remain in a state of tra...
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...
FOR AFTER ALL THESE THINGS DO THE GENTILES SEEK,.... Or "the nations of the world", as in Luke 12:30. The Syriac reads it so here: the phrase, אומות העולם "the nations of the world", is used of the Ge...
(For after all these things do the Gentiles seek:) for your heavenly Father knoweth that ye have need of all these things. Ver. 32. _For after all these things do the Gentiles seek_] With whom if you...
_Therefore take no thought_ Be no more distracted and torn in pieces, as it were, with anxious and unbelieving thoughts, _Saying, What shall we eat_, &c. How shall we be provided for during the remain...
GENTILES; those who know not God. KNOWETH; he is acquainted with your wants, and in the proper use of means, without your anxiety, he will supply them....
(FOR AFTER ALL THESE THINGS DO THE GENTILES SEEK.) FOR YOUR HEAVENLY FATHER KNOWETH THAT YE HAVE NEED OF ALL THESE THINGS. It is in the form of an impassioned peroration that the Lord pleads with His...
Christ renews His exhortation against 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...
Ver. 31,32. Our Lord repeateth the precept before given, MATTHEW 6:25, wherein he forbids not all moderate and provident thoughts for things necessary, but only such thoughts as shall argue our distru...
Clement of Alexandria The Instructor Book II " Now pride and luxury make men waverers (or raise them aloft) from the truth; and the voluptuousness, which indulges in superfluities, leads away from the...
Matthew 6:32 For G1063 after G1934 all G3956 things G5023 Gentiles G1484 seek G1934 (G5719) For G1063 your...
Matthew 6:32. BUT SEEK YE FIRST. No ‘secondly' is implied, as though we might be avaricious, after we have attended to the duties of religion. The first object is supreme. This positive command is nee...
Matthew 6:32. FOR. A reason against this anxious thought is now given. The parenthesis is unnecessary. AFTER ALL THESE THINGS DO THE GENTILES SEEK. Worldliness and distrust are heathenish. The Phari...
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...
Matthew 6:32 I. In every suffering of body or mind the eternal God knows and measures most exactly our afflictions, be they what they may, great or small. The doctrine was known of old to the Psalmist...
Matthew 6:31 I. There is a kind of low-toned care which is heard, as it were, in the distance, surging and moaning as it breaks upon the shore of human life; and many a man's music is this melancholy...
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...
THESE ARE THE THINGS. The heathen [_people who were not aware of the One True God_] were hated by the Jews. Jesus is saying that such behavior in the heathen might be overlooked, but you have a heaven...
_Your heavenly Father knoweth._ THE ANTIDOTE TO ANXIETY I. Reasons against anxiety. 1. Anxiety is a part of indecision of character and partakes of its harmfulness. “No man can serve two masters.”...
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 Thessalonians 4:5; Ephesians 4:17; Luke 11:11; Luke 12:30; Matt