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ADULTERY IS THE MOST HEINOUS SIN IN THE
BIBLE
Says:
Rev. Prof. J. J. Kenez, D.Sc.
The Vessel of the Holy Spirit of God, the Creator of the Universe
Rev. Prof. J. J. Kenez, D.Sc.
The Vessel of the Holy Spirit of God, the Creator of the Universe
By way of practical simulation that brings
the message home to everyone, let us refresh our minds with the narratives
contained in Chapters 11 & 12 of 2nd Samuel in the Old Testament
(All the quotations in the Search Programme
of my Electronic Power Bible are from the Old King James Version)
Ex 20:14 Thou shalt not commit adultery.
Le 20:10 ¶ And the man that committeth adultery with another man's wife, even he that committeth adultery with his neighbour's wife, the adulterer and the adulteress shall surely be put to death.
De 5:18 Neither shalt thou commit adultery.
Pr 6:32 But whoso committeth adultery with a woman lacketh understanding: he that doeth it destroyeth his own soul. {understanding: Heb. heart}
Jer 3:8 And I saw, when for all the causes whereby backsliding Israel committed adultery I had put her away, and given her a bill of divorce; yet her treacherous sister Judah feared not, but went and played the harlot also.
Jer 3:9 And it came to pass through the lightness of her whoredom, that she defiled the land, and committed adultery with stones and with stocks. {lightness: or, fame}
Jer 5:7 How shall I pardon thee for this? thy children have forsaken me, and sworn by them that are no gods: when I had fed them to the full, they then committed adultery, and assembled themselves by troops in the harlots' houses.
Jer 7:9 Will ye steal, murder, and commit adultery, and swear falsely, and burn incense unto Baal, and walk after other gods whom ye know not;
Jer 23:14 I have seen also in the prophets of Jerusalem an horrible thing: they commit adultery, and walk in lies: they strengthen also the hands of evildoers, that none doth return from his wickedness: they are all of them unto me as Sodom, and the inhabitants thereof as Gomorrah. {an...: or, filthiness}
Jer 29:23 Because they have committed villany in Israel, and have committed adultery with their neighbours' wives, and have spoken lying words in my name, which I have not commanded them; even I know, and am a witness, saith the LORD.
Eze 16:32 But as a wife that committeth adultery, which taketh strangers instead of her husband!
Eze 23:37 That they have committed adultery, and blood is in their hands, and with their idols have they committed adultery, and have also caused their sons, whom they bare unto me, to pass for them through the fire, to devour them.
Ho 4:2 By swearing, and lying, and killing, and stealing, and committing adultery, they break out, and blood toucheth blood. {blood: Heb. bloods}
Ho 4:13 They sacrifice upon the tops of the mountains, and burn incense upon the hills, under oaks and poplars and elms, because the shadow thereof is good: therefore your daughters shall commit whoredom, and your spouses shall commit adultery.
Ho 4:14 I will not punish your daughters when they commit whoredom, nor your spouses when they commit adultery: for themselves are separated with whores, and they sacrifice with harlots: therefore the people that doth not understand shall fall. {I will not: or, Shall I not} {fall: or, be punished}
Mt 5:27 ¶ Ye have heard that it was said by them of old time, Thou shalt not commit adultery:
Mt 5:28 But I say unto you, That whosoever looketh on a woman to lust after her hath committed adultery with her already in his heart.
Mt 5:32 But I say unto you, That whosoever shall put away his wife, saving for the cause of fornication, causeth her to commit adultery: and whosoever shall marry her that is divorced committeth adultery.
Mt 19:9 And I say unto you, Whosoever shall put away his wife, except it be for fornication, and shall marry another, committeth adultery: and whoso marrieth her which is put away doth commit adultery.
Mt 19:18 He saith unto him, Which? Jesus said, Thou shalt do no murder, Thou shalt not commit adultery, Thou shalt not steal, Thou shalt not bear false witness,
Mr 10:11 And he saith unto them, Whosoever shall put away his wife, and marry another, committeth adultery against her.
Mr 10:12 And if a woman shall put away her husband, and be married to another, she committeth adultery.
Mr 10:19 Thou knowest the commandments, Do not commit adultery, Do not kill, Do not steal, Do not bear false witness, Defraud not, Honour thy father and mother.
Lu 16:18 Whosoever putteth away his wife, and marrieth another, committeth adultery: and whosoever marrieth her that is put away from her husband committeth adultery.
Lu 18:20 Thou knowest the commandments, Do not commit adultery, Do not kill, Do not steal, Do not bear false witness, Honour thy father and thy mother.
Joh 8:3 And the scribes and Pharisees brought unto him a woman taken in adultery; and when they had set her in the midst,
Joh 8:4 They say unto him, Master, this woman was taken in adultery, in the very act.
Ro 2:22 Thou that sayest a man should not commit adultery, dost thou commit adultery? thou that abhorrest idols, dost thou commit sacrilege?
Ro 13:9 For this, Thou shalt not commit adultery, Thou shalt not kill, Thou shalt not steal, Thou shalt not bear false witness, Thou shalt not covet; and if there be any other commandment, it is briefly comprehended in this saying, namely, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.
Ga 5:19 Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness,
Jas 2:11 For he that said, Do not commit adultery, said also, Do not kill. Now if thou commit no adultery, yet if thou kill, thou art become a transgressor of the law. {he that: or, that law which}
2Pe 2:14 Having eyes full of adultery, and that cannot cease from sin; beguiling unstable souls: an heart they have exercised with covetous practices; cursed children: {adultery: Gr. an adulteress}
Re 2:22 Behold, I will cast her into a bed, and them that commit adultery with her into great tribulation, except they repent of their deeds.
Le 20:10 ¶ And the man that committeth adultery with another man's wife, even he that committeth adultery with his neighbour's wife, the adulterer and the adulteress shall surely be put to death.
De 5:18 Neither shalt thou commit adultery.
Pr 6:32 But whoso committeth adultery with a woman lacketh understanding: he that doeth it destroyeth his own soul. {understanding: Heb. heart}
Jer 3:8 And I saw, when for all the causes whereby backsliding Israel committed adultery I had put her away, and given her a bill of divorce; yet her treacherous sister Judah feared not, but went and played the harlot also.
Jer 3:9 And it came to pass through the lightness of her whoredom, that she defiled the land, and committed adultery with stones and with stocks. {lightness: or, fame}
Jer 5:7 How shall I pardon thee for this? thy children have forsaken me, and sworn by them that are no gods: when I had fed them to the full, they then committed adultery, and assembled themselves by troops in the harlots' houses.
Jer 7:9 Will ye steal, murder, and commit adultery, and swear falsely, and burn incense unto Baal, and walk after other gods whom ye know not;
Jer 23:14 I have seen also in the prophets of Jerusalem an horrible thing: they commit adultery, and walk in lies: they strengthen also the hands of evildoers, that none doth return from his wickedness: they are all of them unto me as Sodom, and the inhabitants thereof as Gomorrah. {an...: or, filthiness}
Jer 29:23 Because they have committed villany in Israel, and have committed adultery with their neighbours' wives, and have spoken lying words in my name, which I have not commanded them; even I know, and am a witness, saith the LORD.
Eze 16:32 But as a wife that committeth adultery, which taketh strangers instead of her husband!
Eze 23:37 That they have committed adultery, and blood is in their hands, and with their idols have they committed adultery, and have also caused their sons, whom they bare unto me, to pass for them through the fire, to devour them.
Ho 4:2 By swearing, and lying, and killing, and stealing, and committing adultery, they break out, and blood toucheth blood. {blood: Heb. bloods}
Ho 4:13 They sacrifice upon the tops of the mountains, and burn incense upon the hills, under oaks and poplars and elms, because the shadow thereof is good: therefore your daughters shall commit whoredom, and your spouses shall commit adultery.
Ho 4:14 I will not punish your daughters when they commit whoredom, nor your spouses when they commit adultery: for themselves are separated with whores, and they sacrifice with harlots: therefore the people that doth not understand shall fall. {I will not: or, Shall I not} {fall: or, be punished}
Mt 5:27 ¶ Ye have heard that it was said by them of old time, Thou shalt not commit adultery:
Mt 5:28 But I say unto you, That whosoever looketh on a woman to lust after her hath committed adultery with her already in his heart.
Mt 5:32 But I say unto you, That whosoever shall put away his wife, saving for the cause of fornication, causeth her to commit adultery: and whosoever shall marry her that is divorced committeth adultery.
Mt 19:9 And I say unto you, Whosoever shall put away his wife, except it be for fornication, and shall marry another, committeth adultery: and whoso marrieth her which is put away doth commit adultery.
Mt 19:18 He saith unto him, Which? Jesus said, Thou shalt do no murder, Thou shalt not commit adultery, Thou shalt not steal, Thou shalt not bear false witness,
Mr 10:11 And he saith unto them, Whosoever shall put away his wife, and marry another, committeth adultery against her.
Mr 10:12 And if a woman shall put away her husband, and be married to another, she committeth adultery.
Mr 10:19 Thou knowest the commandments, Do not commit adultery, Do not kill, Do not steal, Do not bear false witness, Defraud not, Honour thy father and mother.
Lu 16:18 Whosoever putteth away his wife, and marrieth another, committeth adultery: and whosoever marrieth her that is put away from her husband committeth adultery.
Lu 18:20 Thou knowest the commandments, Do not commit adultery, Do not kill, Do not steal, Do not bear false witness, Honour thy father and thy mother.
Joh 8:3 And the scribes and Pharisees brought unto him a woman taken in adultery; and when they had set her in the midst,
Joh 8:4 They say unto him, Master, this woman was taken in adultery, in the very act.
Ro 2:22 Thou that sayest a man should not commit adultery, dost thou commit adultery? thou that abhorrest idols, dost thou commit sacrilege?
Ro 13:9 For this, Thou shalt not commit adultery, Thou shalt not kill, Thou shalt not steal, Thou shalt not bear false witness, Thou shalt not covet; and if there be any other commandment, it is briefly comprehended in this saying, namely, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.
Ga 5:19 Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness,
Jas 2:11 For he that said, Do not commit adultery, said also, Do not kill. Now if thou commit no adultery, yet if thou kill, thou art become a transgressor of the law. {he that: or, that law which}
2Pe 2:14 Having eyes full of adultery, and that cannot cease from sin; beguiling unstable souls: an heart they have exercised with covetous practices; cursed children: {adultery: Gr. an adulteress}
Re 2:22 Behold, I will cast her into a bed, and them that commit adultery with her into great tribulation, except they repent of their deeds.
(All the quotations in the Search Programme
of the Power Bible are from King James Version)
The word occurred 34 times in the Bible.
Note, however, that this is the incomplete version of the Holy Bible, which
does not contain the deuterocanonical books which Protestants disregarded right
from the time of Martin Luther. So the real number must be more than 70. As a
good student of the bible, you are advised to seek out the rest at your
leisure!
SOME MAY WANT TO KNOW WHAT THE LORD JESUS
SAID ABOUT ADULTERY. APOSTLE MATTHEW WHO WROTE FIRST HAS THIS IN HIS GOSPEL:
27 ¶ "You have heard that it was said,
'You shall not commit adultery.'
Ex 20:14; De 5:18
GBN ACC Barnes JFB JWN MHC MHCC PNTC RWP TFG TSK WBN
28 But I say to you that every one who looks at a woman lustfully has already committed adultery with her in his heart.
Ge 34:2; 2Sa 11:2; Job 31:1; Pr 6:25
ACC Barnes FBN JFB RWP TFG TSK
29 If your right eye causes you to sin, pluck it out and throw it away; it is better that you lose one of your members than that your whole body be thrown into hell.
Mt 18:8-9; 19:12; Mr 9:43-47; Ro 8:13; 1Co 9:27; Col 3:5
GBN ACC Barnes FBN JFB JWN PNTC RWP TFG TSK WBN
30 And if your right hand causes you to sin, cut it off and throw it away; it is better that you lose one of your members than that your whole body go into hell.
Barnes JFB JWN PNTC TFG TSK
31 "It was also said, 'Whoever divorces his wife, let him give her a certificate of divorce.'
De 24:1; Jer 3:1; Mt 19:3; Mr 10:2
ACC Barnes FBN JFB JWN PNTC RWP TFG TSK WBN
32 But I say to you that every one who divorces his wife, except on the ground of unchastity, makes her an adulteress; and whoever marries a divorced woman commits adultery.
Ex 20:14; De 5:18
GBN ACC Barnes JFB JWN MHC MHCC PNTC RWP TFG TSK WBN
28 But I say to you that every one who looks at a woman lustfully has already committed adultery with her in his heart.
Ge 34:2; 2Sa 11:2; Job 31:1; Pr 6:25
ACC Barnes FBN JFB RWP TFG TSK
29 If your right eye causes you to sin, pluck it out and throw it away; it is better that you lose one of your members than that your whole body be thrown into hell.
Mt 18:8-9; 19:12; Mr 9:43-47; Ro 8:13; 1Co 9:27; Col 3:5
GBN ACC Barnes FBN JFB JWN PNTC RWP TFG TSK WBN
30 And if your right hand causes you to sin, cut it off and throw it away; it is better that you lose one of your members than that your whole body go into hell.
Barnes JFB JWN PNTC TFG TSK
31 "It was also said, 'Whoever divorces his wife, let him give her a certificate of divorce.'
De 24:1; Jer 3:1; Mt 19:3; Mr 10:2
ACC Barnes FBN JFB JWN PNTC RWP TFG TSK WBN
32 But I say to you that every one who divorces his wife, except on the ground of unchastity, makes her an adulteress; and whoever marries a divorced woman commits adultery.
Now, let us consult notable Bible Scholars
for their erudite commentaries of the passage:
Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary:
27-32 Victory over the desires of the heart, must be attended with painful exertions. But it must be done. Every thing is bestowed to save us from our sins, not in them. All our senses and powers must be kept from those things which lead to transgression. Those who lead others into temptation to sin, by dress or in other ways, or leave them in it, or expose them to it, make themselves guilty of their sin, and will be accountable for it. If painful operations are submitted to, that our lives may be saved, what ought our minds to shrink from, when the salvation of our souls is concerned? There is tender mercy under all the Divine requirements, and the grace and consolations of the Spirit will enable us to attend to them.
27-32 Victory over the desires of the heart, must be attended with painful exertions. But it must be done. Every thing is bestowed to save us from our sins, not in them. All our senses and powers must be kept from those things which lead to transgression. Those who lead others into temptation to sin, by dress or in other ways, or leave them in it, or expose them to it, make themselves guilty of their sin, and will be accountable for it. If painful operations are submitted to, that our lives may be saved, what ought our minds to shrink from, when the salvation of our souls is concerned? There is tender mercy under all the Divine requirements, and the grace and consolations of the Spirit will enable us to attend to them.
Adam Clarke's Commentary:
Verse 27. Ye have heard that it was said by them of old] By the ancients, toiv arcaioiv, is omitted by nearly a hundred MSS., and some of them of the very greatest antiquity and authority; also by the Coptic, Ethiopic, Armenian, Gothic, and Sclavonian versions; by four copies of the old Itala; and by Origen, Cyril, Theophylact, Euthymius, and Hilary. On this authority Wetstein and Griesbach have left it out of the text.
Verse 27. Ye have heard that it was said by them of old] By the ancients, toiv arcaioiv, is omitted by nearly a hundred MSS., and some of them of the very greatest antiquity and authority; also by the Coptic, Ethiopic, Armenian, Gothic, and Sclavonian versions; by four copies of the old Itala; and by Origen, Cyril, Theophylact, Euthymius, and Hilary. On this authority Wetstein and Griesbach have left it out of the text.
Verse 28. Whosoever looketh on a woman to
lust after her] epiyumsai authn, earnestly to covet her. The verb, epiyumew, is
undoubtedly used here by our Lord, in the sense of coveting through the
influence of impure desire. The word is used in precisely the same sense, on
the same subject, by Herodotus, book the first, near the end. I will give the
passage, but I dare not translate it. To the learned reader it will justify my
translation, and the unlearned must take my word. thv epiyumhsei gunaikov
massagethv anhr, misgetai adewv, Raphelius, on this verse, says, epiyumein hoc
loco, est turpi cupiditate mulieris potiundae flagrare. In all these eases, our
blessed Lord points out the spirituality of the law; which was a matter to
which the Jews paid very little attention. Indeed it is the property of a
Pharisee to abstain only from the outward crime. Men are very often less
inquisitive to know how far the will of God extends, that they may please him
in performing it, than they are to know how far they may satisfy their lusts
without destroying their bodies and souls, utterly, by an open violation of his
law.
Hath committed adultery with her already in
his heart.] It is the earnest wish or desire of the soul, which, in a variety
of cases, constitutes the good or evil of an act. If a man earnestly wish to
commit an evil, but cannot, because God puts time, place, and opportunity out
of his power, he is fully chargeable with the iniquity of the act, by that God
who searches and judges the heart. So, if a man earnestly wish to do some
kindness, which it is out of his power to perform, the act is considered as
his; because God, in this case, as in that above, takes the will for the deed.
If voluntary and deliberate looks and desires make adulterers and adulteresses,
how many persons are there whose whole life is one continued crime! whose eyes
being full of adultery, they cannot cease from sin, 2Pe 2:14. Many would abhor
to commit one external act before the eyes of men, in a temple of stone; and
yet they are not afraid to commit a multitude of such acts in the temple of
their hearts, and in the sight of God!
Albert Barnes' NT Commentary:
Verses 27,28. Ye have heard--Thou shalt not commit adultery. Our Saviour in these verses explains the seventh commandment. It is probable that the Pharisees had explained this commandment as they had the sixth, as extending only to the external act; and that they regarded evil thoughts and a wanton imagination as of little consequence, or as not forbidden by the law. Our Saviour assures them that the commandment did not regard the external act merely, but the secrets of the heart, and the movements of the eye. That they who indulged a wanton desire; that they who looked on a woman to increase their lust, have already, in the sight of God, violated the commandment, and committed adultery in the heart. Such was the guilt of David, whose deep and awful crime fully shows the danger of indulging in evil desires, and in the rovings of a wanton eye. See 2Sa 11:1-27 Ps 51:1-19. See also 2Pe 2:14. So exceeding strict and broad is the law of God! And so heinous in his sight are thoughts and feelings, which may be for ever concealed from the world!
Albert Barnes' NT Commentary:
Verses 27,28. Ye have heard--Thou shalt not commit adultery. Our Saviour in these verses explains the seventh commandment. It is probable that the Pharisees had explained this commandment as they had the sixth, as extending only to the external act; and that they regarded evil thoughts and a wanton imagination as of little consequence, or as not forbidden by the law. Our Saviour assures them that the commandment did not regard the external act merely, but the secrets of the heart, and the movements of the eye. That they who indulged a wanton desire; that they who looked on a woman to increase their lust, have already, in the sight of God, violated the commandment, and committed adultery in the heart. Such was the guilt of David, whose deep and awful crime fully shows the danger of indulging in evil desires, and in the rovings of a wanton eye. See 2Sa 11:1-27 Ps 51:1-19. See also 2Pe 2:14. So exceeding strict and broad is the law of God! And so heinous in his sight are thoughts and feelings, which may be for ever concealed from the world!
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary:
The Same Subject Illustrated from the
Seventh Commandment (Mt 5:27-32).
27. Ye have heard that it was said--The
words "by," or "to them of old time," in this verse are
insufficiently supported, and probably were not in the original text.
Thou shall not commit adultery--Interpreting
this seventh, as they did the sixth commandment, the traditional perverters of
the law restricted the breach of it to acts of criminal intercourse between, or
with, married persons exclusively. Our Lord now dissipates such delusions.
28. But I say unto you, That whosoever
looketh on a woman to lust after her--with the intent to do so, as the same
expression is used in Mt 6:1; or, with the full consent of his will, to feed
thereby his unholy desires.
hath committed adultery with her already in
his heart--We are not to suppose, from the word here
used--"adultery"--that our Lord means to restrict the breach of this
commandment to married persons, or to criminal intercourse with such. The
expressions, "whosoever looketh," and "looketh upon a
woman," seem clearly to extend the range of this commandment to all forms
of impurity, and the counsels which follow--as they most certainly were
intended for all, whether married or unmarried--seem to confirm this. As in
dealing with the sixth commandment our Lord first expounds it, and then in the
four following verses applies His exposition (Mt 5:21-25), so here He first expounds
the seventh commandment, and then in the four following verses applies His
exposition (Mt 5:28-32).
Matthew Henry's Commentary on the Whole
Bible:
Ver. 27. thru Ver. 32.
Ver. 27. thru Ver. 32.
We have here an exposition of the seventh
commandment, given us by the same hand that made the law, and therefore was
fittest to be the interpreter of it: it is the law against uncleanness, which
fitly follows upon the former; that laid a restraint upon sinful passions, this
upon sinful appetites, both which ought always to be under the government of
reason and conscience, and if indulged, are equally pernicious.
I. The command is here laid down (Mt 5:27),
Thou shalt not commit adultery; which includes a prohibition of all other acts
of uncleanness, and the desire of them: but the Pharisees, in their expositions
of this command, made it to extend no further than the act of adultery,
suggesting, that if the iniquity was only regarded in the heart, and went no
further, God could not hear it, would not regard it (Ps 66:18), and therefore they
thought it enough to be able to say that they were no adulterers, Lu 18:11.
II. It is here explained in the strictness
of it, in three things, which would seem new and strange to those who had been
always governed by the tradition of the elders, and took all for oracular that
they taught.
1. We are here taught, that there is such a
thing as heart-adultery, adulterous thoughts and dispositions, which never
proceed to the act of adultery or fornication; and perhaps the defilement which
these give to the soul, that is here so clearly asserted, was not only included
in the seventh commandment, but was signified and intended in many of those
ceremonial pollutions under the law, for which they were to wash their clothes,
and bathe their flesh in water. Whosoever looketh on a woman (not only another
man's wife, as some would have it, but any woman), to lust after her, has
committed adultery with her in his heart, Mt 5:28. This command forbids not
only the acts of fornication and adultery, but,
(1.) All appetites to them, all lusting
after the forbidden object; this is the beginning of the sin, lust conceiving
(Jas 1:15); it is a bad step towards the sin; and where the lust is dwelt upon
and approved, and the wanton desire is rolled under the tongue as a sweet morsel,
it is the commission of sin, as far as the heart can do it; there wants nothing
but a convenient opportunity for the sin itself. Adultera mens est--The mind is
debauched. Ovid. Lust is conscience baffled or biassed: biassed, if it say
nothing against the sin; baffled, if it prevail not in what is says.
(2.) All approaches toward them; feeding the
eye with the sight of the forbidden fruit; not only looking for that end, that
I may lust; but looking till I do lust, or looking to gratify the lust, where further
satisfaction cannot be obtained. The eye is both the inlet and outlet of a
great deal of wickedness of this kind, witness Joseph's mistress (Ge 39:7),
Samson (Jg 16:1), David, 2Sa 11:2. We read of eyes full of adultery, that
cannot cease from sin, 2Pe 2:14. What need have we, therefore, with holy Job,
to make a covenant with our eyes, to make this bargain with them that they
should have the pleasure of beholding the light of the sun and the works of
God, provided they would never fasten or dwell upon anything that might
occasion impure imaginations or desires; and under this penalty, that if they
did, they must smart for it in penitential tears! Job 31:1. What have we the
covering of the eyes for, but to restrain corrupt glances, and to keep out their
defiling impressions? This forbids also the using of any other of our senses to
stir up lust. If ensnaring looks are forbidden fruit, much more unclean
discourses, and wanton dalliances, the fuel and bellows of this hellish fire.
These precepts are hedges about the law of heart- purity, Mt 5:8. And if
looking be lust, they who dress and deck, and expose themselves, with design to
be looked at and lusted after (like Jezebel, that painted her face and tired
her head, and looked out at the window), are no less guilty. Men sin, but
devils tempt to sin.
2. That such looks and such dalliances are
so very dangerous and destructive to the soul, that it is better to lose the
eye and the hand that thus offend then to give way to the sin, and perish
eternally in it. This lesson is here taught us, Mt 5:29,30. Corrupt nature
would soon object against the prohibition of heart-adultery, that it is
impossible to governed by it;
"It is a hard saying, who can bear it?
Flesh and blood cannot but look with pleasure upon a beautiful woman; and it is
impossible to forbear lusting after and dallying with such an object."
Such pretences as these will scarcely be
overcome by reason, and therefore must be argued against with the terrors of
the Lord, and so they are here argued against.
(1.) It is a severe operation that is here
prescribed for the preventing of these fleshly lusts. If thy right eye offend
thee, or cause thee to offend, by wanton glances, or wanton gazings, upon
forbidden objects; if thy right hand offend thee, or cause thee to offend, by
wanton dalliances; and if it were indeed impossible, as is pretended, to govern
the eye and the hand, and they have been so accustomed to these wicked
practices, that they will not be withheld from them; if there were no other way
to restrain them (which, blessed be God, through his grace, there is), it were
better for us to pluck out the eye, and cut off the hand, though the right eye,
and right hand, the more honourable and useful, than to indulge them in sin to
the ruin of the soul. And if this must be submitted to, at the thought of which
nature startles, much more must we resolve to keep under the body, and to bring
it into subjection; to live a life of mortification and self-denial; to keep a
constant watch over our own hearts, and to suppress the first rising of lust
and corruption there; to avoid the occasions of sin, to resist the beginnings
of it, and to decline the company of those who will be a snare to us, though
ever so pleasing; to keep out of harm's way, and abridge ourselves in the use
of lawful things, when we find them temptations to us; and to seek unto God for
his grace, and depend upon that grace daily, and so to walk in the Spirit, as
that we may not fulfil the lusts of the flesh; and this will be as effectual as
cutting off a right hand or pulling out a right eye; and perhaps as much
against the grain to flesh and blood; it is the destruction of the old man.
(2.) It is a startling argument that is made
use of to enforce this prescription (Mt 5:29), and it is repeated in the same
words (Mt 5:30), because we are loathe to hear such rough things; Isa 30:10. It
is profitable for thee that one of thy members should perish, though it be an
eye or a hand, which can be worse spared, and not that thy whole body should be
cast into hell. Note,
[1.] It is not unbecoming a minister of the
gospel to preach of hell and damnation; nay, he must do it, for Christ himself
did it; and we are unfaithful to our trust, if we give not warning of the wrath
to come.
[2.] There are some sins from which we need
to be saved with fear, particularly fleshly lusts, which are such natural brute
beasts as cannot be checked, but by being frightened; cannot be kept from a
forbidden tree, but by cherubim, with a flaming sword.
[3.] When we are tempted to think it hard to
deny ourselves, and to crucify fleshly lusts, we ought to consider how much
harder it will be to lie for ever in the lake that burns with fire and
brimstone; those do not know or do not believe what hell is, that will rather
venture their eternal ruin in those flames, than deny themselves the
gratification of a base and brutish lust.
[4.] In hell there will be torments for the
body; the whole body will be cast into hell, and there will be torment in every
part of it; so that if we have any care of our own bodies, we shall possess
them in sanctification and honour, and not in the lusts of uncleanness.
[5.] Even those duties that are most
unpleasant to flesh and blood, are profitable for us; and our Master requires
nothing from us but what he knows to be for our advantage.
3. That men's divorcing their wives upon
dislike, or for any other cause except adultery, however tolerated and
practised among the Jews, was a violation of the seventh commandment, as it
opened a door to adultery, Mt 5:31,32. Here observe,
(1.) How the matter now stood with reference
to divorce. It hath been said (he does not say as before, It hath been said by
them of old time, because this was not a precept, as those were, though the
Pharisees were willing so to understand it, (Mt 19:7), but only a permission),
"Whosoever shall put away his wife, let
him give her a bill of divorce; let him not think to do it by word of mouth,
when he is in a passion; but let him do it deliberately, by a legal instrument
in writing, attested by witnesses; if he will dissolve the matrimonial bond,
let him do it solemnly."
Thus the law had prevented rash and hasty
divorces; and perhaps at first, when writing was not so common among the Jews,
that made divorces rare things; but in process of time they became very common,
and this direction how to do it, when there was just cause for it, was
construed into a permission of it for any cause, Mt 19:3.
(2.) How this matter was rectified and
amended by our Saviour. He reduced the ordinance of marriage to its primitive
institution: They two shall be one flesh, not to be easily separated, and
therefore divorce is not to be allowed, except in case of adultery, which
breaks the marriage covenant; but he that puts away his wife upon any other
pretence, causeth her to commit adultery, and him also that shall marry her
when she is thus divorced. Note, Those who lead others into temptation to sin,
or leave them in it, or expose them to it, make themselves guilty of their sin,
and will be accountable for it. This is one way of being partaker with
adulterers, Ps 50:18.
Robertson's NT Word Pictures:
Thou shalt not commit adultery (ou moicheuseis). These quotations (verses Mt 5:21,27,33) from the Decalogue (Ex 20:1-26 and De 5:1) are from the Septuagint and use ou and the future indicative (volitive future, common Greek idiom). In Mt 5:43 the positive form, volitive future, occurs (agapêseis). In Mt 5:41 the third person (dotô) singular second aorist active imperative is used. In Mt 5:38 no verb occurs.
Thou shalt not commit adultery (ou moicheuseis). These quotations (verses Mt 5:21,27,33) from the Decalogue (Ex 20:1-26 and De 5:1) are from the Septuagint and use ou and the future indicative (volitive future, common Greek idiom). In Mt 5:43 the positive form, volitive future, occurs (agapêseis). In Mt 5:41 the third person (dotô) singular second aorist active imperative is used. In Mt 5:38 no verb occurs.
In his heart (en têi kardiâi autou). Not
just the centre of the blood circulation though it means that. Not just the
emotional part of man's nature, but here the inner man including the intellect,
the affections, the will. This word is exceedingly common in the New Testament
and repays careful study always. It is from a root that means to quiver or
palpitate. Jesus locates adultery in the eye and heart before the outward act.
Wunsche (Beitrage) quotes two pertinent rabbinical sayings as translated by
Bruce: "The eye and the heart are the two brokers of sin."
"Passions lodge only in him who sees." Hence the peril of lewd
pictures and plays to the pure.
William Burkitt's Notes on the New
Testament:
Our Savior next proceeds to explain the seventh commandment, which forbids adultery; by which the Pharisees understood only the gross act of uncleanness, and carnal lying with a woman. But, says our Savior, Whosoever secretly in his heart desires such a thing, and casts his eyes upon a woman in order to such an act, entertaining only a thought of it with pleasure and delight, he is an adulterer in God's account.
Learn, That such is the purity and spirituality of the law of God, that it condemns speculative wantonness, no less than practical uncleanness; and forbids not only the outward action, but the secret purpose and intention, and first out-goings of the soul after unlawful objects.
Our Saviour had condemned ocular adultery in the foregoing verse, or the adultery of the eye; He that looketh on a woman to lust after her, hath committed adultery with her in his heart.
Whence note, That the eye is an inlet to sin, especially the sin of uncleanness: list enters the heart at the window of the eye.
Now in these verses Christ prescribes a remedy for the cure of this eye-malady: If thine eye offend thee, pluck it out: which is not to be understood literally, as if Christ commanded any man to maim his bodily members; but spiritually, to mortify the lusts of the flesh, and the lusts of the eye, which otherwise would prove a dangerous snare to the soul.
Learn, 1. That sin may be avoided: it is our duty to avoid whatsoever leads to it, or may be an occasion of it; if we find the view of an ensnaring object will inflame us, we must, though not put out our eye, yet make a covenant with our eye that we will not look upon it.
Note, 2. That the best course we can take to be kept from the outward acts of sin, is to mortify our inward affection and love to sin. This is to kill it in the root; and if once our inward affections be mortified, our bodily members may be spared and preserved; for they will no longer be weapons of sin but instruments of righteousness unto holiness.
Our Savior next proceeds to explain the seventh commandment, which forbids adultery; by which the Pharisees understood only the gross act of uncleanness, and carnal lying with a woman. But, says our Savior, Whosoever secretly in his heart desires such a thing, and casts his eyes upon a woman in order to such an act, entertaining only a thought of it with pleasure and delight, he is an adulterer in God's account.
Learn, That such is the purity and spirituality of the law of God, that it condemns speculative wantonness, no less than practical uncleanness; and forbids not only the outward action, but the secret purpose and intention, and first out-goings of the soul after unlawful objects.
Our Saviour had condemned ocular adultery in the foregoing verse, or the adultery of the eye; He that looketh on a woman to lust after her, hath committed adultery with her in his heart.
Whence note, That the eye is an inlet to sin, especially the sin of uncleanness: list enters the heart at the window of the eye.
Now in these verses Christ prescribes a remedy for the cure of this eye-malady: If thine eye offend thee, pluck it out: which is not to be understood literally, as if Christ commanded any man to maim his bodily members; but spiritually, to mortify the lusts of the flesh, and the lusts of the eye, which otherwise would prove a dangerous snare to the soul.
Learn, 1. That sin may be avoided: it is our duty to avoid whatsoever leads to it, or may be an occasion of it; if we find the view of an ensnaring object will inflame us, we must, though not put out our eye, yet make a covenant with our eye that we will not look upon it.
Note, 2. That the best course we can take to be kept from the outward acts of sin, is to mortify our inward affection and love to sin. This is to kill it in the root; and if once our inward affections be mortified, our bodily members may be spared and preserved; for they will no longer be weapons of sin but instruments of righteousness unto holiness.
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