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 # Mt 22:23
    \\The same day came to him the Sadducees.\\
    See note on "Mt 3:7"
 They were materialists.
    \\Who say that there is no resurrection.\\ They denied the
 immortality of the soul. See
 # Ac 23:8
 (PNT 122)
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 # Mt 22:24
    \\Moses said.\\ See
 # De 25:5
 (PNT 122)
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 # Mt 22:28
    \\Whose wife shall she be of the seven?\\ They state a
 fictitious case that they suppose will make the doctrine of the
 resurrection ridiculous.
 (PNT 122)
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 # Mt 22:29
    \\Ye do err.\\ "Not knowing the Scriptures, nor the power of
 God."
 (PNT 122)
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 # Mt 22:30
    \\Are as the angels of God.\\ The physical relations of
 earthly marriage do not belong to spiritual beings. The saints
 when raised are like the angels. This does not deny personal
 intercourse or spiritual relationships, but the existence of
 fleshly ties.
 (PNT 122)
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 # Mt 22:31
    \\As concerning the resurrection of the dead.\\ The Sadducees
 doubted some of the prophetic books, but accepted Moses; hence,
 the Lord appeals to Moses to show that he taught future
 existence, or \\the resurrection\\, which is the sense in which
 the latter phrase is used.
 (PNT 122)
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 # Mt 22:32
    \\I am the God of Abraham.\\ See
 # Ex 3:6
 God does not say, "I was," but "I \\am\\ the God of Abraham, and
 of Isaac, and of Jacob." The present tense shows that he is
 still the God of the departed patriarchs, and that they are
 still in existence.
    \\God is not the God of the dead, but of the living.\\ Queen
 Victoria is not the queen of Bacon, Shakespeare and Ben Jonson,
 but only of her living subjects. The Saviour teaches that the
 soul is resurrected when it leaves the body, and that there is
 no unconscious state between death and the final resurrection of
 the body.
 (PNT 122-123)
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 # Mt 22:34
    \\The Pharisees . . . were assembled about him.\\ Compare
 # Mr 12:28-34 Lu 10:25-28
 (PNT 123)
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 # Mt 22:35
    \\A lawyer.\\ An expounder of the law of Moses. A scribe.
 # Mr 12:32
    \\Tempting him.\\ Trying him.
 (PNT 123)
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 # Mt 22:36
    \\Which [is] the great commandment?\\ This was a question
 which, with some others, divided the Jewish teachers into rival
 schools, and was a constant bone of contention--one of "those
 strivings about the law," against which Paul warns Titus.
 # Tit 3:9
    The Jews divided their commandments into greater and lesser,
 but were not agreed in particulars. Some pronounced the law of
 circumcision the greater; others, that of sacrifices, or
 ablutions, or phylacteries. The Talmud reckoned the positive
 laws of Moses at 248, the negative at 365, in all 613. To keep
 so many laws, said the Jews, is an angel's work. So they had
 much question which was the great commandment, so that they
 might keep it in lieu of keeping the whole.
 (PNT 123)
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 # Mt 22:37
    \\Thou shalt love the Lord thy God,\\ etc. Freely quoted from
 # De 6:5
 A demand for supreme love for God.
 (PNT 123)
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 # Mt 22:38
    \\This is the first. and great\\ Great, because it embraces
 all others; first, in that it precedes the second that he is
 about to name. He who loves God supremely cannot live in
 disobedience to him.
 (PNT 123)
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 # Mt 22:39
    \\The second [is] like.\\ The first command sums up what man
 owes to God; the second, what he owes to his fellow-man.
    \\Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.\\ See
 # Le 19:18
 One who loves God supremely, will not live in disobedience; one
 who loves his neighbour as himself, will seek the welfare of
 those around him.
 (PNT 123)
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 # Mt 22:41
    \\While the Pharisees were assembled.\\ Compare
 # Mr 12:35-37 Lu 20:21-44
 (PNT 123)
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 # Mt 22:42
    \\What think ye of Christ?\\ The great question still.
    \\Whose son is he?\\ They reply, the "Son of David," a
 correct but incomplete answer, as he shows by their own
 Scriptures.
 (PNT 123)
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 # Mt 22:43
    \\Call him Lord.\\ David then, by inspiration, calls his own
 Son his Lord, which shows that he is more than David's Son.
 (PNT 123)
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 # Mt 22:44
    \\The LORD.\\ Jehovah.
    \\Said to my Lord.\\ The Christ. Found in
 # Ps 110:1
 This psalm is quoted also in
 # Ac 2:34 1Co 15:25 Heb 1:13 5:6 7:17,21 10:13
 (PNT 124)
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 # Mt 22:45
    \\How is he his son?\\ The answer is not given here, but
 plain. Christ, the Son of David, according to earthly descent,
 is the Son of God, God manifest in the flesh.
 (PNT 124)
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 # Mt 22:46
    \\No man was able,\\ etc. Henceforth the Pharisees argued no
 more, but only sought his death.
 (PNT 124)
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 # Mt 23:1
  SUMMARY OF MATTHEW 23
  \\The Last Appeal to Israel\\

  The Scribes and Pharisees in Moses' Seat
  The Burdens They Imposed
  Their Eagerness for the Praise of Men
  Religious Titles
  Religious Masters
  The Hypocrisy of the Scribes and Pharisees
  Straining Out the Great and Swallowing the Camel
  Whited Sepulchres
  Building the Tombs of the Murdered Prophets
  The Lamentation Over Jerusalem

    \\Jesus spoke to the multitudes, and to his disciples.\\ This
 discourse, delivered in the courts of the temple on the Tuesday
 before the Lord was crucified, has never been surpassed in
 indignant rebuke, withering denunciation, and tearful sorrow
 over the coming fate of sinner who would not be saved. It
 contains Christ's last words to the Jewish nation.
    The contest had been growing fiercer, the opposition of his
 enemies was more bitter, their plots against his life were
 working, their utter perverseness was fully manifested, the time
 for tender appeal has passed by, and the Lord turns upon the
 "whited sepulchres," the "generation of vipers," the
 hypocritical pretenders, in a philippic that we believe has
 never been equalled.
 # 23:33,27
    But even in the midst of it, like a rift of blue sky in the
 fearful storm-cloud, his love and pity shine forth with
 wonderful beauty in the pathetic exclamation of
 # 23:37
 Only a part of the discourse is found in
 # Mr 12:38-40
 some similar sayings occur in
 # Lu 11:39-52
 and a reference to its occurs in
 # Lu 20:45-47
 (PNT 124)
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 # Mt 23:2
    \\The scribes and Pharisees.\\ Associated because almost all
 the scribes were of the sect of Pharisees. The scribes, the
 Jewish scholars, the theologians and lawyers, would naturally be
 of the religious sect.
    \\Sit in the seat of Moses.\\ Are the expounders of the law
 of Moses.
 (PNT 124)
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 # Mt 23:3
    \\Whatever they bid you observe, [that] that observe and
 \\do.\\ While in Moses' seat, presenting the law of Moses. He
 has elsewhere taught that the traditions they added were to be
 rejected.
 # 15:3-6
    \\Do not ye according their works.\\ Do not follow their
 examples. The law of Moses was still in force, for the Christian
 dispensation was not ushered in until Christ died, and hence was
 still to be obeyed, but the wicked example of its teachers was
 to be rejected.
 (PNT 124)
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 # Mt 23:4
    \\They bind heavy burdens.\\ By the traditions they added to
 the laws. The law itself was a heavy yoke,
 # Ac 15:10
 but the traditions so strenuously insisted on added to this
 yoke.
 See note on "Mt 15:1"
 See note on "Mt 15:2"
 See note on "Mt 15:3"
 See note on "Mt 15:4"
 See note on "Mt 15:5"
 See note on "Mt 15:6"
 (PNT 124)
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 # Mt 23:5
    \\To be seen by men.\\ Instead of touching the burdens with
 their little finger, by an effort to keep the law in its spirit,
 their whole object was to appear holy before men.
    \\Make broad their phylacteries.\\ A band was drawn over the
 forehead, or around the arm, and to this was attached a small
 calfskin box, in which were placed passages of Scripture. For
 this they quoted
 # Ex 13:16
 The passages worn so ostentatiously were
 # Ex 12:2-10 13:11-21 De 6:4-9 11:18-21
 To make them "broad" was to enlarge the case contain the
 Scripture, so as to make it more conspicuous.
    \\Enlarge the borders.\\ The fringes worn to remind them "of
 doing all the commandments," as enjoined in
 # Nu 15:38
 To enlarge these would make them more conspicuous.
 (PNT 125)
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 # Mt 23:6
    \\Love the uppermost places at feasts.\\ Rather, "seats." The
 highest seats at a feast were the places of honour.
    \\Chief seats in the synagogues.\\ The places where the
 elders sat with their faces to the congregation. They loved the
 pre-eminence.
 (PNT 125)
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 # Mt 23:7
    \\And greetings in the markets.\\ Being greeted by titles of
 honour in the public resorts.
    \\Rabbi.\\ A term which meant the same as Doctor of Divinity
 now. There were three degrees, Rab, Rabbi, and Rabboni. The last
 is the greatest, and means, literally, "My great teacher."
 (PNT 125)
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 # Mt 23:8
    \\Be not ye called Rabbi.\\ This prohibits all similar
 religious titles now. It certainly forbids such as the
 corresponding title of D.D.
    \\For one is your Master.\\ Christ is the common teacher of
 all, and all others are disciples on the same level. The spirit
 of this command forbids all ecclesiastical titles of honour.
 (PNT 125)
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 # Mt 23:9
    \\Call no [man] your father.\\ Another honourary title. The
 scribes delighted to be called \\Abba\\, father. So the
 priests of the Roman Catholic Church. So do all who welcome such
 honourary titles as Rev., Right Rev., Lord Bishop, etc. These are
 all forbidden. No apostle was ever so called.
 (PNT 125)
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 # Mt 23:10
    \\Master.\\ Also an honorary title. All such are to be
 avoided in the church.
 (PNT 125)
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 # Mt 23:11
    \\He that is greatest.\\ Instead of seeking chief seats at
 feasts or in the synagogues, and titles that will exalt him
 above others, let him seek to become the servant of all. Compare
 # 20:26
 (PNT 125)
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 # Mt 23:12
    \\Whoever shall exalt himself,\\ etc. A universal rule in the
 kingdom of God. Humility is an essential element of progress in
 it.
 (PNT 125)
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 # Mt 23:13
    \\Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees.\\ Eight woes are given.
 They have been contrasted with the nine Beatitudes of
 # 5:3-11
    \\Hypocrites.\\ Literally, actors.
    \\Ye shut up the kingdom of heaven.\\ By false teaching that
 prevents men from accepting Christ. Both their example and false
 teaching shut the door.
 (PNT 125)
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 # Mt 23:14
    \\Ye devour widows' houses.\\ Devour their property under
 holy pretences.
 (PNT 126)
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 # Mt 23:15
    \\Ye travel sea and land.\\ Spare no effort.
    \\To make one proselyte.\\ Induce Gentiles to become
 circumcised and to keep the Jewish religion. This is the sense
 in which "proselyte" was then always used.
    \\Twofold more the child of hell.\\ Usually the proselytes of
 such teachers went to even more sectarian extremes than their
 teachers.
 (PNT 126)
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 # Mt 23:16-17
    \\[Ye] blind guides.\\ Blind, because they closed their eyes,
 yet professing to be leaders.
    \\Swear by the temple.\\ A common oath among the Jews.
    \\Swear by the gold of the temple.\\ In their foolish
 distinctions they regarded this as a binding oath. If the gold
 had any sacredness, it was because the temple, God's house, made
 it so.
 (PNT 126)
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 # Mt 23:18-20
    \\Swear by the altar.\\ That of the temple, the only altar
 known in Israel.
    \\Sweareth by the gift.\\ The offering placed on the altar.
 (PNT 126)
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 # Mt 23:21-22
    \\Swear by the temple.\\ Oaths that did they not call
 binding, Jesus traces to God himself. Compare
 # 5:35
 The meaning is that all oaths are by God. There are no
 distinctions.
 (PNT 126)
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 # Mt 23:23
    \\Ye pay tithe of mint and anise and cummin.\\ Insignificant
 garden herbs. The Jews were bidden to pay tithes of the fruits
 of the field and of trees.
 # Le 27:30
 The Pharisees were scrupulous in paying tithes of garden herbs
 that were almost valueless, but neglected much more important
 duties.
 (PNT 126)
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 # Mt 23:24
    \\Strain out a gnat, and swallow a camel.\\ A forcible image
 of those who are very conscientious over small, and careless of
 great, matters.
 (PNT 127)
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 # Mt 23:25-26
    \\Ye make clean the outside,\\ etc. The figure is plain. Its
 application rebukes scrupulous care of outside forms, while
 neglecting to have the heart pure.
 (PNT 127)