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Mat 3:2. Μετανοεῖτε, repent ye) A lovely word (see verses 8, 11), implying change your disposition, put on a disposition royal, heavenly, worthy the kingdom of heaven.[114] Thus Jesus Christ Himself, thus His apostles commenced their preaching: thus the Lord commanded John to write at the commencement of the Apocalypse.-ἡ βασιλεία, the kingdom) See Gnomon on ch. Mat 4:17.-τῶν οὐρανῶν, of the Heavens) expressed in the plural number agreeably with the Hebrew שמים.[115] This phrase ἡ βασιλεία τῶν οὐρανῶν, the kingdom of the Heavens,[116] is peculiar to Matthew, who employed it that he might cure the Jews, for whom he was writing, of the notion of an earthly kingdom.
[114] In the original, “regnum cœlorum,” “the kingdom of the heavens.”-See f. n. 3, infra.-(I. B.)
[115] See Gen 1:1., etc.-(I. B.)
[116] E. V., “The Kingdom of Heaven.” I have generally rendered it thus, as being a phrase more familiar to the English reader.-(I. B.)