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Mat 6:2. Μὴ σαλπίσης ἔμπροσθέν σου, do not sound a trumpet before thee) This affected and insolent ostentation of actually sounding a trumpet is not inconsistent with the practices of hypocrites among the Jews of that age: cf. Mat 6:5; Mat 6:16. The poor would be easily summoned by a trumpet: hypocrisy, therefore, employs it as a means of display.-οἱ ὑποκριταὶ, the hypocrites) Hypocrisy is the combination of actual vice with apparent virtue, by means of which a man deceives either himself or others.-ἀμήν, assuredly) our Lord [by virtue of His essential and proper divinity] knows the secrets of the Divine counsels.-ἀπέχουσι τὸν μισθὸν αὐτῶν, they have their reward[248]) An example of metonymy of the antecedent for the consequent, i.e. they will not receive any reward hereafter at the hands of their Heavenly Father; see Mat 6:1.
[248] Which consists in the praise of men.-B. G. V.