-
Verse Matthew 5:48. _BE YE THEREFORE PERFECT - AS YOUR FATHER_] God
himself is the grand law, sole giver, and only pattern of the
_perfection_ which he recommends to his children. The words are very...
-
BE YE THEREFORE PERFECT ... - The Saviour concludes this part of the
discourse by commanding his disciples to be “perfect.” This word
commonly means “finished, complete, pure, holy.” Originally, it is...
-
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...
-
PERFECT. In thus acting on the principles of grace, in conformity with
the laws of the kingdom here promulgated. Greek. _teleios._ See
App-125.
YOUR... HEAVEN. All the texts read "your heavenly Fathe...
-
_Be ye_ Lit. YE SHALL BE _perfect_. Either (1) in reference to a
future state, "if ye have this true love or charity ye shall be
perfect hereafter;" or (2) the future has an imperative force, and
_per...
-
ἜΣΕΣΘΕ ΤΈΛΕΙΟΙ. Lit. ‘ye shall be perfect.’ Either
(1) in reference to a future state, ‘if ye have this true love or
charity ye shall be perfect hereafter’; or (2) the future has an
imperative force,...
-
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...
-
ΈΣΕΣΘΕ _praes. imper. med. (dep.) от_ ΕΙΜΊ (G1510).
ΎΜΕΊΣ (G4771) вы (_pi._) — эмфатическое.
ΤΈΛΕΙΟΙ (G5046) _pl._ совершенный, зрелый.
Исполнять слова Иисуса — значит
любить совершенно, так что бол...
-
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...
-
BE YE THEREFORE PERFECT, &C.— Father Hardouin observes, that this
might be rendered, agreeably to the Greek, _You shall therefore be
perfect,_ so as to contain a promise, and not an exhortation. The
p...
-
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...
-
Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is
perfect.
BE YE THEREFORE, [ Esesthe (G2071) oun (G3767)] - rather, 'Ye shall
therefore be,' or 'Ye are therefore to be,' as My di...
-
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...
-
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
-
PERFECT] Glorious words! The perfection spoken of is the perfection of
Love, the supreme virtue both of God and man (1 Corinthians 13:13; 1
John 4:16)....
-
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...
-
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...
-
BE YE THEREFORE PERFECT. — Literally, _Ye therefore shall be
perfect_ — the ideal future that implies an imperative.
YOUR FATHER WHICH IS IN HEAVEN. — The better reading gives, _your
heavenly Father._...
-
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...
-
_Concluding exhortation_. οὖν, from an ancient form of the
participle of the verb εἶναι (Klotz, _Devar._) = “things being
so;” either a collective inference from all that goes before
(Matthew 5:21-47)...
-
_Sixth and final illustration: from the Law of Love_. To an old
partial form of the law Jesus opposes a new universal one....
-
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...
-
Jesus Christ here sums up his instructions by ordering us to be
perfect as our heavenly Father is perfect; i.e. to imitate, as far as
our exertions, assisted by divine grace, can reach, the divine
per...
-
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...
-
_MORAL PERFECTION_
‘Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is
perfect.’
Matthew 5:48
If we are apt to grow self-complacent, to thank God we are not as
other men are, but fa...
-
48._You shall therefore be perfect. _This _perfection _does not mean
_equality, _but relates solely to resemblance. (423) However distant
we are from the perfection of God, we are said to be _perfect,...
-
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...
-
BE YE THEREFORE PERFECT, AS YOUR FATHER,.... This perfection is to be
restrained to the subject Christ is upon, love to men, and not to be
referred to any, or every other thing; wherefore, in Luke 6:3...
-
Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is
perfect.
Ver. 48. _Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father, &c._] The
child (saith one) is the father multiplied, the father of...
-
AS YOUR FATHER; imitate him in all his imitable perfections....
-
A summary of this section: BE YE THEREFORE PERFECT, EVEN AS YOUR
FATHER WHICH IS IN HEAVEN IS PERFECT.
Since all these arguments must be accepted, and since love is the
fulfillment of the Law, the Lor...
-
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...
-
PERFECT here is not taken in that sense as it is taken in other texts
of Scripture, where it signifieth sincerity and uprightness, as JOB
2:3, or where it signifieth a comparative perfection, as Paul...
-
Epistle of Ignatius to the Philadelphians
of whose kindness the Lord, wishing us also to be imitators, says, "Be
ye perfect, even as also your Father that is in heaven is
perfect."[23]
Clement of Al...
-
Matthew 5:48 Therefore G3767 you G5210 be G2071 (G5704) perfect G5046
just G5618 your G5216 Father G3962 in...
-
You therefore shall be perfect, as your heavenly Father is perfect.”
The first thing to note here is that ‘you' is both plural (in
contrast with much of what has gone before) and emphatic. It means
‘y...
-
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...
-
Matthew 5:48. YE SHALL THEREFORE BE PERFECT. The first reference is to
completeness in love to others; to an all embracing, instead of a
narrow, exclusive affection. But the highest virtue includes al...
-
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...
-
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...
-
PERFECT
(τελειο). The word comes from τελος, end, goal, limit. Here
it is the goal set before us, the absolute standard of our Heavenly
Father. The word is used also for relative perfection as of a...
-
PERFECT
The word implies full development, growth into maturity of godliness,
not sinless perfection. (Ephesians 4:12). In this passage the Father's
kindness, not His sinlessness, is the point in que...
-
Matthew 5:48
If we are to obey the injunction of the text it is necessary that we
have faith in the fact.
I. It is implied in our text, it is taught throughout the New
Testament, and it is confirmed...
-
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 5:17. _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...
-
YOU MUST BE PERFECT. To fully carry out this great law of love would
raise man to the Divine ideal. Followers of Christ are to reach up to
this, even though human nature stands in their way. There is...
-
_Perfect._
I. What is not to be understood by this requirement, or what Christian
perfection is not. Not perfection of knowledge, freedom from
temptation, conflict, etc.
II. What is the perfection h...
-
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 3:3; 1 Peter 1:15; 1 Peter 1:16; 2 Corinthians 13:11;...
-
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...
-
Therefore ye shall be perfect; as your Father who is in heaven is
perfect — So the original runs, referring to all that holiness which
is described in the foregoing verses, which our Lord in the begin...
-
That is, aim at perfection in all Christian virtues and divine graces,
but particularly in this of love, in imitation of your heavenly
Father, who is the perfect pattern of all desirable goodness and...