26Verily I say unto thee, Thou shalt by no means come out thence, till thou hast paid the uttermost farthing.
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And his lord was wroth, and delivered him to the tormentors, till he should pay all that was due unto him.
I tell thee, thou shalt not depart thence, till thou hast paid the very last mite.
Who shall be punished with everlasting destruction from the presence of the Lord, and from the glory of his power;
For he shall have judgment without mercy, that hath shewed no mercy; and mercy rejoiceth against judgment.
Then shall he say also unto them on the left hand, Depart from me, ye cursed, into everlasting fire, prepared for the devil and his angels:
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 21-26)Christ having laid down these principles, that Moses and the prophets were still to be their rulers, but that the scribes and Pharisees were to be no longer their rulers, proceeds to expound the law in some particular instances, and to vindicate it from the corrupt glosses which those expositors had put upon it. He adds not any thing new, only limits and restrains some permissions which had been a…
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