Matthew 5:47. The same idea is repeated here, except that heathen is substituted for ‘publicans, according to the best authorities. The Jews, despising the Gentiles, did not usually salute them. The morality of the Pharisees is proved to be, in this respect, no better than that of the heathen.

The same. This is correct here; in Matthew 5:46 it is doubtful whether we should read ‘so ‘or ‘the same.'

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