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VER. 16.

MATT. V. 16.

Οὕτω λαμψάτω τὸ φῶς ὑμῶν ἔμπροσθεν τῶν ἀνθρώπων, ὅπως ἴδωσιν ὑμῶν τὰ καλὰ ἔργα, καὶ δοξάσωσι τὸν πατέρα ὑμῶν τὸν ἐν τοῖς οὐρανοῖς.

a Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and bglorify your Father which is din heaven. But the path of the just is as the shining light, that shineth more and more unto the perfect day, Prov. iv. 18. Herein is my Father glorified, that ye bear much fruit; so shall ye be my disciples, John xv. 8. Ye have not chosen me, but I have chosen you, and ordained you, that ye should go and bring forth fruit, and that your fruit should remain, 16. The night is far spent, the day is at hand: let us therefore cast off the works of darkness, and let us put on the armour of light. Let us walk honestly, as in the day; not in rioting and drunkenness, not in chambering and wantonness, not in strife and envying. But put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make not provision for the flesh, to fulfil the lusts thereof, Rom. xiii. 12-14. Providing for honest things, not only in the sight of the Lord, but also in the sight of men, 2 Cor. viii. 21. Be ye therefore followers of God, as dear children; and walk in love, as Christ also hath loved us, and hath given himself for us an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweet-smelling savour, Eph. v. 1, 2. Ye were sometimes darkness, but now are ye light in the Lord: walk as children of light: (for the fruit of the Spirit is in all goodness and righteousness and truth ;) Proving what is acceptable unto the Lord. And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove them, 8-11. See then that ye walk circumspectly, not as fools, but as wise, 15. Do all things without murmurings and disputings: that ye may be blameless and harmless, the sons of God, without rebuke, in the midst of a crooked and perverse nation, among whom ye shine as lights in the world, Phil. ii. 14, 15. Brethren, be followers together of me, and mark them which walk so as ye have us for an ensample.For our conversation is in heaven; from whence also we look for the

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Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ, iii. 17-20. Let your moderation be known unto all men. The Lord is at hand, iv. 5. Those things, which ye

have both learned, and received, and heard, and seen in me, do, 9. Put on therefore, as the elect of God,

holy and beloved, bowels of mercies, kindness, humbleness of mind, meekness, long-suffering; forbearing one another, and forgiving one another, if any man have a quarrel against any : even as Christ forgave you, so also do ye. And above all these things put on charity, which is the bond of perfectness, Col. iii. 12-14. Walk in wisdom toward them that are without, redeeming the time. Let your speech he alway with grace, seasoned with salt, that ye may know how ye ought to answer every man, iv. 5, 6. Walk worthy of God, who hath called you unto his kingdom and glory, 1 Thess. ii. 12. We are not of the night, nor of darkness. Therefore let us not sleep, as do others; but let us watch and be sober, v.5, 6. Let no man despise thy youth; but be thou an example of the believers, in word, in conversation, in charity, in spirit, in faith, in purity. This is a faithful saying, and these things I will that thou affirm constantly, that they which have believed in God might be careful to maintain good works. These things are good and profitable unto men, Tit. iii. 8. Who is a wise man and endued with knowledge among you? let him shew out of a good conversation his works with meekness of wisdom, James iii. 13. Wherefore gird up the loins of your mind, be sober, and hope to the end for the grace that is to be brought unto you at the revelation of Jesus Christ; As obedient children, not fashioning yourselves according to the former lusts in your ignorance: but as he which hath called you is holy, so be ye holy in all manner of conversation, 1 Pet. i. 13-15. But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should shew forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvellous light, ii. 9. The end of all things is at hand: be ye therefore sober, and watch unto prayer. And above all things have fervent charity among

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MATT. V. 16.

yourselves, iv. 7, 8. This then is the message which we have heard of him, and declare unto you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all. If we say that we have fellowship with him, and walk in darkness, we lie, and do not the truth: but if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin, 1 John i. 5-7. b Call upon me in the day of trouble: I will deliver thee, and thou shalt glorify me, Ps. 1. 15. Whoso offereth praise glorifieth me, 23. And immediately he arose, took up the bed, and went forth before them all; insomuch that they were all amazed, and glorified God, saying, We never saw it on this fashion, Mark ii. 12. And they were all amazed, and they glorified God, and were filled with fear, saying, We have seen strange things to day, Luke v. 26. Now when the centurion saw what was done, he glorified God, saying, Certainly this was a righteous man, xxiii. 47. Herein is my Father glorified, that ye bear much fruit, John xv. 8. This spake he, signifying by what death he should glorify God, xxi. 19. When they heard these things, they held their peace, and glorified God, saying, Then hath God also to the Gentiles granted repentance unto life, Acts xi. 18. Ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God's, 1 Cor. vi. 20. And they glorified God in me, Gal. i. 24. When he shall come to be glorified in his saints, and to be admired in all them that believe, 2 Thess. i. 10. If any man speak, let him speak as the oracles of God; if any man minister, let him do it as of the ability which God giveth: that God in all things may be glorified through Jesus Christ, to whom be praise and dominion for ever and ever. Amen, 1 Pet. iv. 11. If ye be reproached for the name of Christ, happy are ye; for the spirit of glory and of God resteth upon you on their part he is evil spoken of, but on your part he is glorified, 14.

That ye may be the children of your Father which is in heaven, Matt. v. 45. Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is

A. D. 31. perfect, 48. After this manner therefore pray ye: Our Father which art in heaven, vi. 9. Call no man your Father upon the earth: for one is your Father which is in heaven, xxiii. 9. Do ye thus requite the LORD, O foolish people and unwise? is not he thy father that hath bought thee? hath he not made thee, and established thee? Deut. xxxii. 6. He shall cry unto me, Thou art my father, my God, and the rock of my salvation, Ps. lxxxix. 26. Doubtless thou art our father, though Abraham be ignorant of us, and Israel acknowledge us not: thou, O LORD, art our father, our redeemer; thy name is from everlasting, Isa. lxiii. 16. But now, O LORD, thou art our father; we are the clay, and thou our potter; and we all are the work of thy hand, lxiv. 8. A son honoureth his father, and a servant his master: If then I be a father, where is mine honour? Mal. i. 6. Have we not all one Father? hath not one God created us? ii. 10. Your

Father knoweth that ye have need of these things, Luke xii. 30. Fear not, little flock; for it is your father's good pleasure to give you the kingdom, 32. Go to my brethren, and say unto them, I ascend unto my Father, and your Father; and to my God, and your God, John xx. 17. Grace to you and peace from God our Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ, Rom. i. 7. For ye have not received the Spirit of bondage again to fear; but ye have received the Spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father, viii. 15. Grace be unto you, and peace, from God our Father, and from the Lord Jesus Christ, 1 Cor. i. 3. I will receive you and will be a Father unto you, and ye shall be my sons and daughters, saith the Lord Almighty, 2 Cor. vi. 17, 18. Grace be to you, and peace from God the Father, and from our Lord Jesus Christ, Gal. i. 3. And because ye are sons, God hath sent forth the Spirit of his Son into your hearts, crying, Abba, Father, iv. 6. Grace be to you, and peace, from God our Father, and from the Lord Jesus Christ, Eph. i. 2. One God and Father of all, who is above all, and through all, and in you all, iv. 6. Grace be unto you, and peace, from God our Father, and from the

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MATT. V. 16, 17.

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his sanctuary; from heaven did the LORD behold the earth, cii. 19. Thus saith the LORD, the heaven is my throne, and the earth is my footstool, Isa. lxvi. 1. I saw in the visions of my head upon my bed, and, behold, a watcher and an holy one came down from heaven, Dan. iv. 13. For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven, 1 Thess. iv. xvi. The Holy Ghost sent down from heaven 1 Pet. i. 12. Now Jerusalem, which cometh down out of heaven from my God, Rev. iii. 12. And fire came down from God out of heaven, xx. 9. And shewed me that great city, the holy Jerusalem, descending out of heaven from God, xxi. 10.

VER. 17.

Μὴ νομίσητε ὅτι ἦλθον καταλῦσαι τον νόμον, ἢ τοὺς προφήτας· οὐκ ἦλθον καταλῦσαι, ἀλλὰ πληρῶσαι.

aThink not that I am come to destroy

the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil.

Lord Jesus Christ, Phil. i. 2. Grace be unto you, and peace, from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ, Col. i. 2. Grace be unto you, and peace, from God our Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ, 1 Thess. i. 1. In the sight of God and our Father, 3. Now God himself and our Father, And our Lord Jesus Christ, direct our way unto you, iii. 11. To the end he may stablish your hearts unblameable in holiness before God, even our Father, at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ with all his saints, 13. Paul, and Silvanus, and Timotheus, unto the church of the Thessalonians in God our Father and the LordJesus Christ: grace unto you, and peace, from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ, 2 Thess. i. 1, 2. Now our Lord Jesus Christ himself, and God, even our Father, which hath loved us, and hath given us everlasting consolation and good hope through grace, comfort your hearts, and stablish you in every good word and work, ii. 16, 17. Behold, what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we a Thou shalt love the Lord thy God should be called the sons of God: with all thy heart, and with all thy therefore the world knoweth us not, soul, and with all thy mind. This is because it knew him not, 1 John iii. 1. the first and great commandment. Then the LORD rained upon Sodom And the second is like unto it, Thou and upon Gomorrah brimstone and shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. fire from the LORD out of heaven, On these two commandments hang Gen. xix. 24. Out of heaven he made all the law and the prophets, Matt. thee to hear his voice, that he might xxii. 37-40. Therefore all things instruct thee, Deut. iv. 36. But will whatsoever ye would that men should God indeed dwell on the earth? be- do to you, do ye even so to them: for hold, the heaven and heaven of hea- this is the law and the prophets, vii. vens cannot contain thee; how much 12. It is easier for heaven and earth less this house that I have builded? to pass, than one tittle of the law to 1 Kings viii. 27. Hear thou their fail, Luke xvi. 17. Do we then make prayer and their supplication in hea- void the law through faith? God forven thy dwelling place, 49. The bid: yea, we establish the law, Rom. LORD looked down from heaven upon iii. 31. What the law could not do, the children of men, Psal. xiv. 2. in that it was weak through the flesh, Now know I that the LORD saveth his God, sending his own Son in the likeanointed; he will hear him from his ness of sinful flesh, and for sin, conholy heaven with the saving strength demned sin in the flesh: That the of his right hand, xx. 6. The LORD righteousness of the law might be fullooketh from heaven; he beholdeth all filled in us, who walk not after the the sons of men, xxxiii. 13. He shall flesh, but after the Spirit, viii. 3, 4. send from heaven, and save me from For Christ is the end of the law for the reproach of him that would swal- righteousness to every one that below me up. lvii. 3. Return, we believeth, x. 4. We are the circumciseech thee, O God of hosts: look down from heaven, and behold, and visit this vine, lxxx. 14. For he hath looked down from the height of

sion, which worship God in the spirit, and rejoice in Christ Jesus, and have no confidence in the flesh, Phil. iii. 3. And ye are complete in him, which

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MATT. V. 17-19.

is the head of all principality and power: In whom also ye are circumcised with the circumcision made without hands, in putting off the body of the sins of the flesh by the circumcision of Christ, Col. ii. 10, 11. If ye fulfil the royal law according to the Scripture, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself, ye do well: But if ye | have respect to persons, ye commit sin, and are convinced of the law as transgressors. For whosoever shall keep the whole law, and yet offend in one point, he is guilty of all. For he that said, Do not commit adultery, said also, Do not kill. Now if thou commit no adultery, yet if thou kill, thou art become a transgressor of the law, James ii. 8-11.

b And Jesus answering said unto him, suffer it to be so now; for thus it becometh us to fulfil all righteousness, Matt. iii. 15. Sacrifice and offering thou didst not desire; mine ears hast thou opened: burnt-offering and sin-offering hast thou not required. Then said I, Lo, I come: in the volume of the book it is written of me, I delight to do thy will, O my God: yea, thy law is within my heart, Psal. xl. 6-8. For such an High Priest became us, who is holy, harmless, undefiled, separate from sinners, Heb. vii.

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Christ also suffered for us, learing us an example, that ye should follow his steps: who did no sin, neither was guile found in his mouth, 1 Pet. ii. 21, 22,

VER. 18.

̓Αμὴν γὰρ λέγω ὑμῖν, ἕως ἂν παρέλθη ὁ οὐρανὸς καὶ ἡ γῆ, ἰῶτα ἓν, ἢ μία κεραία οὐ μὴ παρέλθῃ ἀπὸ τοῦ νόμου, ἕως ἂν πάντα γένηται.

For verily I say unto you, a Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, b till all be fulfilled.

a Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my word shall not pass away, Matt.xxiv. 35. Of old hast thou laid the foundation of the earth: and the heavens are the work of thy hands. They shall perish, but thou shalt endure: yea, all of them shall wax old like a garment; as a vesture shalt thou change them, and they shall be changed, Ps. cii. 25, 26. and Heb. i. 10-12. The heavens shall vanish

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b For ever, O LORD, thy word is settled in heaven, Ps. cxix. 89. Concerning thy testimonies, I have known of old that thou hast founded them for ever, 152. The grass withereth, the flower fadeth: but the word of our God shall stand for ever, Isa. xl. 8. The word of the Lord endureth for ever, 1 Pet. i. 25.

VER. 19.

“Ὃς ἐὰν οὖν λύση μίαν τῶν ἐντολῶν τού των, τῶν ἐλαχίστων, καὶ διδάξῃ οὕτω τοὺς ἀνθρώπους, ἐλάχιστος κληθήσεται ἐν τῇ βασιλείᾳ τῶν οὐρανῶν· ὃς δ ̓ ἂν ποιήσῃ καὶ didán, ouros méyaç xλndñoetai iv tỷ Caσιλείᾳ τῶν οὐρανῶν.

Whosoever therefore shall break one of these least commandments, and shall teach men so, dhe shall be called & the least in f the kingdom of heaven : 8 but whosoever shall do and teach them, h the same shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven.

a Cursed be he that confirmeth not all the words of this law to do them, Deut. xxvii. 26. Then shall I not be ashamed, when I have respect unto all thy commandments, Ps. cxix. 6. Therefore I esteem all thy precepts concerning all things to be right; and I hate every false way, 128. And Jesus answering said unto him, Suffer it to be so now: for thus it becometh us to fulfil all righteousness, Matt. iii. 15. For as many as are of the works of the law, are under the curse: for it is written, Cursed is every one that continueth not in all things which are

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written in the book of the law to do them, Gal. iii. 10. For whosoever shall keep the whole law, and yet offend in one point, he is guilty of all. For he that said, Do not commit adultery, said also, Do not kill. Now if thou commit no adultery, yet if thou kill, thou art become a transgressor of the law, Jam. ii. 10, 11.

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| But I have a few things against thee,
because thou hast there them that
hold the doctrine of Balaam, who
taught Balac to cast a stumbling-block
before the children of Israel, to eat
things sacrificed unto idols, and to
commit fornication. So hast thou also
them that hold the doctrine of the Ni-
colaitanes, which thing I hate, Rev. ii.
14, 15. I have a few things against
thee, because thou sufferest that wo-
man Jezebel, which calleth herself a
prophetess, to teach and to seduce my
servants to commit fornication, and to
eat things sacrificed unto idols, 20.
d See parallels on clause 2. ver. 9.

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Verily I say unto you, Among them that are born of women there hath not risen a greater than John the Baptist: notwithstanding he that is least in the kingdom of heaven is greater than he, Matt. xi. 11. Wherefore the LORD God of Israel saith, I said indeed that thy house, and the house of thy fathers, should walk before me for ever: but now the LORD saith, Be it far from me; for them that honour me I will honour, and they that despise me shall be lightly esteemed, 1 Sam. ii. 30. For I am the least of the apostles, that am not meet to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God, 1 Cor. xv. 9.

f See parallels on clause 2. ver. 2. chap. iii.

b What thing soever I command you, observe to do it: thou shalt not add thereto, nor diminish from it, Deut. xii. 52. Woe unto you, Scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye pay tithe of mint and anise and cummin, and have omitted the weightier matters of the law, judgment, mercy, and faith these ought ye to have done, and not to leave the other undone, Matt. xxiii. 23. But woe unto you, Pharisees! for ye tithe mint and rue and all manner of herbs, and pass over judgment and the love of God: these ought ye to have done, and not to leave the other undone, Luke xi. 42. c He answered and said unto them, Why do ye also transgress the commandment of God by your tradition? For God commanded, saying, Honour thy father and mother: and, He that curseth father or mother, let him die the death. But ye say, Whosoever shall say to his father or his mother, It is a gift, by whatsoever thou mightest be profited by me; and honour not his father or his mother, he shall be free. Teaching them to observe all Thus have ye made the commandment things whatsoever I have commanded of God of none effect by your tradition, you: and, lo, I am with you alway, Matt. xv. 3-6. But ye are departed even unto the end of the world, Matt. out of the way; ye have caused many xxviii. 20. What shall we say then? to stumble at the law; ye have corShall we continue in sin, that grace rupted the covenant of Levi, saith the may abound? God forbid. How shall LORD of hosts, Mal. ii. 8. And not we, that are dead to sin, live any rather, (as we be slanderously report- longer therein? Know ye not, that so ed, and as some affirm that we say,) many of us as were baptized into JeLet us do evil, that good may come ? sus Christ were baptized into his death? whose damnation is just, Rom. iii. 8. Therefore we are buried with him by If any man teach otherwise, and con- baptism into death: that like as Christ sent not to wholesome words, even the was raised up from the dead by the words of our Lord Jesus Christ, and glory of the Father, even so we also to the doctrine which is according to should walk in newness of life, Rom. godliness; he is proud, knowing no- vi. 1-4. Likewise reckon ye also thing, but doting about questions and yourselves to be dead indeed unto sin, strifes of words, whereof cometh envy, but alive unto God through Jesus strife, railings, evil surmisings, per- Christ our Lord. Let not sin thereverse disputings of men of corrupt fore reign in your mortal body, that minds, and destitute of the truth, sup-ye should obey it in the lusts thereof. posing that gain is godliness: from Neither yield ye your members as insuch withdraw thyself, 1 Tim. vi. 3-5. struments of unrighteousness unto sin:

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