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Lay not up for yourselves treasures (mē thēsaurizete humin thēsaurous). Do not have this habit (mē and the present imperative). See note on Mat 2:11 for the word “treasure.” Here there is a play on the word, “treasure not for yourselves treasures.” Same play in Mat 2:20 with the cognate accusative. In both verses humin is dative of personal interest and is not reflexive, but the ordinary personal pronoun. Wycliff has it: “Do not treasure to you treasures.”
Break through (diorussousin). Literally “dig through.” Easy to do through the mud walls or sun-dried bricks. Today they can pierce steel safes that are no longer safe even if a foot thick. The Greeks called a burglar a “mud-digger” (toichoruchos).