Expositor's Greek Testament (Nicoll)
Matthew 18:14
Matthew 18:14, pplication of the parable less emphatic than in Lk. θέλημα, a will, for an object of will. ἔμπροσθεν τ. π. μ.: before the face of = for, etc.
Matthew 18:14, pplication of the parable less emphatic than in Lk. θέλημα, a will, for an object of will. ἔμπροσθεν τ. π. μ.: before the face of = for, etc.
MATTHEW 18:14 u`mw/n {C} Between the readings “your Father” and “my Father” it is difficult to decide. 24 The latter, though strongly attested, probably reflects the influence of tou/ patro,j mou in...
Verse Matthew 18:14. _IT IS NOT THE WILL OF YOUR FATHER_] If any soul be finally lost, it is not because God's _will_ or _counsel_ was against its salvation, or that a proper provision had not been ma...
To show still further the reason why we should not despise Christians, he introduced a parable showing the joy felt when a thing lost is found. A shepherd rejoices over the recovery of one of his floc...
6. INSTRUCTIONS TO HIS DISCIPLES. CONCERNING FORGIVENESS. CHAPTER 18 1. Concerning the Little Ones and Offences. (Matthew 18:1 .) 2. The Son of Man to Save What is Lost. (Matthew 18:11 .) 3. The Chu...
A CONVERSATION WITH THE TWELVE. For Matthew 18:1, the question of precedence, _cf._ Mark 9:33 *, also Matthew 20:26 f., Mark 10:43 f.,...
"What do you think? If a man has a hundred sheep, and one of them wanders away, will he not leave the ninety-nine, and go out to the hills, and will he not seek the wandering one? And if he finds it--...
PERSONAL RELATIONSHIPS (Matthew 18:1-35) Matthew 18:1-35 is a most important chapter for Christian Ethics, because it deals with those qualities which should characterize the personal relationships o...
WILL. desire. Greek. _thelema,_ from _thelo._ App-102. YOUR.. Tr. WH and Rm read "My"....
Christ's care for His Little Ones illustrated by a Parable. Luke 15:3-7 After a brief digression (Matthew 18:7), Christ's love for His young disciples again breaks out in words. Let no one despise th...
CHRIST’S CARE FOR HIS LITTLE ONES ILLUSTRATED BY A PARABLE Luke 15:3-7. After a brief digression (Matthew 18:7-9), Christ’s love for His young disciples again breaks out in words. Let no one despise...
Ver 10. "Take heed that ye despise not one of these little ones; for I say unto you, That in heaven their angels do always behold the face of my Father which is in heaven. 11. For the Son of man is co...
_THE HEART OF A CHRISTIAN IS CHARACTERIZED BY CONCERN FOR OTHERS MATTHEW 18:10-14:_ God is concerned about the individual. Christians should share that concern. "Even so it is not the will of your Fat...
ΈΜΠΡΟΣΘΕΝ (G1715) с _gen._ перед. Выражение из Таргумов используется со ссылкой на Бога в значении: "на то нет воли Моего Отца" (ТТ, 95). ΆΠΌΛΗΤΑΙ _aor. conj. med. от_ ΆΠΌΛΛΥΜΙ (G622) погибать....
DISCOURSE: 1381 THE SECURITY OF GOD’S CHILDREN Matthew 18:14. _It is not the will of your Father which is in heaven that one of these little ones should perish_. OF all the images used in the Holy Sc...
EVEN SO, &C.— That is, "God greatly delights in the conversion and salvation of men, and is at as much pains to reclaim them, as a shepherd is to bring back a sheep which was strayed from the fold." W...
C. GOD HIMSELF HAS NO DESIRE TO LOSE ANY WE MIGHT DESIGNATE AS INFERIORS! (18:14) Matthew 18:14 EVEN SO, in the same way angels have the interests and needs of these LITTLE ONES on their hearts, in th...
Section 46 JESUS TRAINS THE TWELVE IN PERSONAL RELATIONS (Parallels: Mark 9:33-50; Luke 9:46-50) TEXT: 18:1-35 A. Humility and True Greatness 1 In that hour came the disciples unto Jesus, saying, Wh...
Even so it is not the will of your Father which is in heaven, that one of these little ones should perish. EVEN SO IT IS NOT THE WILL OF YOUR FATHER WHICH IS IN HEAVEN, THAT ONE OF THESE LITTLE ON...
24 See Exo_30:11-16; Exo_38:25-26. 24 According to the law every one who was numbered in Israel, being over twenty years of age, paid half a shekel to shelter his soul (Exo_30:12-14). It was used for...
18:14 Father (k-9) Lit. 'there is no will before your Father.' cf. ch. 11.26....
PARABLE OF THE LOST SHEEP, 'which is intended to show that it would be in direct opposition to God's desire for human salvation to lead astray one of those little ones, and to cause him to be lost, li...
OFFENDING THE LITTLE ONES. THE UNMERCIFUL SERVANT 1-14. Ambition reproved, and humility taught by the example of a little child (Mark 9:33; Luke 9:46)....
MATTHEW’S GOOD NEWS MATTHEW’S *GOSPEL _HILDA BRIGHT_ CHAPTER 18 Chapter 18 is the fourth section of what Jesus taught. It ends in the same way as the other sections ‘Now when Jesus had finished...
EVEN SO IT IS NOT THE WILL ... — The form of the proposition has all the force that belongs to the rhetorical use of the negative. “It is not the will” suggests the thought that the will of the Father...
SAVING THE STRAYING Matthew 18:10-20 How tenderly the Master speaks of the children! We must turn back to become like them, Matthew 18:3. To cause them to stumble is to incur terrible penalties, Mat...
What a sad state of heart prompted this question! How absolutely opposed to the whole genius of the Master's teaching and example! He replied by an act, and a statement growing out of that act. The ch...
Even so it is not. Here some may perhaps object, that since the Almighty does not wish any of his little ones to perish, he must consequently wish all to be saved, and therefore that all will be saved...
"Woe unto the world because of offences! for it must needs be that offences come; but woe to that man by whom the offence cometh! (8) Wherefore if thy hand or thy foot offend thee, cut them off, and c...
Chapter 8, which opens the portion that comes before us tonight, is a striking illustration as well as proof of the method which God has been pleased to employ in giving us the apostle Matthew's accou...
In chapter 18 the great principles proper to the new order of things are made known to the disciples. Let us search a little into these sweet and precious instructions of the Lord. They may be looked...
EVEN SO IT IS NOT THE WILL OF YOUR FATHER WHICH IS IN HEAVEN,.... This is the accommodation, or application of the parable of the lost sheep to the present purpose, and is the top of the climax or gra...
Even so it is not the will of your Father which is in heaven, that one of these little ones should perish. Ver. 14. _It is not the will of your Father_] Happy for us, that we are kept by the power of...
_How think_ ye What do you think would be the conduct of a faithful shepherd? _If a man have a hundred sheep, and_ but _one of them_ wander from the rest, _and go astray, doth he not leave the ninety...
The seeking and saving of those who are lost, and the bringing of them to the fold of the Redeemer, gives joy to angels and to God....
Though the Lord Jesus has been seen to forego His own rights, He who is by right infinitely great, the disciples show the opposite attitude in desiring some rights above those of others in the kingdom...
7-14 Considering the cunning and malice of Satan, and the weakness and depravity of men's hearts, it is not possible but that there should be offences. God permits them for wise and holy ends, that t...
Ver. 12-14. We shall meet with the parable or similitude more fully, LUKE 15:4. To what purpose it is brought here our Lord hath told us, MATTHEW 18:14, to show us, that it is not the will of our heav...
Constitutions of the Holy Apostles Book II since "it is not pleasing in the sight of your Father that one of these little ones should perish."[82] Origen Commentary on Matthew Book XIII and "So it...
Matthew 18:14 so G3779 is G2076 (G5748) not G3756 will G2307 of G1715 your G5216 Father G3962 who...
“Even so it is not the will of your Father who is in heaven, that one of these little ones should perish.” In the same way as the shepherd cares for his sheep, so does the Father care for the little o...
THE LITTLE ONES ARE SO IMPORTANT TO GOD THAT IF ONE GOES ASTRAY HE SEEKS THEM UNTIL HE FINDS THEM (18:11-14). Jesus here uses the idea of the shepherd seeking his sheep, which was something that happe...
The whole chapter forms one discourse, delivered upon one occasion, after the return to Capernaum, probably immediately succeeding the miracle just mentioned. Two distinct topics are spoken of: the _f...
Matthew 18:14. THE WILL OF YOUR FATHER. In Matthew 18:10 where the dignity of the little ones is asserted, our Lord says ‘my rather;' here where the duty is enforced by God's gracious will, ‘your Fath...
THE WILL OF YOUR FATHER (θελημα εμπροσθεν). Observe that Westcott and Hort read μου here rather than υμων after B Sahidic Coptic. Either makes good sense, though "your" carries on the picture of God...
Matthew 18:14 Nothing impresses us so much with God's inexhaustible love in creation as tracing it into its minute provisions, and searching for its arrangements which escape the common sight of men....
Matthew 18:10 Think of His words, and you will see, first, that Jesus isolates each of us, setting us one by one apart: "despise not _one;_" He is come to save that one; "if one of them be gone astray...
Matthew 18:1. _At the same time came the disciples unto Jesus, saying, Who is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven?_ The question we have sometimes heard asked in other forms, «Which is the highest...
CONTENTS: Sermon on the child text. Discipline in the church. Unity in prayer. Law of forgiveness. CHARACTERS: God, Jesus, Peter. CONCLUSION: Those are truly great who are truly humble and good, and...
Matthew 18:1. _Who is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven?_ The comparative μειζων _greater,_ is put here for the superlative. By the kingdom of heaven, they meant the worldly glory of the church in...
YOUR FATHER IN HEAVEN. God through Christ came to "look for" his "lost sheep." [Christianity is unique in showing God who comes down to man to act in history so that each man and woman is given the op...
_Even so it is not the will of your Father which is in heaven _ THE CHILDREN’S FRIENDS I. The children around us have friends. 1. They have Divine Friends. God the Father, God the Son, God the Holy...
MATTHEW—NOTE ON MATTHEW 18:1 The Community of the Messiah Revealed. This is the fourth of Jesus’ five major teachings in Matthew’s Gospel (see Introduction: Key Themes). Jesus instructs his disciples...
1-35 CHAPTER 18 _At that time came_, &c. There seems to be a discrepancy here with Mark 9:31, where it is said that the disciples disputed about this matter in the way, and that afterwards, when they...
_CRITICAL NOTES_ Matthew 18:5. ONE SUCH LITTLE CHILD.—Whether literally or only morally a little child. Our Saviour had reference, we doubt not, to both phases of childhood. That He refers to literal...
EXPOSITION MATTHEW 18:1 _Discourse concerning the greatest in the kingdom of heaven, and the mutual duties of Christians_._ _(Mark 9:33; Luke 9:46-42.)...
Now at the same time there came disciples to Jesus, saying, Who is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven? (Matthew 18:1) Oh, boy how they longed for this. You're talking about motivation, and the disc...
1 Corinthians 8:11; 1 Peter 1:3; 2 Peter 3:9; 2 Timothy 2:10;...
The will of your Father [θ ε λ η μ α ε μ π ρ ο σ θ ε ν τ ο υ π α τ ρ ο ς υ μ ω ν]. Though some read my Father [μ ο υ]. Lit., There is not a will before your (my) Father. So Wyc., It is not will before...
So it is not the will of your Father — Neither doth my Father despise the least of them. Observe the gradation. The angels, the Son, the Father....