Matthew 5:2

And he opened his mouth, and taught them, saying, AND HE OPENED HIS MOUTH - a solemn way of arousing the reader's attention, and preparing him for something weighty (; ; ) - "and taught them, saying,...

2._Opening his mouth. _This redundancy of expression ( πλεονασμὸς) partakes of the Hebrew idiom: for what would be faulty in other languages is frequent among the Hebrews, to say, _He opened his mouth, _instead of, _He began to speak. _Many look upon it as an emphatic mode of expression, employed to draw attention to any thing important and remarkable, either in a good or bad sense, which has been uttered: but as some passages of Scripture countenance an opposite view, I prefer the former exposition. I shall also dismiss the ingenious speculation of those, who give an allegorical turn to the fact of our Lord teaching his disciples on a mountain, as if it had been intended to teach them to elevate their minds far above worldly cares and employments. In ascending the mountain, his design rather was to seek a retreat, where he might obtain relaxation for himself and his disciples at a dista...

1,2 None will find happiness in this world or the next, who do not seek it from Christ by the rule of his word. He taught them what was the evil they should abhor, and what the good they should seek and abound in....

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. INTO A MOUNTAIN; Revised Version, _into the mountain _(εἰς τὸ ὄρος);_ i.e. _not any special mountain, but "the mountain nearest the place spoken of—the mountain near by" (Thayer); in contrast to any lower place, whether that was itself fairly high ground (as probably Luke 9:28) or the shore of the lake. The actual spot here referred to may have been far from, or, and more probably ...

AND HE OPENED HIS MOUTH,.... He spoke with a clear and strong voice, that all the people might hear him; and with great freedom, utterance, and cheerfulness, and things of the greatest moment and importance; AND TAUGHT THEM; not his disciples only, but the whole multitude, who heard him with astonishment; see Matthew 7:28. Some things in the following discourse are directed to the disciples in particular, and others regard the multitude in general....

Matthew 5:1. _And seeing the multitudes, he went up into a mountain:_ For convenience, and quietude, and to be out of the way of traffic, he went up into a mountain. Elevated doctrines would seem most at home on the high places of the earth. Matthew 5:1. _And when he was set,_ For that was the mode of Eastern teaching, Matthew 5:1. _His disciples came unto him:_ They made the inner ring around him, and others gathered around them. Matthew 5:2. _And he opened his mouth, and taught them,_ Chrysostom says that he taught them even when he did not open his

AND HE OPENED HIS MOUTH Having announced the kingdom of heaven as "at hand," the King, in Matthew 5-7, declares the principles of the kingdom. The Sermon on the Mount has a twofold application: (1) literally, to the kingdom. In this sense it gives the divine constitution for the righteous government of the earth. Whenever the kingdom of heaven is established on earth it will be according to that constitution, which may be regarded as an explanation of the word "righteousness" as used by the prophets in describing the kingdom (for example) (Isaiah 11:4); (Isaiah 32:1); (Daniel 9:24) In this sense the Sermon on the Mount is pure law, and transfers the offence from the overt act to the motive. ...

5. THE PROCLAMATION OF THE KING CONCERNING HIS KINGDOM. CHAPTER S 5-7 _ 1. The Characteristics of the heirs of the Kingdom.(Matthew 5:1 .) 2. The Confirmation of the Law and its Expansion.(Matthew 5:17 .)_ CHAPTER 5 In the closing of the last chapter we saw our Lord Jesus Christ surrounded by a great multitude of people, which followed Him and who were attracted by the King's presence, before whom the various diseases had to flee. If we turn to the eighth chapter we find the continuation of these scenes we had in the last half of the fourth chapter. Between these two Chapter s are three very important ones, which are as such found only in this Gospel. The contents of the fifth, sixth and seventh Chapter s are in the form of a continued discourse of our Lord, commonly called “t

MATTHEW 5:2. OPENED HIS MOUTH: a Semitic redundancy....

HE OPENED HIS MOUTH AND TAUGHT THEM. This is. formula indicating. solemn and authoritative utterance. The King who shall reign over the coming kingdom now opens his mouth to declare its principles. When the Lord opens his mouth we should open our ears and hearts. The whole discourse that follows,. "sermon that commands the admiration of all decent men, even rationalists and infidels," would not require more than thirty minutes for delivery, yet it has had more influence than any other discourse ever delivered upon the earth. Other teachers might profit by the Lord's brevity. Luther says to preachers: "Got up freshly, open your mouth widely, and get done quickly....