Luke 6:37

In these special precepts it is implied throughout that God acts as we are exhorted to act. They give a picture of the gracious spirit of God. καὶ, connecting the following precept as a special with a general. No καὶ in Matthew 7:1, where begins a new division of the sermon. In Mt. the judging condemned is referred to as a characteristic Pharisaic vice. Here it is conceived of as internal to the disciple-circle, as in James 4:12. ἀπολύετε, set free, as a debtor (Matthew 18:27), a prisoner, or an offender (τῆς ἁμαρτίας ἀπολυθῆναι, 2Ma 12:45).