And if ye salute your brethren only, what do ye more than others? do not even the publicans so?
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Gill's Exposition
And if you salute your brethren only,.... This does not mean salutation by embraces or kisses, but by words, asking of each other's welfare, and wishing prosperity and happiness to one another.
"The…
Barnes' Notes
And if you salute your brethren ... - The word “salute” here means to show the customary tokens of civility, or to treat with the common marks of friendship. See the notes at Luk 10:4. The Saviour…
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
salute your brethren only See Mat 5:5. The Hebrew salutation was Shalom(peace).
The higher MS. authority gives "Gentiles" or "heathen," instead of "publicans."