Matthew 23:24 Ye blind guides, which strain at a gnat, and swallow a camel. - Free Bible Online

Matthew 23:24 "You blind guides, who strain out a gnat and swallow a camel!


      24. Ye blind guides, which strain at a gnat--The proper rendering--as in the older English translations, and perhaps our own as it came from the translators' hands--evidently is, "strain out." It was the custom, says TRENCH, of the stricter Jews to strain their wine, vinegar, and other potables through linen or gauze, lest unawares they should drink down some little unclean insect therein and thus transgress (Le 11:20, 23, 41, 42) --just as the Buddhists do now in Ceylon and Hindustan--and to this custom of theirs our Lord here refers.
      and swallow a camel--the largest animal the Jews knew, as the "gnat" was the smallest; both were by the law unclean.

JFB.


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Brief Summary: In the foregoing chapter, we had our Saviour's discourses with the scribes and Pharisees; here we have his discourse concerning them, or rather against them. I. He allows their office (v. 2, v. 3). II. He warns his disciples not to imitate their hypocrisy and pride (v. 4-12). III. He exhibits a charge against them for divers high crimes and misdemeanors, corrupting the law, opposing the gospel, and treacherous dealing both with God and man; and to each article he prefixes a woe (v. 13-33). IV. He passes sentence upon Jerusalem, and foretels the ruin of the city and temple, especially for the sin of persecution (v. 34-39). MHC

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