マタイの福音書 18:28-34 JCB

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Matthew 18:29

Fell down at his feet - This clause is wanting in several ancient MSS., versions, and fathers. Several printed editions also have omitted it; Griesbach has left it out of the text. Pay thee all - Παντα , all, is omitted by a multitude of MSS., versions, and fathers. read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Matthew 18:30

And he would not, etc. - To the unmerciful, God will show no mercy; this is an eternal purpose of the Lord, which never can be changed. God teaches us what to do to a fellow-sinner, by what He does to us. Our fellow-servant's debt to us, and ours to God, are as one hundred denarii to ten thousand talents! When we humble ourselves before him, God freely forgives us all this mighty sum! And shall we exact from our brother recompense for the most trifling faults? Reader, if thou art of this... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Matthew 18:31

His fellow-servants saw what was done - An act of this kind is so dishonorable to all the followers of Christ, and to the spirit of his Gospel, that through the respect they owe to their Lord and Master, and through the concern they feel for the prosperity of his cause, they are obliged to plead against it at the throne of God. read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Matthew 18:32

His lord, after that he had called him - Alas! how shall he appear! Confounded. What shall he answer? He is speechless! read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Matthew 18:33

Shouldest not thou also have had compassion - Ουκ εδει και σε , Did it not become thee also? What a cutting reproach! It became Me to show mercy, when thou didst earnestly entreat me, because I am Merciful, It became thee also to have shown mercy, because thou wert so deep in debt thyself, and hadst obtained mercy. read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Matthew 18:34

Delivered him to the tormentors - Not only continued captivity is here intended, but the tortures to be endured in it. If a person was suspected of fraud, as there was reason for in such a case as that mentioned here, he was put to very cruel tortures among the Asiatics, to induce him to confess. In the punishments of China, a great variety of these appear; and probably there is an allusion to such torments in this place. Before, he and all that he had, were only to be sold. Now, as he has... read more

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Matthew 18:31

Verse 31 31.When his fellow-servants saw what was done. Though we ought not to search for mystery in these words — because they contain nothing but what nature teaches, and what we learn by daily experience — we ought to know that the men who live among us will be so many witnesses against us before God; for it is impossible but that cruelty shall excite in them displeasure and hatred, more especially, since every man is afraid that what he sees done to others will fall upon his own head. As to... read more

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Matthew 18:34

Verse 34 34.Delivered him to the tormentors, till he should pay all that he owed. The Papists are very ridiculous in endeavoring to light the fire of purgatory by the word till; for it is certain that Christ here points out not temporal death, by which the judgment of God may be satisfied, but eternal death. read more

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