“ Ye blind guides, which strain at a gnat, and swallow a camel. ”
Which strain at a gnat ... - This is a proverb. There is, however, a mistranslation or misprint here, which makes the verse unmeaning. “To strain” at a “gnat” conveys no sense. It should have bee...
Seven Woes. Seven is a sacred number and often used in Mt., as in OT ( cf. especially Isaiah 5) and Rev. The first three treat of Pharisaic teaching, the last three of Pharisaic character, the f...
which, &c. Figure of speech Paroemia. App-6. strain . habitually filter out. Greek. diulizo. Occ- only here. at. . mistake perpetuated in all editions of the Authorized Version. All "th...
24. Blind guides. This is s proverbial saying, by which he beautifully describes the affected scrupulousness of hypocrites about trifling matters; for they utterly shrink from very small fau...
Ye blind guides, which strain at a gnat, and swallow a camel. Blind guides, which strain at a gnat, and swallow a camel. - This clause should be thus translated: Ye strain out the gnat, but ye swal...
Ye pay tithe, &c.— 5. The fifth woe is denounced for their superstition. They observed the ceremonial precepts of the law with all possible exactness, while they utterly neglected the eternal...
Ye blind guides, which strain at a gnat, and swallow a camel. Ye blind guides, which strain at a gnat. The proper rendering-as in the older English translations, and perhaps our own as it cam...
Denunciation of the Pharisees 1-36. Final denunciation of the Scribes and Pharisees. The other synoptists insert in this place a brief utterance directed against the scribes ( Mark 12:38-40 ; Luk...
Strain at a gnat. — Better, as in Tyndale’s and other earlier versions, strain out. It is sometimes said that the present rendering of the Authorised version is but the perpetuation of a printer’...
6; Matthew 22:1-46 ; Matthew 23:1-39 Chapter 17 Conflict in the Temple - Matthew 21:18-46 - Matthew 22:1-46 - Matthew 23:1-39 IT had been written that the Lord should suddenly come to...
Woes for the False-hearted Matthew 23:13-26 These repeated woes may be translated, Alas for you! Our Lord with unfailing accuracy indicates the inevitable doom which such conduct as that of t...
This chapter is one of the most sublime and awful in the whole inspired volume. It records the last words of Jesus to the crowds. He summed up, He reached His verdict, He pronounced sentence. It is...
"But woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye shut up the kingdom of heaven against men: for ye neither go in yourselves, neither suffer ye them that are entering to go in. (14) Woe un...
Ye blind guides ,.... As in Matthew 23:16 who strain at a gnat and swallow a camel : the Syriac and Persic versions read the words in the plural number, gnats and camels. The Jews had a law, whi...
Ye blind guides, which strain at a gnat, and swallow a camel. Ver. 24. Which strain at a gnat, &c. ] A proverbial speech, warranting the lawful use of such expressions for illustration of a...
Wo unto you, for ye pay tithe , &c. Here we have the fifth wo, which is denounced for their superstition. They observed the ceremonial precepts of the law with all possible exactness, while they...
The Lord now turns to speak to the entire crowd, His disciples being mentioned as included. He warns them against the hypocrisy of scribes and Pharisees, for they sat in Moses' seat as enforcers of t...
The Crimes of the Pharisees. 13 But woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye shut up the kingdom of heaven against m...
It is a proverbial expression used amongst them, against such as would pretend a great niceness and scrupulosity about, and zeal for, little things, but in matters of much higher concern and moment w...
Jesus Passes Judgment On The Scribes And Pharisees And Describes the Devastations Coming On The World Prior To His Coming Again And The Judgment That Will Follow (23:1-25). Having made clear that...
CRITICAL NOTES Matthew 23:16 . Gold of the temple. —The exact meaning of this expression is uncertain; but the probability is that it refers to money offered as a gift to God, to which the scrib...
Matthew 23:2 . Sit in Moses' seat. The sanhedrim had seventy one chairs of gold, or rather gilt with gold. The council which sat at Alexandria had also chairs of gold. The highpriest was the presi...
And have omitted the weightier matters of the law. Sins of omission 1. The very earliest cause of nearly all sin lies in omitting something which we ought to have done. Perhaps you left your ro...
EXPOSITION Matthew 23:1-40 Denunciation of the scribes and Pharisees, and lamentation over Jerusalem which followed their guidance to her own destruction. (Peculiar to St. Matthew.) Ma...
The fifth woe:
John 18:28 ; John 18:40 ; Luke 6:7-10 ; Matthew 15:2-6 ; Matthew 19:24 ; Matthew 27:6-8 ; Matthew 7:4
A Double-Minded Man Matthew 23:23-33 INTRODUCTORY WORDS "A double minded man is unstable in all his days." We have in Matthew 23:1-39 , a striking illustration of these words. 1. We have pi...
Ye blind guides, who teach others to do as you do yourselves, to strain out a gnat — From the liquor they are going to drink! and swallow a camel — It is strange, that glaring false print, strain a...