Matthew 5:37 - Exposition

Your communication . Similarly, the Authorized Version in Ephesians 4:29 , in archaic usage for "talk." Yea, yea; Nay, nay . Christ permits as far as the repetition of the asseveration. The adoption here by a few authorities of the phrase in James 5:12 ("Let your yea be yea; and your nay, nay," τὸ ναὶ ναὶ κ .τ.λ. .)is unsuitable; for here the question is not of truthfulness, but of fervency in asseveration. Whatsoever is more than these ; "that which is over and above these" (Rheims). There is a superfluity ( περισσόν ) in more fervent asseverations, which has its origin ἐκ τοῦ πονηροῖ . Cometh of evil . So the Revised Version margin, "as in verse 39; 6:13.' Revised Version, is of the evil one ( vide Matthew 6:13 , note; and of. 1 John 3:12 ).