“ And love the uppermost rooms at feasts, and the chief seats in the synagogues, ”
The uppermost rooms at feasts - The word “rooms,” here, by no means expresses the meaning of the original. It would be correctly rendered the uppermost “places or couches” at feasts. To understan...
And love the uppermost rooms at feasts, and the chief seats in the (e) synagogues, (e) When assemblies and councils are gathered together.
Warnings to the People and the Disciples. Matthew 23:2 f. Loisy regards this as an interpolation (by a Judaising redactor) out of harmony with the attack that follows. Holtzmann thinks it is Mt...
love . are fond of. Greek. phileo. App-135. uppermost rooms . the first place, as in next clause. at . in. Greek. en . App-104. chief seats . first seats, as in preceding clause.
6 And love the first places at entertainments.. He proves, by evident signs, that no zeal for piety exists in the scribes, but that they are wholly devoted to ambition. For to seek the...
And love the uppermost rooms at feasts, and the chief seats in the synagogues,
All their works they do, &c.— "Any good action which they happen to perform, is vitiated by the principle from which it proceeds. They do it with a view to popular applause, and not from a rega...
And love the uppermost rooms at feasts, and the chief seats in the synagogues, And love the uppermost rooms. The word "room" is now obsolete in the sense here intended. It should be 'the uppe...
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...
The uppermost rooms. — Better, the first places, the word “room,” which had that meaning at the time when the English version was made, having now become identical with “chamber.” Strictly speaki...
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...
Humbling the Self-exalted Matthew 23:1-12 These words were addressed to the disciples and the crowds that had gathered around. The Jewish religious leaders divorced morality and religion, and i...
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...
"Then spake Jesus to the multitude, and to his disciples, (2) Saying, The scribes and the Pharisees sit in Moses' seat: (3) All therefore whatsoever they bid you observe, that observe and do; but do...
And love the uppermost rooms at feasts ,.... Or the first and chief places to sit, or lie down on, at ordinary meals, and especially at large entertainments, where the great ones sat, as in 1 Samue...
And love the uppermost rooms at feasts, and the chief seats in the synagogues, Ver. 6. And love the uppermost rooms ] Which is a singular vanity, and yet hath bred greatest contestation in the Ch...
All their works they do to be seen of men They have the praise of men in view in all their actions. Hence they are constant and abundant in those duties of religion which come under the observation...
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 Scribes and Pharisees Condemned; Cautions against Pride. 1 Then spake Jesus to the multitude, and to his disciples, 2 Saying,...
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Exhortation to His Disciples and The Crowds Not To Be Like the Scribes and Pharisees, But to Be Doers and Not Hearers Only, and Rather to Be Humble and Lowly, Treating Each Other As Being As Good If...
CRITICAL NOTES Matthew 23:1 . Then spake Jesus. —The day of grace is over for the leaders of the people; but for the people themselves there may still be hope; so the Lord of the temple turns to...
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...
The scribes and the Pharisees sit in Moses’ seat. Christ’s reproaches of Pharisees There must be some just, reasonable, and great cause of our Lord’s indignation, and this we find was an accumu...
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...
Their passion for honor from men:
3 John 1:9 ; James 2:1-4 ; Luke 11:43 ; Luke 14:7-11 ; Luke 20:46 ; Luke 20:47 ; Mark 12:38 ; Mark 12:39 ; Matthew 20:21 ; Proverbs 25:6 ; Proverbs 25:7 ; Romans 12:10