Matthew 15:4

Matthew 15:4. For God said (comp. Mark 7:10), in the law of Moses. Our Lord assumes that God spoke through this law. The precepts cited are apt, since the Pharisees upheld tradition as delivered by the ‘fathers.'

He that revileth, etc. Exodus 21:17. Our Lord quotes, not the promise in the Decalogue, but the penalty given elsewhere. ‘Revileth,' lit., ‘speaketh evil of,' comp. Mark 9:39, which shows that ‘curseth' is too strong a term.

Surely die. In the original Hebrew: ‘dying he shall die;' in the original Greek of this passage: ‘let him end with death,' both equivalent to: ‘he shall surely die; ‘this penalty is to be inflicted upon him.