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MATTHEW 18:35 — KING JAMES VERSION 0
Matt 18:34Matt 19
“So likewise shall my heavenly Father do also unto you, if ye from your hearts forgive not every one his brother their trespasses.”
So also my heavenly Father will do to every one of you, if you do not forgive your brother from your heart. The application of the parable to the Community Discourse's forgiveness teaching: the heavenly Father will treat the unforgiving disciple as the king treated the unforgiving servant. The from your heart communicates that the forgiveness must be genuine — not merely verbal, not merely procedural, but from the heart. The Community Discourse that began with the question of who is greatest ends with the question of whether those who have been forgiven will forgive.

Church Fathers on Matthew 18:35

That none should think that the Lord had enjoined something great and burdensome in saying that we must forgive till seventy times seven, He adds a parable.

Chrysostom · 4th century

For it is customary with the Syrians, especially they of Palestine, to add a parable to what they speak; that what their hearers might not retain simply, and in itself, the instance and similitude may be the means of retaining.

Jerome · 4th century

30): The Son of God, as He is wisdom, righteousness, and truth, so is He a kingdom; not indeed any of those which are beneath, but all those which are above, reigning over those in whose senses reigns justice and the other virtues; these are made of heaven because they bear the image of the heavenly. This kingdom of heaven then, i.e. the Son of God, when He was made in the likeness of sinful flesh, was then like to a king, in uniting man to himself.

Origen · 3rd century · (vid. 1 Cor 1
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