Isaiah, Chapter 1, verses 10, 16-20
10 God Has Had Enough, 18 “Let Us Reason”16 17 Learn to do good; Seek justice, Reprove the ruthless, gDefend the orphan, Plead for the widow. | |
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Matthew, Chapter 23, verses 1-12
1 Pharisaism Exposed1 Then Jesus spoke to the crowds and to His disciples, 2 saying: “The scribes and the Pharisees have seated themselves in the chair of Moses; 3 therefore all that they tell you, do and observe, but do not do according to their deeds; for they say things and do not do them. 4 They tie up heavy burdens and lay them on men’s shoulders, but they themselves are unwilling to move them with so much as a finger. 5 But they do all their deeds to be noticed by men; for they broaden theiraphylacteries and lengthen the tassels of their garments. 6 They love the place of honor at banquets and the chief seats in the synagogues, 7 and respectful greetings in the market places, and being called Rabbi by men. 8 But do not be called Rabbi; for One is your Teacher, and you are all brothers. 9 Do not call anyone on earth your father; for One is your Father, He who is in heaven. 10 Do not be calledbleaders; for One is your Leader, that is, Christ. 11 But the greatest among you shall be your servant. 12 Whoever exalts himself shall be humbled; and whoever humbles himself shall be exalted. | 7 8 |
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23:1 Then - Leaving all converse with his adversaries, whom he now left to the hardness of their hearts.
23:2 The scribes sit in the chair of Moses - That is, read and expound the law of Moses, and are their appointed teachers.
23:3 All things therefore - Which they read out of the law, and enforce therefrom.
23:4 Luk 11:46.
23:5 Their phylacteries - The Jews, understanding those words literally, It shall he as a token upon thy hand, and as frontlets between thine eyes, Exo 13:16.And thou shalt bind these words for a sign upon thine hand, and they shall be as frontlets between thine eyes, Deu 6:8;used to wear little scrolls of paper or parchment, bound on their wrist and foreheads, on which several texts of Scripture were writ. These they supposed, as a kind of charm, would preserve them from danger. And hence they seem to have been called phylacteries, or preservatives. The fringes of their garments - Which God had enjoined them towear, to remind them of doing all the commandments, Num 15:38.These, as well as their phylacteries, the Pharisees affected to wear broader and larger than other men. Mar 12:38.
23:8 The Jewish rabbis were also called father and master, by their several disciples, whom they required,
- To believe implicitly what they affirmed, without asking any farther reason;
- To obey implicitly what they enjoined, without seeking farther authority.
23:9 See note ... Mat 23:8.
23:10 See note ... Mat 23:8.
23:11 Mat 20:26.
23:12 Whosoever shall exalt himself shall be humbled, and he that shall humble himself shall he exalted - It is observable that no one sentence of our Lord's is so often repeated as this: it occurs, with scarce any variation, at least ten times in the evangelists. Luk 14:11; Luk 18:14.
1 Judah's sins, Isa 1:1-4.
Her judgments, Isa 1:5-9.
Her worship is rejected, Isa 1:10-15.
Exhortations to repentance, promises of grace and mercy, threatenings of sore judgments, and complaints by reason of their backsliding, Isa 1:16-31.
1:10 Of Sodom - So called for their resemblance of them in wickedness.The law - The message which I am now to deliver to you from God, your great lawgiver.