Strait gate; strait here means narrow and difficult, and represents the difficulty of entering on a religious life, or beginning heartily to obey God.
Wide; easy to enter, requiring one only to follow his own depraved inclinations. The difficulties which stand in the way of beginning from the heart to obey God, need not and ought not to hinder any from doing it.
MATTHEW 7:13 platei/a h` pu,lh {B} The words h` pu,lh are absent (in ver. Matthew 7:13) from a* 1646 ita, b, c, h, k and many patristic quotations of the s...
Verse Matthew 7:13. _ENTER YE IN AT THE STRAIT GATE_] Our Saviour seems to allude here to the distinction between the public and private ways mentioned by the Jewish lawyers. The public roads were al...
ENTER YE IN AT THE STRAIT GATE - Christ here compares the way to life to an entrance through a gate. The words “straight” and “strait” have very different meanings. The former means “not crooked;” the...
CHAPTER 7 _ 1. The Judgment of Righteousness.(Matthew 7:1 .) 2. Warning against False Prophets.(Matthew 7:15 .) 3. Warning against False Professors. (Matthew 7:21 .)_ The chapter which follows contai...
EPILOGUE. Warnings and exhortations close the new Law, like the old (Exodus 23:20 ff.). MATTHEW 7:13 F. THE TWO GATES AND THE TWO WAYS (Luke 13:24). The picture is based on...
SOLEMN WARNINGS. -- Matthew 7:13-29. GOLDEN TEXT. --_ Every tree that bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down and cast into the fire._ -- Matthew 7:19. TIME AND PLACE. -As in several preceding less...
Go in through the narrow gate; for wide is the gate and broad is the road which leads to ruin, and there are many who go in through it. Narrow is the gate and hard is the way that leads to life, and t...
THE ERROR OF JUDGMENT (Matthew 7:1-5)...
ENTER YE IN, &C. Repeated on. later occasion. Luke 13:2. AT. through, or by means of Greek. _dia._ STRAIT. narrow. WIDE. Greek. _platus._ Occurs only here. BROAD. extensive. Greek. _euruchoros._ Oc...
_The broad and the narrow way_, Luke 13:24-25. The illustration seems to be drawn from a mansion having a large portal at which many enter, and a narrow entrance known to few. _strait_= narrow....
(_c_) The narrow entrance to the Kingdom, 13, 14 These verses are linked to the preceding by the thought of prayer, for it is by prayer chiefly that the narrow entrance must be gained....
C. CHARACTERISTICS OF THE KINGDOM, 1–27 After contrasting the New Law with the Mosaic Law and with Pharisaic rules and conduct, Jesus proceeds to lay down rules for the guidance of His disciples in th...
ΕἸΣΈΛΘΕΤΕ for εἰσέλθατε was a change to a more regular form. 13. ΕἸΣΈΛΘΑΤΕ … ΠΎΛΗΣ. Luke 13:24-25. The illustration seems to be drawn from a mansion having a large portal at which many enter, and a na...
VER 13. "ENTER YE IN AT THE STRAIT GATE; FOR WIDE IS THE GATE, AND BROAD IS THE WAY, THAT LEADETH TO DESTRUCTION, AND MANY THERE BE WHICH GO IN THEREAT: 14. BECAUSE STRAIT IS THE GATE, AND NARROW IS T...
_JESUS SPOKE WITH AUTHORITY ABOUT BEARING FRUIT MATTHEW 7:13-20:_ There are two ways and two gates. Only one way has eternal appeal. Walking the straight and narrow way requires a new heart and a new...
ΕΙΣΈΛΘΑΤΕ _aor. imper. act. от_ ΕΊΣΈΡΧΟΜΑΙ (G1525) приходить, входить, ΣΤΕΝΌΣ (G4728) узкий, ΠΎΛΗ (G4439) врата, городские или храмовые (Luz). Это сравнение может указывать на трудности (DA) или тяг...
DISCOURSE: 1331 THE STRAIT AND NARROW WAYS Matthew 7:13. _Enter ye in at the strait gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is the way that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat...
ENTER YE IN AT THE STRAIT GATE— That is, _strive to enter._ See Luke 13:24. By the figurative expressions used in these verses, our blessed Saviour gives us to understand how easy it is to enter into...
F. THE DANGERS FACING THE WISE AND GODLY MAN (Matthew 7:1-27; Luke 6:37-49) 5. THE DANGER OF CHOOSING THE WRONG WAY OF LIFE. TEXT: 7:13, 14 13. Enter ye in by the narrow gate: -for wide is the gate,...
Enter ye in at the strait gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat: ENTER YE IN AT THE STRAIT GATE - as if hardly wide en...
12 Compare Luk_6:31. 12 To do as we would be done by is an ethical standard far above the world's attainment, yet far beneath the monitions of grace. The law and the prophets demand compliance with t...
THE SERMON ON THE MOUNT (CONCLUDED) The connexion of thought in this chapter is less close than in the earlier part of the sermon, and the whole chapter bears the appearance of an appendix of miscell...
THE STRAIT GATE] RV 'the narrow gate.' St. Matthew's word means a city gate, St. Luke's a small gate or door. Even city gates are exceedingly narrow in the East. FOR WIDE _is_ THE GATE] Several modern...
MATTHEW’S GOOD NEWS MATTHEW’S *GOSPEL _HILDA BRIGHT_ CHAPTER 7 DO NOT BE JUDGES OF OTHER PEOPLE 7:1-6 V1 ‘Do not be judges of other people. If you do, God will be your judge. V2 In the same way...
ENTER YE IN AT THE STRAIT GATE. — The figure was possibly suggested by some town actually in sight. Safed, the “city set on a hill,” or some other, with the narrow pathway leading to the yet narrower...
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...
_The two ways_ (Luke 13:23-25). From this point onwards we have what commentators call the _Epilogue_ of the sermon, introduced without connecting particle, possibly no part of the teaching on the hil...
SEEKING LIFE; TESTING LEADERS Matthew 7:13-23 The world is full of shams. Counterfeit coins circulate; paste jewels are worn. Let us take heed against a counterfeit religion. It betrays itself thus:...
After thus enunciating the laws of the Kingdom, and bringing men into the realm of direct dealing with God, the King authoritatively set up the standard of judgment. No man is to be his brother's judg...
(5) Enter ye in at the strait gate: for wide [is] the gate, and broad [is] the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat: (5) The example of life must not be taken from...
_Enter ye in at the narrow gate, &c. The doctrine of these two verses needs no commentary, but deserve serious attention. (Witham)_...
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...
Nothing can be more interesting than what the Lord JESUS hath here said. And no form of words can be more decisive to mark the godly man from the hypocrite. I only detain the Reader to observe, how ve...
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...
_AVOIDING THE WAY OF THE MANY_ ‘Enter ye in at the strait gate,’ etc. Matthew 7:13 Our Lord here gives us a general caution against the way of the many in religion. It is not enough to think as oth...
13._Enter in by the strait gate _As nothing is more opposed to the flesh than the doctrine of Christ, no man will ever make great proficiency in it who has not learned to confine his senses and feelin...
There are two things connected with the presence of the multitude, Matthew 5:1. First, the time required that the Lord should give a true idea of the character of His kingdom, since already He drew th...
ENTER YE IN AT THE STRAIT GATE,.... By the "strait gate" is meant Christ himself; who elsewhere calls himself "the door", John 10:7 as he is into the church below, and into all the ordinances and pri...
Enter ye in at the strait gate: for wide _is_ the gate, and broad _is_ the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat: Ver. 13. _Enter ye in at the strait gate_] Our Savi...
_Enter ye in at the strait gate_ The gate of true conversion, of self-denial, mortification, and universal holiness; the gate in at which few, comparatively speaking, are inclined to enter. “How strai...
THE CONCLUSION OF THE SERMON. The two ways:...
ENTER YE IN AT THE STRAIT GATE, FOR WIDE IS THE GATE, AND BROAD IS THE WAY, THAT LEADETH TO DESTRUCTION, AND MANY THERE BE WHICH GO IN THEREAT;...
Simple honesty will understand these first five verses without difficulty. The word "judge" is used in various different ways in Scripture. Believers are told to "judge" what Paul says (1 Corinthians...
12-14 Christ came to teach us, not only what we are to know and believe, but what we are to do; not only toward God, but toward men; not only toward those of our party and persuasion, but toward men...
SEE POOLE ON "MATTHEW 7:14"....
Clement of Alexandria Stromata Book IV For they have heard in the commandment that "the broad and wide way leadeth to destruction, and many there are who go in by it."[40] Tertullian Against Marcion...
Matthew 7:13 Enter G1525 (G5628) by G1223 narrow G4728 gate G4439 for G3754 wide G4116 gate G4439 and...
EXHORTATION TO CHOOSE THE RIGHT WAY AND PRODUCE GOOD FRUIT BY FULL OBEDIENCE TO HIS WORDS SO AS TO ENTER INTO LIFE AND AVOID DESTRUCTION (7:13-27). We now move on to the application part of the Sermon...
THE TWO WAYS (7:13-14). Jesus commences His closing exhortation by setting before them a choice as to which way they will take in the future. His words reveal that He is very much aware that among the...
CONNECTION AND CONTENTS. The exposition of the requirements of ‘the law and the prophets' just given, was far beyond the low morality of the scribes and Pharisees, and men might easily be tempted by t...
Matthew 7:13. ENTER YE IN BY, OR THROUGH, THE NARROW GATE. The ‘gate' is mentioned first; the way afterwards. It is the entrance gate at the beginning of the journey of life (the way), not the gate of...
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...
BY THE NARROW GATE (δια της στενης πυλης). The Authorized Version "at the strait gate" misled those who did not distinguish between "strait" and "straight." The figure of the Two Ways had a wide cir...
Matthew 7:13 There are only two ways the broad and the narrow. Along one or other of these has every mortal pilgrim gone. By one or other of these is every living man travelling now. I. Look first at...
Matthew 7:13. _Enter ye in at the strait gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat: because strait is the gate, and narrow is...
While we are reading, let us also be adoring at the same time, for the. words of Christ have a gracious divinity about them; they are infinite; they are omnipotent. There is a kind of life in them; a...
Matthew 7:1. _Judge not, that ye be not judged._ You are not called to judge; you are not qualified to judge: «God is the Judge: he putteth down one, and setteth up another.» There is much better wor...
Matthew 7:1. _Judge not, that ye be not judged. For with what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged: and with what measure ye mete it shall be measured to you again._ Some people are of a censorious...
Matthew 7:7. _Ask, and it shall be given you;_ He that will not ask for it deserves to go without it. Have you ever asked for it? If not, whose fault is it that you have it not? Matthew 7:7. _Seek,...
Matthew 7:13. _Enter ye in at the strait gate._ It is very unpopular. The great ones will recommend to you great liberality and breadth; but enter yet in at the strait gate. Matthew 7:13. For wide i...
CONTENTS: Sermon on the Mount, continued. Encouragement to prayer. The two ways. Warnings against false teachers. Danger of profession without faith. The two foundations. CHARACTERS: God, Jesus. CONC...
Matthew 7:1. _Judge not, that ye be not judged._ This refers to private and censorious reproaches of others. We must judge nothing before the time. It is better that ten bad men pass for innocent, tha...
13-14. GO IN THROUGH THE NARROW GATE. The key thought of the entire lesson is the Kingdom of heaven and its requirements. "Go in" means into the Kingdom of heaven. Nearly every town in Palestine was e...
_Enter ye in at the strait gate._ THE STRAIT GATE NOT A SHUT GATE I. The faithfulness of a holy God. God has told us the way is difficult. It is against nature. II. The tenderness of a merciful fat...
THE STRAIT GATE Enter ye in at the strait gate. Matthew 7:13 (AV). Have you ever noticed that if a story is told of someone who has performed a very difficult task, ever so many young people want to...
MATTHEW—NOTE ON MATTHEW 7:13 NARROW GATE. The way to eternal life is through Jesus alone (see note on Acts 4:12). DESTRUCTION. Eternal punishment and separation from God.
CHAPTER 7 _Judge not_, rashly and malignantly, _that ye_, &c. Christ does not here prohibit the public judgments of magistrates, by which they condemn the guilty and absolve the innocent, for this is...
_CRITICAL NOTES_ Matthew 7:13. DESTRUCTION.—The word implies, not annihilation, but waste (Matthew 26:8; Mark 14:4), perdition, _i.e_. the loss of all that makes existence precious. I question whether...
EXPOSITION MATTHEW 7:1 (2) As anxiety about the things of this life hinders us Godwards (Matthew 6:19), so does censoriousness manwards (Matthew 7:1), our Lord thus tacitly op
MATTHEW 7:1-29 I believe that it goes without saying that Jesus Christ was certainly the greatest teacher who ever lived and it is interesting to study his teaching habits. And He used the method of d...
1 John 5:19; 1 Peter 4:17; 1 Peter 4:18; 2 Corinthians 4:4;...
Strait gate [σ τ ε ν η ς π υ λ η ς]. Rev., narrow. A remarkable parallel to this passage occurs in the "Pinax" or "Tablet" of Cebes, a writer contemporary with Socrates. In this, human life, with its...
THE SERMON ON THE MOUNT (CONTINUED) Matthew 7:1 INTRODUCTORY WORDS 1. A command. God not only requests but definitely commands us, that we should not judge one another. There is probably no sin qui...
The strait gate — The holiness described in the foregoing chapters. And this is the narrow way. Wide is the gate, and many there are that go in through it — They need not seek for this; they come to i...
Observe here, 1. That every man is. traveller in. certain way. 2. That there are but two ways in which the race of mankind can travel; the one strait and narrow, that leads to life and salvation; t...