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Mat 18:18. Ὅσα ἐὰν, whatsoever) i.e. all things with regard to which the power of binding and loosing holds good, especially offences.[832]-δήσητε, ye shall bind) see the end of Mat 18:17.-λύσητε, ye shall loose) see the end of Mat 18:15. There is an intimate connection between the retention of a private[833] and that of a public offence, and so also in the case of remission. See Mat 18:15-35. Our Lord teaches that His disciples can bind and loose the sins of their neighbours in His name; see Mat 18:20. Neither is it totally void of effect when they, even for their own sake, through anger, bind and hold the offences of their brethren.
[832] Christ gave this power to His disciples then, and not till then, when, having had experience of the gracious will of our Heavenly Father (Mat 18:14), they had recognised Himself, i.e. Jesus, as the Son of GOD (ch. Mat 16:16), and had received the Holy Spirit, Joh 20:22.-V. g.
[833] Privatæ, private, i.e. not one privately committed, but one against the individual: communis public, i.e. not one committed in public, but one of a public character.-(I. B.)