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Mat 11:29. Ἄρατε, take ye) To take the yoke of Christ upon us, is to give oneself up wholly to His discipline.-ὅτι, κ.τ.λ., because, etc.) Hence it appears why we should willingly learn from Jesus. Our meekness and lowliness are consequent upon our so doing.-πρᾶός εἰμι καὶ ταπεινὸς, κ.τ.λ., I am meek and lowly, etc.) Although His language is fearful in Mat 11:20; Mat 11:24. Meekness produces easiness of yoke; lowliness of heart, lightness of burden. The Pharisees were austere and proud. Condescension (Demissio) is a much to be admired virtue of God, which is described as fully as possible, although it is not named in Scripture, by one word; whose likeness, humility, is found in the saints; whose opposite, pride, in Satan and the wicked. For it is condescension, that that highest Majesty should have deigned at all to make creatures, and especially men, however contemptible, however mean, and to look on them without disdain, and to unite them to Itself. And the Son of God in a most conspicuous manner manifested His humility in our flesh.-See Psa 34:7; Psa 113:6; Luk 1:48; Luk 1:52-53; Luk 12:37; Luk 22:27; Joh 12:26; Joh 13:14; Php 2:8; Heb 11:16.-τῇ καρδίᾳ, in heart) Lowly does not by itself express a quality of the heart, which meek does; therefore in heart refers rather to lowly than to meek. The word καρδίᾳ completes the expression: see Rom 2:5.-καὶ, and) καὶ is introduced as in κἀγὼ, and I, in Mat 11:28. Thus the LXX. in Jer 6:16, καὶ εὑρήσετε ἀγνισμὸν ταῖς ψυχαῖς ὑμῶν and ye shall find purification[547] for your souls. Rest flows from the heart of Christ into our souls; see Mat 11:29.-εὑρήσετε ἀνάπαυσιν, ye shall find rest) as yet unknown to you, but sought for and desired.
[547] In E. V. it is, “And ye shall find rest unto your souls.”-(I. B.)