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Verse 29. - 30. _PLUCK IT OUT - CUT IT OFF_] We must shut our senses
against dangerous objects, to avoid the occasions of sin, and deprive
ourselves of all that is most dear and profitable to us, in o...
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THY RIGHT EYE - The Hebrews, like others, were accustomed to represent
the affections of the mind by the members or parts of the body, Romans
7:23; Romans 6:13. Thus, the bowels denoted compassion; th...
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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:...
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MATTHEW 5:27 F. ADULTERY. Jesus again extends the scope of the
prohibition from actions to thoughts. There is so mething more here
than the seventh or even the tenth commandment, where the coveting is...
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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...
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If your right eye proves a stumbling-block to you, tear it out and
throw it away from you; for it is better that one part of your body
should be destroyed, than that your whole body should go away to...
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THY RIGHT EYE: i.e. thy choicest possession. Figure of speech
_Hypocatastasis._ App-6.
OFFEND. causeth thee to stumble (morally). Compare Matthew 18:6; 1
Corinthians 1:23....
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_thy right eye_ suggested by the preceding verse. The eye and the hand
are not only in themselves good and serviceable, but _necessary_.
Still they may become the occasion of sin to us. So pursuits an...
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Ὁ ὈΦΘΑΛΜΌΣ ΣΟΥ, suggested by the preceding verse. The
eye and the hand are not only in themselves good and serviceable, but
_necessary_. Still they may become the occasion of sin to us. So
pursuits an...
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Adultery, 27–32...
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VER 29. "AND IF THEY RIGHT EYE OFFEND THEE, PLUCK IT OUT, AND CAST IT
FROM THEE: FOR IT IS PROFITABLE FOR THEE THAT ONE OF THY MEMBERS
SHOULD PERISH, AND NOT THAT THY WHOLE BODY SHOULD BE CAST INTO HE...
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_JESUS' TEACHING ABOUT MURDER, ADULTERY AND SWEARING MATTHEW 5:21-37:_
In Matthew 5:21-26 we learn that the thought of hatred produces the
act of murder. Therefore, the thought is the act in the heart...
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DISCOURSE: 1304
THE NECESSITY OF MORTIFYING EVERY SIN
Matthew 5:29. If thy right eye offend thee, pluck it out, and cast it
from thee: for it is profitable for thee that one of thy members
should peri...
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AND IF THY RIGHT EYE OFFEND THEE, &C.— The word rendered _offend
thee,_ σκανδαλιζει, signifies to be a stumbling-block in a
person's way, or the occasion of his fall; and so implies much more
than mer...
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C. THE RELATION OF THE WISE AND GODLY MAN TO THE LAW
3. HIS ATTITUDE TOWARD LUST.
TEXT: 5:27-32
27. Ye have heard that it was said, Thou shalt not commit adultery:
28. but I say unto you, that every o...
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And if thy right eye offend thee, pluck it out, and cast it from
thee: for it is profitable for thee that one of thy members should
perish, and not that thy whole body should be cast into hell.
AND...
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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...
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5:29 snare (c-8) Lit. the 'catch of a trap.' see ch. 13.57....
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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
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REVISION OF THE LAW OF ADULTERY. Jesus expands the Mosaic prohibition
of adultery into a law of inward purity of the strictest kind, and
gives important counsel to the tempted....
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HELL] i.e. Gehenna, the place of final punishment.
31, 32. REVISION OF THE LAW OF DIVORCE. Christ restrained the
excessive licence of divorce which existed at the time, and declared
marriage to be (wi...
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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...
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IF THY RIGHT EYE OFFEND THEE. — The Greek verb means, strictly, to
cause another to stumble or fall into a snare, and this was probably
the sense in which the translators used the word “offend.” It is...
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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...
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_Second illustration_, taken from the seventh commandment. A grand
moral law, in brief lapidary style guarding the married relation and
the sanctity of home. Of course the Hebrew legislator condemned...
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_Counsel to the tempted_, expressing keen perception of the danger and
strong recoil from a sin to be shunned at all hazards, even by
excision, as it were, of offending members; two _named_, eye and h...
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PURE EYES AND CLEAN SPEECH
Matthew 5:27-37
The legislation of the old time insisted that no member of the
commonwealth should commit adultery, and enforced terrible penalties.
See Deuteronomy 22:22-2...
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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...
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And if thy (r) right eye (s) offend thee, pluck it out, and cast [it]
from thee: for it is profitable for thee that one of thy members
should perish, and not [that] thy whole body should be cast into...
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Whatever is an immediate occasion of sin, however near or dear it may
be, must be abandoned (Menochius), though it prove as dear to us, or
as necessary as a hand, or an eye, and without delay or demur...
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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...
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Reader! do not fail to observe the spiritual nature of the law of GOD.
It is not limited to actions, but includes thoughts. The heart is the
forge where all actions are worked. And whether they be bro...
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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...
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29._If thy right eye shall be a stumbling-block to thee. _It might be
thought that, considering the weakness of the flesh and of nature,
Christ pressed too severely on men, and therefore he anticipate...
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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...
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AND IF THY RIGHT EYE OFFEND THEE,.... Or "cause thee to offend", to
stumble, and fall into sin. Our Lord has no regard here to near and
dear relations seeking to alienate us from God and Christ, and h...
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And if thy right eye offend thee, pluck it out, and cast _it_ from
thee: for it is profitable for thee that one of thy members should
perish, and not _that_ thy whole body should be cast into hell.
V...
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_If thy right eye offend thee_ If any person or thing, as pleasant and
as dear to thee as thy right eye, should be a stumbling-block in thy
way, and an occasion of thy falling, or should be a means of...
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OFFEND THEE; cause thee to sin.
PROFITABLE FOR THEE; it is better to put away the causes of sin than
to suffer its consequences. The avoidance of sin by self-denial, and
if need by, by great sacrific...
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AND IF THY RIGHT EYE OFFEND THEE, PLUCK IT OUT AND CAST IT FROM THEE.
FOR IT IS PROFITABLE FOR THEE THAT ONE OF THY MEMBERS SHOULD PERISH,
AND NOT THAT THY WHOLE BODY SHOULD BE CAST INTO HELL....
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Christ's advice to the tempted:...
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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...
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OFFEND THEE:
Or, do cause thee to offend...
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27-32 Victory over the desires of the heart, must be attended with
painful exertions. But it must be done. Every thing is bestowed to
save us from our sins, not in them. All our senses and powers mus...
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SEE POOLE ON "MATTHEW 5:30"....
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Clement of Alexandria The Instructor Book III
Accordingly, the Lord very summarily cures this malady: "If thine eye
offend thee, cut it out,"[127]
Genuine Acts of Peter of Alexandria
For when his h...
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Matthew 5:29 G1161 If G1487 your G4675 right G1188 eye G3788 causes
G4624 you G4571 sin G4624 ...
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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...
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2). GOD'S CONCERN ABOUT THE PURITY OF WOMEN: WHAT THE DISCIPLES'
ATTITUDE IS TO BE TOWARDS THE LAW CONCERNING ADULTERY, DIVORCE, AND
SEXUAL ATTITUDE: THE NEED TO BE HARSH WITH THEMSELVES ABOUT SIN
(5:...
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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...
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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...
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Matthew 5:29. An application by direct address.
THY RIGHT EYE, etc. Comp. chap. Matthew 18:8-9; Mark 9:43-48, where
the order is different. Here the ‘eye' is placed first, on account
of the connectio...
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CAUSETH THEE TO STUMBLE
(σκανδαλιζε σε). This is far better than the Authorized
Version "_Offend thee_." _Braid Scots_ has it rightly "ensnare ye." It
is not the notion of giving offence or provokin...
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Matthew 5:29
This is one of the texts which the mass of mankind, if they would
confess it, feel rather as a blow when they read it. They feel it as a
text which it would be disagreeable to them to th...
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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,...
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Matthew 5:1. _And seeing the multitudes, he went up into a mountain:
and when he was set, his disciples came unto him: And he opened his
mouth, and taught them, saying,-_
Our Saviour soon gathered a...
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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...
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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...
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TAKE IT OUT... CUT IT OFF. Symbolic. It would not solve the problem to
take out your eye or cut off your hand. The sin springs from the
desire of the heart. Jesus says it would be a good trade to sacr...
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MATTHEW—NOTE ON MATTHEW 5:1 The Authoritative Message of the
Messiah: Kingdom Life for His Disciples. This is the first of five
major teaching sections in Matthew 1:1 (chs....
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MATTHEW—NOTE ON MATTHEW 5:21 YOU HAVE HEARD THAT IT WAS SAID (vv.
Matthew 5:21, Matt
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MATTHEW—NOTE ON MATTHEW 5:29 RIGHT EYE... RIGHT HAND. The right side
often stood for the more powerful or important. The eye is the medium
through which one is tempted to sin. The hand is used to comm...
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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...
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_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...
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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...
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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...
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1 Corinthians 9:27; 1 Peter 4:1; Colossians 3:5; Galatians 5:24;...
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Offend [σ κ α ν δ α λ ι ζ ε ι]. The word offend carries to
the English reader the sense of giving offense, provoking. Hence the
Rev., by restoring the picture in the word, restores its true meaning,
c...
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THE SERMON ON THE MOUNT
Matthew 5:1
INTRODUCTORY WORDS
1. The key to the Sermon on the Mount is found in Matthew 4:23 :
"preaching the Gospel of the Kingdom."
Before the Lord sat a great crowd of p...
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If a person as dear as a right eye, or as useful as a right hand,
cause thee thus to offend, though but in heart. Perhaps here may be an
instance of a kind of transposition which is frequently found i...
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Is hell the grave or a place of conscious torment?
PROBLEM: Jesus refers here to the “body” being “cast into
hell,” and the psalmist speaks of “bones” being “scattered at
the mouth of hell [sheol]” (P...
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Our Saviour had condemned ocular adultery in the foregoing verse, or
the adultery of the eye; HE THAT LOOKETH ON. WOMAN TO LUST AFTER HER,
HATH COMMITTED ADULTERY WITH HER IN HIS HEART.
Whence note,...