“ Ye serpents, ye generation of vipers, how can ye escape the damnation of hell? ”
Ye serpents - This name is given to them on account of their pretending to be pious, and very much devoted to God, but being secretly evil, At the heart, with all their pretensions, they were fil...
A Last Warning. With Matthew 23:33 cf. the Baptist's words, Matthew 3:7 . Matthew 23:34 . Luke 11:49 *. Matthew 23:35 . Abel: Genesis 4:8 . Zachariah: 2 Chronicles 24:20 ff. The...
generation . offspring, or brood. Plural as in Matthew 3:7 ; Matthew 12:34 . and Luke 3:7 . escape . escape from (Greek. apo) . App-104.
33. Offspring of vipers. After having demonstrated that the scribes are not only base enemies of sound doctrine, and wicked corrupters of the worship of God, but likewise deadly plagues o...
Ye serpents, ye generation of vipers, how can ye escape the damnation of hell? Ye serpents, ye generation of vipers - What a terrible stroke! - Ye are serpents, and the offspring of serpents. Thi...
Ye make clean the outside, &c.— 6. The sixth woe is denounced for their hypocrisy: they were at great pains to appear virtuous, and to have a decent external conduct, while they neglected to...
Ye serpents, ye generation of vipers, how can ye escape the damnation of hell? Ye serpents, ye generation of vipers, how can ye escape the damnation of hell? In thus, at the end of his His mi...
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...
Ye generation of vipers. — Better, as in Matthew 3:7 , brood, or progeny of vipers. The word of rebuke which had come before from the lips of the Baptist, comes now, with even more intense kee...
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...
Judgment and Lament Matthew 23:27-39 True goodness recognizes and rewards good in the living; while the evil-minded cannot, or will not, believe that the people whom they meet daily are purely...
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 servants, ye generation of vipers ,.... The latter of these names, John the Baptist calls the Sadducees and Pharisees by, in Matthew 3:7 and Christ, in Matthew 12:34 both express their craft...
Ye serpents, ye generation of vipers, how can ye escape the damnation of hell? Ver. 33. Ye serpents ] Serpentum tot sunt venena, quot genera, saith Isidore, tot pernicics quot species, to...
Fill ye up then the measure of your fathers' wickedness Ye may now be as wicked as they: a word of permission, not of command: as if he had said, I contend with you no longer: I leave you to yourse...
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...
Ver. 31-33. You (saith our Lord) confess that you are lineally descended from those who killed the prophets: you have not only their blood communicated to you, but their spirit; your behaviours and c...
Words in the Temple (23:1-39). a Exhortation to His disciples and the crowds not to be like the Scribes and Pharisees, but to be doers and not hearers only. In contrast to the Scribes and Pharise...
CRITICAL NOTES Matthew 23:29 . Build the tombs, etc. —See R.V. A portion of the temple offerings were devoted to this purpose. Matthew 23:31 . The children .—You inherit their wickedness in c...
Matthew 23:29-31 . Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! because ye build the tombs of the prophets, and garnish the sepulchers of the righteous, And say, If we had been in the days of o...
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...
How can ye escape the damnation of hell? - The difficulty of escaping the damnation of hell I. What your situation actually is. 1. You are even now under sentence of condemnation. 2. You...
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 eighth woe:
2 Corinthians 11:3 ; Genesis 3:15 ; Hebrews 10:29 ; Hebrews 12:25 ; Hebrews 2:3 ; Isaiah 57:3 ; Isaiah 57:4 ; John 8:44 ; Luke 3:7 ; Matthew 23:14 ; Matthew 12:34 ; Matthew 21:34 ; Matth...
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 serpents — Our Lord having now lost all hope of reclaiming these, speaks so as to affright others from the like sins.