Justin Edwards' Family Bible NT (1851)
Matthew 18:35
Do also unto you; if we do not forgive others, God will not forgive us, but will punish us as we deserve. An unforgiving spirit is the spirit of perdition.
Do also unto you; if we do not forgive others, God will not forgive us, but will punish us as we deserve. An unforgiving spirit is the spirit of perdition.
MATTHEW 18:35 u`mw/n The words ta. paraptw,mata auvtw/n, which the Textus Receptus, following the later witnesses, adds at the close of the sentence, are a natural expansion, derived perhaps from...
Verse Matthew 18:35. _SO LIKEWISE SHALL MY HEAVENLY FATHER DO ALSO UNTO_ _YOU_] The goodness and indulgence of God towards us is the pattern we should follow in our dealings with others. If we take m...
SO LIKEWISE ... - This verse contains the sum or moral of the parable. When Christ has explained one of his own parables, we are to receive it just as he has explained it, and not attempt to draw spir...
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...
THE DUTY OF FORGIVENESS ILLUSTRATED BY THE PARABLE OF THE UNGRATEFUL SERVANT. With Matthew 18:21 _ cf._ Luke 17:4, which makes repentance a condition. The Rabbis taught (_Yoma,_ 86_ b)_ that one must...
Then Peter came and said to him, "Lord, how often will my brother sin against me, and I forgive him? Up to seven times?" Jesus said to him, "I tell you not up to seven times, but up to seventy times s...
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...
HEAVENLY. Greek. _epouranios._ Elsewhere Greek. _ouranios._ See Matthew 6:14; Matthew 6:26; Matthew 6:32; Matthew 15:13.
_from your hearts_ A different principle from the Pharisee's arithmetical rules of forgiveness. _their trespasses_ The MS. authority is against these words....
Forgiveness of Sins. Luke 17:3-4 God's forgiveness of sinners suggests the duty of forgiveness among men....
τὰ παραπτώματα αὐτῶν. After ΚΑΡΔΙΩ͂Ν ὙΜΩ͂Ν. These words have the support of C and 12 uncials, but are omitted in the earlier MSS. 35. ἈΠῸ ΤΩ͂Ν ΚΑΡΔΙΩ͂Ν ὙΜΩ͂Ν. A different principle from the Pharisee’...
FORGIVENESS OF SINS Luke 17:3-4 God’s forgiveness of sinners suggests the duty of forgiveness among men....
Ver 23. "Therefore is the kingdom of heaven likened unto a certain king, which would take account of his servants. 24. And when he had begun to reckon, one was brought unto him, which owed him ten tho...
_THE HEART OF A CHRISTIAN IS CHARACTERIZED BY FORGIVENESS MATTHEW 18:21-35:_ Jesus taught us just to keep on forgiving (seventy times seven). (Matthew 18:22) Are we like the man that owed several mill...
ΠΟΙΉΣΕΙ _fut. ind. act. от_ ΠΟΙΈΩ (G4160) делать, ΆΦΉΤΕ _aor. conj. act. от_ ΆΦΊΗΜΙ (G863) прощать. _Conj._ с ΈΆΝ (G1437) используется в _conj._, в котором условие считается возможным....
DISCOURSE: 1383 THE UNMERCIFUL SERVANT Matthew 18:32. Then his lord, after he had called him, said unto him, O thou wicked servant, I forgave thee all that debt, because thou desiredst me: shouldest n...
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...
B. JESUS ANSWERS: NO LIMIT: MERCIFULNESS IS THE RULE IN GOD'S KINGDOM! (18:22-35) Matthew 18:22 JESUS SAITH UNTO HIM, I SAY NOT UNTO THEE, UNTIL SEVEN TIMES; BUT, UNTIL SEVENTY TIMES SEVEN. On another...
So likewise shall my heavenly Father do also unto you, if ye from your hearts forgive not every one his brother their trespasses. SO LIKEWISE, [ Houtoos (G3779 ) kai (G2532 ), in this spirit, or on...
16 See Deu_19:15; Joh_8:17; 2Co_3:1. 18 See Mat_16:19. 19 The Lord continues in the same vein. If we should attempt to apply these privileges and promises now it would only bring reproach on His name...
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)....
THE UNMERCIFUL SERVANT (peculiar to St. Matthew). The lesson is that, inasmuch as God has forgiven us the great and unpayable debt which as sinners we owe to Him, so we also must forgive our brethren...
See Matthew 6:15....
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...
MY HEAVENLY FATHER. — The adjective is slightly different in form from that commonly used, suggesting rather the thought of the “Father in heaven.” DO ALSO UNTO YOU. — The words cut through the meshes...
_Parable of unmerciful servant_....
_Application_. οὕτως : so, _mutatis mutandis_, for feelings, motives, methods rise in the moral scale when we pass to the spiritual sphere. So in general, not in all details, on the same principle; me...
FORGIVEN YET UNFORGIVING Matthew 18:21-35 _Seventy times seven_ is illimitable forgiveness. These numbers denote the perfection of perfection; and if God asks so much of _us,_ what is _He_ not prepa...
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...
So also shall my heavenly Father do to you. In this parable the master is said to have remitted the debt, and yet afterwards to have punished the servant for it. God doth not in this manner with us. B...
FORGIVING ONE ANOTHER Matthew 18:21-35. _“Then Peter, coming to Him, said, Lord, how frequently shall my brother sin against me, and I forgive him? until seven times? Jesus says to him, I do not say u...
REFLECTIONS How truly blessed is it to have our hearts brought under divine teaching, and made like the simplicity of a weaned child. See my soul in the instance of these disciples of Jesus, how much...
"Then came Peter to him, and said, Lord, how oft shall my brother sin against me, and I forgive him? till seven times? (22) Jesus saith unto him, I say not unto thee, Until seven times: but, Until sev...
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...
_THE UNMERCIFUL SERVANT_ ‘So likewise shall My heavenly Father do also unto you, if ye from your hearts forgive not every one his brother their trespasses.’ Matthew 18:35 There are moments in the e...
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...
SO LIKEWISE SHALL MY HEAVENLY FATHER,.... This is the accommodation and application of the parable, and opens the design and intent of it; showing that God, who is Christ's Father, that is in heaven,...
So likewise shall my heavenly Father do also unto you, if ye from your hearts forgive not every one his brother their trespasses. Ver. 35. _If ye from your hearts forgive not_] Forget as well as forg...
_When his fellow-servants saw what was done_ When they beheld such inhumanity, in such circumstances, and from such a man; _they were very sorry_ Exceedingly grieved at such an instance of unexampled...
The application: SO LIKEWISE SHALL MY HEAVENLY FATHER DO ALSO UNTO YOU, IF YE FROM YOUR HEARTS FORGIVE NOT EVERY ONE HIS BROTHER THEIR TRESPASSES. Christ here opens up the meaning of the entire parabl...
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...
21-35 Though we live wholly on mercy and forgiveness, we are backward to forgive the offences of our brethren. This parable shows how much provocation God has from his family on earth, and how untowa...
Ver. 23-35. All these verses (except the last) are but a parable, which (as I before showed) is a similitude brought from the usual actions of men, and made use of to open or apply some spiritual doct...
Origen Commentary on Matthew Book XIV But it must further be said to those whose view it is that noone is delivered by Jesus to the tormentors,-pray, explain to us, good sirs, who is the king whodeli...
Matthew 18:35 So G3779 My G3450 heavenly G2032 Father G3962 also G2532 do G4160 (G5692) you G5213 if...
“So also will my heavenly Father do to you, if you forgive not every one his brother from your hearts.” The story ends with an application. This is how His Heavenly Father will behave (not the torturi...
Matthew 18:35. SO SHALL ALSO, etc. It is an overstraining of the parable to infer that God revokes His pardon. The character of the servant is not that of one actually forgiven, since with pardon from...
Matthew 18:1-14 forbade offences _against_ the humble. This section teaches how the humble should deal with offences: (1.) as regards the Christian assembly (Matthew 18:15-20); (2.) as regards his own...
FROM YOUR HEARTS (απο των καρδιων υμων). No sham or lip pardon, and as often as needed. This is Christ's full reply to Peter's question in Matthew 18:21. This parable of the unmerciful servant is s...
Matthew 18:23 The Unmerciful Servant. The key-notes of this parable are to be found at the beginning and end. It was spoken in order to show that a man should set no limit to the forgiveness of injuri...
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...
THAT IS HOW MY FATHER IN HEAVEN WILL TREAT YOU. Jesus says _my_ heavenly Father. God will not be their Father, unless they imitate the spirit of Christ. The parable is to show that God forgives us the...
_Therefore is the kingdom of heaven likened unto a certain king, which would take account of his servants._ THE UNMERCIFUL SERVANT I. That we are all God’s debtors. Debt in the New Testament is a co...
MATTHEW—NOTE ON MATTHEW 18:35 NOT FORGIVE YOUR BROTHER FROM YOUR HEART. Someone who does not forgive others shows that his own heart has not experienced God’s forgiveness....
_CRITICAL NOTES_ Matthew 18:22. UNTIL SEVENTY TIMES SEVEN.—That is, as often as there is a cause—a certain number is put for an uncertain (_John Wesley_). Matthew 18:24. TEN THOUSAND TALENTS.—The tal...
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...
James 2:13; James 3:14; James 4:8; Jeremiah 3:10; Luke 16:15;...
GOD'S FORGIVENESS FOR SINS Matthew 6:14; _Matthew 18:21_ INTRODUCTORY WORDS The question which the words of our first text propound, is, Is forgiveness conditional? In answering this query we would...