1:11 away (a-14) In those days conquerors transported conquered nations to distant seats, and replaced them by others, that national feeling might not subsist, but dependence be complete. 'Carrying away' is feeble for this, but I know no other word.... [ Continue Reading ]
5:1 the (c-9) It is well to notice here an habitual use of the article. It is a known rule that contrast, and hence one part of a thing as contradistinguished from another, has the article. This is the case with 'ship' and 'mountain' in the gospels. 'he was' or 'went' 'on board ship;' not a particul... [ Continue Reading ]
5:5 earth. (f-9) Or 'land.' This is a quotation from Psalms 37:11 . For a Jew, inheriting the land was inheriting the earth, and vice versa. It was not the haughty Pharisee or the violent who were to have it. God would give it to the meek of the earth that waited on Him. I have put 'earth' as giving... [ Continue Reading ]
5:13 earth; (a-7) Or 'land.'... [ Continue Reading ]
5:15 bushel, (b-12) I have left 'bushel' as well known; it was a measure under half a bushel.... [ Continue Reading ]
5:16 upright (c-14) I do not put 'good works,' because it has acquired the force of benevolent actions, which is not the force here, but all that is upright and honourable and comely, what ought to be in one who feels aright. 'Upright' does not quite give the whole sense. see 'good work,' Mark 14:6... [ Continue Reading ]
5:17 fulfil. (d-24) 'Give the fulness of.' It is not to fulfil a command in the way of obedience, nor to complete another thing by adding to it; but to fill up some system sketched out, or that which is expressed in the thing fulfilled, as a whole. Thus the doctrine of the Church completed the word... [ Continue Reading ]
5:20 surpass (e-10) Or 'excel.' It includes the idea of being a better righteousness. see ver. 47.... [ Continue Reading ]
5:22 Raca, (f-29) i.e. stupid, worthless, a term of contempt. Fool, (g-43) As chs. 23.17; 25.2,3,8. to (h-47) _ Eis_ . has the force of 'even to,' 'as far as,'as in other cases. as Romans 5:21 , 'to eternal life;' Revelation 13:3 , 'to death;' Ephesians 3:19 , 'to all the fulness.' hell (i-52) Gehen... [ Continue Reading ]
5:25 time (a-18) Or 'lest it may be.' Perhaps 'lest' is sufficient; it suggests something uncertain which otherwise might happen any time. see Mark 4:12 .... [ Continue Reading ]
5:26 farthing. (b-20) The quarter of an assarion. see ch. 10.29.... [ Continue Reading ]
5:29 snare (c-8) Lit. the 'catch of a trap.' see ch. 13.57.... [ Continue Reading ]
5:37 evil. (d-18) Or 'the evil one.'... [ Continue Reading ]