Justin Edwards' Family Bible NT (1851)
Matthew 5:28
In his heart; the laws of God extend to the thoughts; and men may violate them in their hearts without manifesting their feelings in outward conduct.
In his heart; the laws of God extend to the thoughts; and men may violate them in their hearts without manifesting their feelings in outward conduct.
Verse Matthew 5:28. _WHOSOEVER LOOKETH ON A WOMAN TO LUST AFTER HER_] επιθυμσαι αυτην, _earnestly to covet her_. The verb, επιθυμεω, is undoubtedly used here by our Lord, in the sense of _coveting_ t...
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You have heard that it has been said: You must not commit adultery. But I say to you that every one who looks at a woman in such a way as to waken within himself forbidden desires for her has already...
WHOSOEVER. every one that. LOOKETH. keeps looking See App-133. A WOMAN. a married woman....
(β) Adultery, 27 32. 28. _to lust after her_i. e. "with a view to lust after her." _in his heart_ Contrast with the pure _in heart, Matthew 5:8_....
In αὐτῆς read for αὐτὴν we trace the probably unconscious emendation of a scholar. 28. ΠΡῸΣ ΤῸ ἘΠΙΘΥΜΗ͂ΣΑΙ, i.e. ‘with a view to lust after her.’ ἘΝ ΤΗ͂Ι ΚΑΡΔΊΑΙ. Contrast with the pure _in heart,_...
(β) Adultery, 27–32...
VER 27. "YE HAVE HEARD THAT IT WAS SAID BY THEM OF OLD TIME, 'THOU SHALT NOT COMMIT ADULTERY:' 28. BUT I SAY UNTO YOU, THAT WHOSOEVER LOOKETH ON A WOMAN TO LUST AFTER HER HATH COMMITTED ADULTERY WITH...
_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...
ΒΛΈΠΩΝ _praes. act. part. от_ ΒΛΈΠΩ (G991) смотреть, глядеть, ΠΡΌΣ (G4314) с _inf._ чаще выражает намерение, йо иногда ослабляется до значения "с прицелом". Может выражать тенденцию и конечную цель,...
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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...
But I say unto you, That whosoever looketh on a woman to lust after her hath committed adultery with her already in his heart. BUT I SAY UNTO YOU, THAT WHOSOEVER LOOKETH ON A WOMEN TO LUST AFTER HE...
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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TO LUST AFTER HER. — The intent is more strongly marked in the Greek than in the English. It is not the passing glance, not even the momentary impulse of desire, but the continued gaze by which the im...
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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...
ὁ βλέπων : the looker is supposed to be a husband who by his look wrongs his own wife. γυναῖκα : married or unmarried. πρὸς τὸ ἐπιθυμῆσαι. he look is supposed to be not casual but persistent, the desi...
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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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...
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...
28._Whoever shall look upon a woman. _The design of Christ was to condemn generally the lust of the flesh. He says, that not only those who have seduced their neighbors’ wives, but those who have poll...
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...
BUT I SAY UNTO YOU, THAT WHOSOEVER LOOKETH ON A WOMAN,.... Many and severe are the prohibitions of the Jews, concerning looking upon a woman, which they aggravate as a very great sin: they say k, it i...
But I say unto you, That whosoever looketh on a woman to lust after her hath committed adultery with her already in his heart. Ver. 28. _But I say unto you, that whosoever looketh on a woman to lust...
_Ye have heard_, &c. Jesus now proceeds in his sermon to the seventh commandment, the true interpretation of which he gives us. _Thou shalt not commit adultery_ This, as well as the sixth commandment,...
BUT I SAY UNTO YOU, THAT WHOSOEVER LOOKETH ON A WOMAN TO LUST AFTER HER HATH COMMITTED ADULTERY WITH HER ALREADY IN HIS HEART. The Sixth Commandment had indeed been given to "them of old time," Exodus...
A lesson from the Sixth Commandment:...
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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...
The scope of our Saviour in these verses is the very same as in the verses immediately preceding, viz. to correct the jejune interpretation which the Pharisees had put upon the Divine law, and to show...
First Apology of Justin " And, "If thy right eye offend thee, cut it out; for it is better for thee to enter into the kingdom of heaven with one eye, than, having two eyes, to be cast into everlasting...
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“But I say to you, that every one who looks on a woman to lust after her, has committed adultery with her already in his heart.” Once again Jesus declares authoritatively, “I say to you.” Once He has...
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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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 5:28. EVERY ONE WHO, not seeth, but voluntarily LOOKETH, with a view TO LUST AFTER HER. Our Lord declares, not that such an one shall be condemned, but that in his _heart_ he has committed the...
IN HIS HEART (εν τη καρδια αυτου). Not just the centre of the blood circulation though it means that. Not just the emotional part of man's nature, but here the inner man including the intellect, the...
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,...
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...
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...
ANYONE WHO LOOKS. The Jews taught that there was no guilt, unless the act was performed. Some of them were "voyers" (_see_ 2 Peter 2:14). WANTS TO POSSESS HER. Not a casual look, but an _obsessive des...
_In his heart._ THE HEART OR WILL IS, IN MAN, THE SEAT OF VIRTUE OR VICE. I. Actions must be our invariable touchstone of truth whilst we sojourn in this state of imperfect knowledge and comparative...
MATTHEW—NOTE ON MATTHEW 5:28 WITH LUSTFUL INTENT (literally, “for the purpose of lusting for her”). It is not enough to maintain physical purity alone. One must also guard against mental acts of unfai...
MATTHEW—NOTE ON MATTHEW 5:21 YOU HAVE HEARD THAT IT WAS SAID (vv. Matthew 5:21, Matt
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....
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...
1 John 2:16; 2 Peter 2:14; 2 Samuel 11:2; Exodus 20:17; Genesis 34:2;...
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...