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Mat_23:16. A new point, and one so peculiarly heinous that a somewhat larger portion of the denunciatory address is devoted to it.
ἐν τῷ ναῷ ] as in the Mischna we frequently meet with such expressions as: per habitaculum hoc, ãîòåï äåä . See Wetstein and Lightfoot.
ἐν τῷ χρυσῷ τοῦ ναοῦ ] by the gold which belongs to the temple, the ornaments, the vessels, perhaps also the gold in the sacred treasury (to which latter Jerome, Maldonatus, refer). We nowhere meet with any example of such swearing, and the subject of Corban (Mat_15:5) is foreign to our passage (Lightfoot), inasmuch as there is no question of vows in the present instance. For ἐν with ὀμνύειν , comp. on Mat_5:34.
οὐδέν ἐστιν ] it (the oath) is nothing, is of no consequence. It is not the person swearing who is the subject, but ὃς ἂν ὀμόσῃ , κ . τ . λ ., form an absolute nominative, as in Mat_7:24, Mat_10:14, Mat_13:12.
ὀφείλει ] is indebted, bound to keep the oath.