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Mat_6:1. Connection: However ( προσέχετε δέ , be upon your guard), to those doctrines and prescriptions regarding the true δικαιοσύνη , I must add a warning with reference to the practice of it ( ποιεῖν , 1Jn_3:7). This warning, stated in general terms in Mat_6:1, is then specially applied in Mat_6:2 to almsgiving, in Mat_6:5 to prayer, and in Mat_6:16 to fasting. Accordingly δικαιοσύνη is righteousness generally (Mat_5:6; Mat_5:10; Mat_5:20), and not benevolence specially, which, besides, it never means, not even in 2Co_9:10, any more than öø÷ä (not even in Pro_10:2; Pro_11:4; Dan_4:24), which in the LXX., and that more frequently by way of interpretation, is rendered by ἐλεημοσύνη , in which the δικαιοσύνη manifests itself by acts of charity; comp. Tob_2:14; Tob_12:9.
On εἰ δὲ μήγε , after which we are here to supply προσέχετε τὴν δικαιοσύν . ὑμ . μὴ ποιεῖν , etc., see on 2Co_11:16.
μισθὸν … οὐρανοῖς ] See on Mat_5:12; Mat_5:46.