John Bengel Commentary - Matthew 11:23 - 11:23

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John Bengel Commentary - Matthew 11:23 - 11:23


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Mat 11:23. Καπερναοὺμ, Capernaum) This city had been more highly blessed than Chorazin and Bethsaida, but from its sin became more miserable. It is therefore compared with Sodom, not with Tyre and Sidon.-ἓως τοῦ οὐρανοῦ, even unto heaven) For the Lord from heaven had come to dwell there, and in bringing Himself, had brought heaven thither.[537]-ὑψωθεῖσα, exalted) In the sight of God, of Christ, and of the angels.-ᾅδου, hell) Which is lowest in the nature of things.-ἔμειναν ἄν, they would have remained) Instead of having been destroyed. Great is the effect of the conditional form.[538] The same verb occurs in Joh 21:22.

[537] For specimens of this exaltation, see Joh 2:12; Joh 4:47; Mat 4:13 to Mat 13:53; Joh 6:24; Mat 17:24.-Harm., p. 301.

[538] For they, in that case, either would not have perpetrated the enormities which they did, or else would have repented of having committed them: in which case they would not have been destroyed, either then or subsequently.-V. g.