A26981:1089
A paraphrase on the New Testament with notes, doctrinal and practical, by plainness and…A paraphrase on the New Testament with notes, doctrinal and practical, by plainess and…
A paraphrase on the New Testament with notes, doctrinal and practical, by plainness and brevity fitted to the use of religious families, in their daily reading of the Scriptures : and of the younger and poorer sort of scholars and ministers, who want fuller helps : with an advertisement of difficulties in the Revelations / by Richard Baxter.A paraphrase on the New Testament with notes, doctrinal and practical, by plainess and brevity fitted to the use of religious families, in their daily reading of the Scriptures : and of the younger and poorer sort of scholars and ministers, who want fuller helps : with an advertisement of difficulties in the Revelations / by Richard Baxter.
London: printed for B. Simmons, 1685
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
17. Ye fools and blind: for whether is greater, the gold or the temple that sanctifieth the gold.
17. Is not the Temple consecrated to God before its Gold, which is but an accident to the Temple.
18. And whoever shall swear by the altar, it is nothing; but whoever shall swear by the gift that is upon it, he is guilty. 19. Ye fools and blind: for whether is greater, the gift, or the altar that sanctifieth the gift?
18, 19. Is not the Altar consecrated before the Gift, on which the gift must be offered if consecrated.
Qu. Doth not Christ here cross his own Law, by calling them Fools and Blind? Answ. No: It is railing and reproach by venting hurtful passion which he forbids. But for a Friend or a Preacher to convince men of the folly of sinning, and reprove it, is a duty.