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Matthew 5:43

Matthew 5:43
Ye have heard that it hath been said, Thou shalt love thy neighbour, and hate thine enemy.

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Baptist theologian, 1697–1771

Gill's Exposition

Ye have heard that it hath been said,.... By, or to them of old time. This law has been delivered to them,

thou shalt love thy neighbour, with this appendage to it, or false gloss upon it,

and…

Presbyterian pastor, 1798–1870

Barnes' Notes

Ye have heard that it hath been said, Thou shalt love thy neighbor, and hate thine enemy - The command to love our neighbor was a law of God, Lev 19:18. That we must therefore hate our enemy was an…

Nonconformist minister, 1662–1714

Matthew Henry

Matthew 5:43-48

We have here, lastly, an exposition of that great fundamental law of the second table, Thou shalt love thy neighbour, which was the fulfilling of the law.

I. See here how this law was corrupted by the…

Academic commentary, 1882–1921

Cambridge Bible

(c) Love or Charity, 43 48.

43. Thou shalt love thy neighbour Lev 19:18, "Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself." The second clause does not occur in Levit., but was a Rabbinical inference.…