For if ye love them which love you, what reward have ye? do not even the publicans the same?
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Gill's Exposition
For if ye love them which love you,.... That is, if ye only love such that love you; for that such who love should be loved again, is both natural and just: our Lord's meaning is not, that ye ought…
Barnes' Notes
What reward have ye? - The word “reward” seems to be used in the sense of “deserving of praise.” If you only love those that love you, you are selfish; it is not genuine love for the “character,” but…
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…
Cambridge Bible
publicans taxgatherers; not collectors of a regular tax fixed by government as with us, but men who farmed or contracted for the publicum(state revenue), hence called Publicani. At Rome the equestrian…
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