Mateus 23

Mateus 23

Morgan - No amount of argument can rob these words of their terrible import. They stand upon the page for evermore speaking to us of ‘the wrath of the Lamb.'” Gilbrant points out that God sets limits to sin (cf. Genesis 15:16); when its measure is full, judgment will begin (Matthew 23:34-36; cf. 1 Thessalonians 2:15, 16). (Complete Biblical Library) Matthew 23:33 “You serpents, you brood of vipers, how will you escape the sentence of hell? KJV Matthew 23:33 Ye serpents, ye generation of vipers, how can ye escape the damnation of hell? BGT Matthew 23:33 ὄφεις, γεννήματα ἐχιδνῶν, πῶς φύγητε ἀπὸ τῆς κρίσεως τῆς γεέννης; NET Matthew 23:33 You snakes, you offspring of vipers! How will you escape being condemned to hell? CSB Matthew 23:33 "Snakes! Brood of vipers! How can you escape being condemned to hell? ESV Matthew 23:33 You serpents, you brood of vipers, how are you to escape being sentenced to hell? NIV Matthew 23:33 "You snakes! You brood of vipers! How will you escape being condemned to hell? NLT Matthew 23:33 Snakes! Sons of vipers! How will you escape the judgment of hell? YLT Matthew 23:33 'Serpents! brood of vipers! how may ye escape from the judgment of the gehenna? MIT Matthew 23:33 Snakes! Brood of poisonous vipers! How will you escape getting what you deserve in hell? NJB Matthew 23:33 'You serpents, brood of vipers, how can you escape being condemned to hell? NRS Matthew 23:33 You snakes, you brood of vipers! How can you escape being sentenced to hell? serpents: Mt 3:7 Mt 12:34 Mt 21:34,35 Ge 3:15 Ps 58:3-5 Isa 57:3,4 Lu 3:7 Jn 8:44 2Co 11:3 Rev 12:9 how: Mt 23:14 Heb 2:3 Heb 10:29 Heb 12:25 Related Passages: Matthew 3:7+ But when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming for baptism, he said to them, “You brood of vipers, who warned you to flee from the wrath to come? Matthew 12:34+ “You brood of vipers, how can you, being evil, speak what is good? For the mouth speaks out of that which fills the heart. Genesis 3:15+ And I will put enmity Between you (THE SERPENT SATAN) and the woman, And between your seed and her seed; He shall bruise you on the head, And you shall bruise him on the heel.” Hebrews 2:3+ how will we escape if we neglect so great a salvation? After it was at the first spoken through the Lord, it was confirmed to us by those who heard, Hebrews 10:29+ How much severer punishment do you think he will deserve who has trampled under foot the Son of God, and has regarded as unclean the blood of the covenant by which he was sanctified, and has insulted the Spirit of grace? Hebrews 12:25+ See (present imperative see our need to depend on the Holy Spirit to obey) to it that you do not refuse Him who is speaking. For if those did not escape when they refused him who warned them on earth, much less will we escape who turn away from Him who warns from heaven. VIPERS THEMSELVES ARE "STUNG!" You serpents (ophis), you brood (gennema) of vipers (echidna) - Using this epithet would have stung these arrogant serpentine ecclesiastics! It would have been excoriating a word used to express strong disapproval of and derives from the idea of to "flay, strip off the hide!" Vipers was an apt comparison of the religious leaders to the poisonous snakes common in Palestine which were both deceptive and deadly, because the teaching (works righteousness, legalism, etc) of these men would poison men's hearts and minds and damn both themselves and their hearers to an eternal hell. In a bit of bitter irony, the vipers themselves were stung! Jesus saw through these hypocrites to the sinister, "serpentine" character of their hearts. This reminds me of Paul's warning to Timothy that (in the last days - 2 Ti 3:1+) " evil men and impostors will proceed from bad to worse, deceiving and being deceived." (2Ti 3:13+) The Pharisees were deceivers and were themselves deceived! Evans - Scripture makes figurative use of poisonous snakes and vipers (Dt. 32:33; Isa 59:5; Ps. 140:3) with reference to the wicked. Truth be told, all of us in our natural (unregenerate) state have "the poison of asps (picture) under (our) lips." (Ro 3:13b+, cf Ps 58:3,4) It is also interesting that various politicians and other groups were called “vipers” or “brood of vipers” in Greco-Roman sources (e.g., Aeschylus, Choephori 994; Euripides, Ion 1262). Zodhiates - The products of sin and hypocrisy are equivalent to the poisons of venomous snakes that prey on the unsuspecting. (Exegetical Commentary on Matthew)