![]() ![]() People believed that eyes were like windows that allowed light to enter the body and keep it in good health. To illustrate the results of right and wrong attitudes to material things, Jesus referred to a local belief about the results of good and bad eyesight. Those who set their hearts on material things are being disloyal to God, and guarantee bitter disappointment for themselves in the end ( Matthew 6:19-21). ![]() They should put God’s interests first and be generous in giving to others. People who come into the kingdom of God should not view the material things of earthly life as others view them. Concern about material things ( Matthew 6:19-34 Luke 12:22-34 ) Instead of, Is not the life more than, c., we should read, Of more value so the word πλειον is used in Numbers 22:15, and by the best Greek writers and in the same sense it is used in Matthew 21:37. It occurs again in Matthew 6:31, and there is no variation in any of the MSS. Griesbach has left it in the text with a note of doubtfulness. The clause what ye must eat, is omitted by two MSS., most of the ancient versions, and by many of the primitive fathers. Is not the life more than meat, and the body than raiment? Can he who gave us our body, and breathed into it the breath of life, before we could ask them from him, refuse us that which is necessary to preserve both, and when we ask it in humble confidence? The first is, the experience of greater benefits already received. In this and the following verses, our Lord lays down several reasons why men should not disquiet themselves about the wants of life, or concerning the future. If we labour without placing our confidence in our labour, but expect all from the blessing of God, we obey his will, co-operate with his providence, set the springs of it a-going on our behalf, and thus imitate Christ and his followers by a sedate care and an industrious confidence. On the other hand, to rely so much upon providence as not to use the very powers and faculties with which the Divine Being has endowed us, is to tempt God. To be anxiously careful concerning the means of subsistence is to lose all satisfaction and comfort in the things which God gives, and to act as a mere infidel. Prudent care is never forbidden by our Lord, but only that anxious distracting solicitude, which, by dividing the mind, and drawing it different ways, renders it utterly incapable of attending to any solemn or important concern. Bible renders it, be not bysy to your life. μεριμνα anxious solicitude, from μεριζειν τον νουν dividing or distracting the mind. Take no thought - Be not anxiously careful, μη μεριμνατε this is the proper meaning of the word. Therefore - δια τουτο, on this account viz., that ye may not serve mammon, but have unshaken confidence in God, I say unto you,. Dictionaries: Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Anxiety Body Food Nature Peter Poor Providence Sermon on the mount Work Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Anxiety Care Jesus Christ Life Providence of God Vanity Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Contentment Hutchinsonians Lord's Prayer Easton Bible Dictionary - Contentment Fausset Bible Dictionary - Ecclesiastes, the Book of Judas Iscariot Martha Pharisees Sacrifice Solomon Holman Bible Dictionary - Anxiety Birds Body Borrow Matthew, the Gospel of Providence Soul Wealth and Materialism Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Contentment Ethics Mss Peter, First Epistle of Providence Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Body (2) Care Children of God Covetousness Doctrines Dress (2) Eating and Drinking Eschatology (2) Food Good Gospel (2) Guest Ideal Ideas (Leading) Law of God Liberty (2) Life Light Logia Man (2) Matthew, Gospel According to Metaphors Nature and Natural Phenomena Organization (2) Perplexity Physical Poverty (2) Premeditation Property (2) Providence Quotations (2) Reality Redemption (2) Religious Experience Renunciation Retribution (2) Sermon on the Mount Simple, Simplicity Socialism Soul Trinity (2) Uniqueness Wealth (2) Winter People's Dictionary of the Bible - Kingdom of christ of heaven Kingdom of god Kingdom of heaven Obsolete or obscure words in the english av bible Wilson's Dictionary of Bible Types - Drink ![]()
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