Cambridge Greek Testament for Schools and Colleges - Matthew 23:16 - 23:16

Online Resource Library

Commentary Index | Return to PrayerRequest.com | Download

Cambridge Greek Testament for Schools and Colleges - Matthew 23:16 - 23:16


(Show All Books | Show All Chapters)

This Chapter Verse Commentaries:

16. ὀμόσῃ ἐν τῷ ναῷ. In classical Greek the thing on which the oath is taken is in the accusative or genitive with κατά. (τι or κατά τινος.) ναός, the ‘holy place,’ not as in A.V. the temple.

ἐν τῷ χρυσῷ τοῦ ναοῦ, i.e. the offerings made to the Temple, called ‘Corban,’ or ‘devoted;’ the use of that word made an oath binding, see ch. Mat 15:5. Tacitus (Hist. Mat 23:8) says of the Temple at Jerusalem: ‘illic immensæ opulentiæ templum.’