40And if any man will sue thee at the law, and take away thy coat, let him have thy cloke also.
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And unto him that smiteth thee on the one cheek offer also the other; and him that taketh away thy cloke forbid not to take thy coat also.
Now therefore there is utterly a fault among you, because ye go to law one with another. Why do ye not rather take wrong? why do ye not rather suffer yourselves to be defrauded?
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 38-42)In these verses the law of retaliation is expounded, and in a manner repealed. Observe, I. What the Old-Testament permission was, in case of injury; and here the expression is only, Ye have heard that is has been said ; not, as before, concerning the commands of the decalogue, that it has been said by , or to, them of old time . It was a command, that every one should of necessity require such sat…
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