Expositor's Greek Testament (Nicoll)
Matthew 5:43-48
Sixth and final illustration: from the Law of Love. To an old partial form of the law Jesus opposes a new universal one.
Sixth and final illustration: from the Law of Love. To an old partial form of the law Jesus opposes a new universal one.
Verse 43. _THOU SHALT LOVE THY NEIGHBOUR, AND HATE THINE ENEMY._] Instead of πλησιαν _neighbour_, the Codex Graevii, a MS. of the eleventh century, reads φιλον _friend_. Thou shalt love thy friend, a...
YE HAVE HEARD THAT IT HATH BEEN SAID, THOU SHALT LOVE THY NEIGHBOR, AND HATE THINE ENEMY - The command to love our neighbor was a law of God, Leviticus 19:18. That we must therefore hate our enemy was...
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...
THE LAW OF LOVE. IT HATH BEEN SAID. it was said. Quoted from Leviticus 19:18. THINE ENEMY. thy foe. Personal, political, or religious....
(_c_) Love or Charity, 43 48. 43. _Thou shalt love thy neighbour_ Leviticus 19:18, "Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself." The second clause does not occur in Levit., but was a Rabbinical inferenc...
ἈΓΑΠΉΣΕΙΣ ΤῸΝ ΠΛΗΣΊΟΝ ΣΟΥ. Leviticus 19:18, ‘Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.’ The second clause does not occur in Levit., but was a Rabbinical inference. ἐχθρούς, all who are outside the cho...
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...
ΉΚΟΎΣΑΤΕ _aor. ind. act. от_ ΆΚΟΎΩ, _см._ Matthew 5:21. ΈΡΡΈΘΗ _aor. ind. pass_, ΛΈΓΩ _praes. ind. act., см._ Matthew 5:21. ΑΓΑΠΉΣΕΙΣ _fut. ind. act. от_ ΆΓΑΠΆΩ (G25) любить. _Fut._ употребляется дл...
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...
YE HAVE HEARD, &C.— It may be proper to note here, in this last quotation, the manner of our Lord's quoting the doctrines which he chose to speak of. He does not say, _Ye know that it was said,_ &c. a...
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...
Ye have heard that it hath been said, Thou shalt love thy neighbour, and hate thine enemy. YE HAVE HEARD THAT IT HATH BEEN SAID ( ), THOU SHALT LOVE THY NEIGHBOUR. [TO THIS THE CORRUPT TEACHERS ADD...
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
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...
THOU SHALT LOVE THY NEIGHBOUR, AND HATE THINE ENEMY. — In form the latter clause was a Rabbinic addition to the former; and this is important as showing that our Lord deals throughout not with the Law...
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...
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...
_And hate thy enemy. The words of the law (Leviticus xix. 18.) are only these: thou shalt love thy friend as thyself; but by a false gloss and inference, these words, and hate thy enemy, were added by...
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...
Matthew 5:43._Thou shalt love thy neighbor. _It is astonishing, that the Scribes fell into so great an absurdity, as to limit the word _neighbor _to benevolent persons: for nothing is more obvious or...
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...
YE HAVE HEARD THAT IT HATH BEEN SAID,.... By, or to them of old time. This law has been delivered to them, THOU SHALT LOVE THY NEIGHBOUR, with this appendage to it, or false gloss upon it, AND HATE...
Ye have heard that it hath been said, Thou shalt love thy neighbour, and hate thine enemy. Ver. 43. _Thou shalt love thy neighbour, and hate thine enemy_] This latter they drew as an inference from t...
_Ye have heard that it hath been said_ In this, as is in the former instances, our Lord, intending to comprehend not only the law itself, but the explications of it given by the Jewish doctors, and sa...
Final illustration, from the general law of love:...
YE HAVE HEARD THAT IT HATH BEEN SAID, THOU SHALT LOVE THY NEIGHBOR, AND HATE THINE ENEMY. The first injunction is found in the Law, Leviticus 19:18. The second part of the sentence is an addition made...
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...
_ Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself, _ was the old law of God, {LEVITICUS 19:18}; the other part, _ and hate thine enemy, _ was the Pharisees addition, or rather their collection, because the l...
Cyprian Treatise IX On the Advantage of Patience For if ye love them which love you, what reward shall ye have? do not even the publicans the same? And if ye shall salute your brethren only, what do...
Matthew 5:43 heard G191 (G5656) that G3754 said G4483 (G5681) love G25 (G5692) your G4675 neighbor...
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...
“You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall love your neighbour, and hate your enemy, The passage once again commences with a statement made by others. ‘It has been said.' This represents the popular...
FIVE FULLER APPLICATIONS OF THE LAW (5:21-43). In order to bring home what His disciples' approach to the Law should be Jesus selects five pivotal aspects of the Law, and expands on them and explains...
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...
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...
Matthew 5:43. THOU SHALT LOVE THY NEIGHBOUR. (See Leviticus 19:18). The original precept referred to Israelites, and obedience to it helped to keep them distinct from other nations. But the Pharisees,...
AND HATE THINE ENEMY (κα μισησεις). This phrase is not in Leviticus 19:18, but is a rabbinical inference which Jesus repudiates bluntly. The Talmud says nothing of love to enemies. Paul in Romans 12...
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 5:41. _And whosoever shall compel thee to go a mile, go with him twain._ If you can do him any service, do it cheerfully, do it readily. Do what he wants of you. Matthew 5:42. _Give to him t...
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 HAVE HEARD. The Law said to love your fellow man (Leviticus 19:18). The teachers of the Law said to hate your enemies, basing this on a misunderstanding _of_ Deuteronomy 23:6....
_Love your enemies._ FORGIVENESS OF INJURIES The duty of forgiveness does not forbid resentment, but the excess or abuse of it. I. Such resentment in excess is wrong, for anger produces anger; reve...
MATTHEW—NOTE ON MATTHEW 5:43 YOU HAVE HEARD THAT IT WAS SAID... HATE YOUR ENEMY. The OT never says that anyone should hate his or her enemy. In his “you have heard” statements (vv....
MATTHEW—NOTE ON MATTHEW 5:21 YOU HAVE HEARD THAT IT WAS SAID (vv. Matthew 5:21, Matt
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...
Deuteronomy 23:6; Deuteronomy 25:17; Exodus 17:14; Galatians 5:13;...
Neighbor [τ ο ν π λ η σ ι ο ν]. Another word to which the Gospel has imparted a broader and deeper sense. Literally it means the one near (so the Eng., neighbor = nigh - bor), indicating a mere outwar...
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...
Thou shalt love thy neighbour; And hate thy enemy — God spoke the former part; the scribes added the latter. Leviticus 19:18....
Why did the OT prescribe that one could hate his enemies? PROBLEM: Jesus said here of the OT, “You have heard that it was said, `You shall love your neighbor and hate your enemy.’ ” How could a God of...
Another corrupt gloss which the Pharisees had put upon the law of God, our Saviour here takes notice of: the law said, THOU SHALT LOVE THY NEIGHBOR, Leviticus 19:18. This they interpreted to relate on...