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Mat_5:42. A precept (in opposition to selfishness) which does not stand indeed in essential connection with what precedes, but which is still brought into connection with it through the natural connection of the thoughts. According to Ewald, who here lays weight (Jahrb. I. p. 132 f.) upon the number seven in the quotations of the O. T. laws, there must have stood after Mat_5:41 in the original collection of sayings the following words: ἠκούσατε , ὅτι ἐῤῥήθη · οὐ κλέψεις , ἀποδώσεις δὲ τὸ ἱμάτιον τῷ πτωχῷ · ἐγὼ δὲ λέγω ὑμῖν · τῷ αἰτοῦντι , and so on, and then, Mat_5:40. The command that is wanting was put together from Exo_20:15; Deu_24:12 f. A very thoughtful conjecture, which is followed by Holtzmann; but unnecessary, for this reason, that the contents and order of the sentences, Mat_5:40-42, attach themselves to one fundamental thought; and improbable, because not merely an omission, but also a transposition, is assumed, and because τῷ αἰτοῦντι , κ . τ . λ ., does not correspond to the prohibition of thieving as its fulfilment.
δανείς .] That Jesus did not think of lending out at interest, appears from Exo_22:24; Lev_25:37; Deu_15:7; Deu_23:20; Ewald, Alterthumer, p. 242 f. [E. T. 181].