This is a great consolation to those who are tried and afflicted.

And one of them shall not fall on the ground (exhausted or killed) without your Father - "Not one of them is forgotten before God," as it is in Luke. … Two for a farthing; but if you take two farthings’ worth, you shall have one thrown into the bargain; you shall have five. 1. In our Lord"s day, therefore, the market value would be Neh 1d. assarion. Hieros. Matthew 10:29-31 Are not two sparrows sold for a penny? 38. The word is a diminutive, little sparrows, and carries with it a touch of tenderness. Submit to God amid all trials.

((e) Cholin, c. 12. sect.

147. A Roman As was one-tenth of a Denarius, which was about sevenpence-halfpenny, and one-tenth of sevenpence-halfpenny makes just three farthings. 2. Peah, c. 8. sect. and not one of them shall fall on the ground without your Father: Are not two sparrows sold for a farthing? 52, 53.Farthing - See the notes at Matthew 5:26.Without your Father - That is, God, your Father, guides and directs its fall. Two deductions may be drawn—[1] That human life is more precious in God’s sight than the life of the lower animals (Matthew 10:31); [2] That kindness to animals is part of God’s law. 4. II. "Commentary on Matthew 10:29". "The Bible Study New Testament". All things are ordered by the counsel of God.

When he informs us that the hairs of our head are all numbered, it is not to encourage trivial speculations, but to instruct us to depend on the fatherly care of God which is exercised over these frail bodies. 1891. Copyright StatementThese files are public domain.Text Courtesy of BibleSupport.com. Bullinger's Companion bible Notes". 3. , "a bird "without God" does not fly away, much less the soul of a man.'. Our Lord seems to have borrowed the expression, One of them shall not fall on the ground, etc., from his own countrymen.
"Commentary on Matthew 10:29". https:https://www.studylight.org/commentaries/bcc/matthew-10.html. (Menochius). Not one of them falls on the ground apart from your Father's will. All rights reserved. i. pp. Concerning himself, he says, I watch, and am as a sparrow upon the housetop, Psalm 102:7. Diminutive form of the Roman as, slightly more than half an English penny. 1. BibliographyAlford, Henry.

“How much? Copyright � Broadman Press 1932,33, Renewal 1960. The belief of an all-wise, all-directing Providence, is a powerful support under the most grievous accidents of life. γ.] Charles Schribner's Sons. and one of them shall not fall on the ground without your Father.

means any kind of small bird. After thirteen years they came out; and, sitting at the mouth of the cave, they observed a fowler stretching his nets to catch birds; and as often as the Bath Kol said דימוס dimos, escape!

1909-1922. Bibliography"Commentary on Matthew 10:29". or do we no longer need His assistance? ((d) Ib. "Commentary on Matthew 10:29". There is hardly any thing of less value than sparrows, (for two were then sold for a farthing, or, as Luke states it, five for two farthings,) and yet God has his eye upon them to protect them, so that nothing happens to them by chance. 29 Are not two sparrows sold for a farthing? Are not two sparrows sold for a farthing? https:https://www.studylight.org/commentaries/jab/matthew-10.html. Farthing - See the notes at Matthew 5:26. Coster. https:https://www.studylight.org/commentaries/geb/matthew-10.html. "Whedon's Commentary on the Bible". They are small; they are found in great numbers; they are tame, intrusive, and nestle everywhere. Deissmann tells us that a fragment of a papyrus was discovered at Aegira (in Achaea, on the Corinthian gulf), in 1899, containing part of a market tariff of Diocletian (third century, A.D.), showing that sparrows were sold in tens.

καί, and yet: see examples in Hartung, Partikellehre, i. When one of them has lost its mate - a matter of everyday occurrence - he will sit on the housetop alone, and lament by the hour his sad bereavement.

1685. BibliographyPoole, Matthew, "Commentary on Matthew 10:29". "Commentary on Matthew 10:29". 1999. Be inspired in your walk with Jesus Christ without His knowledge or will. Maaser Sheni, c. 4. sect. Our Lord seems to have borrowed the expression, One of them shall not fall on the ground, etc., from his own countrymen. If the evidence be considered as insufficient to entitle it to admission into the text, let it stand there as a supplementary italic word, necessary to make the meaning of the place evident. Edersheim thinks that Jesus may have had reference to the two sparrows which, according to the Rabbins, were used in the ceremonial of purification from leprosy (Leviticus 14:49-54). (H. Kollock, D. D.), When George Washington had been graciously preserved amidst the terrible carnage which attended Braddock’s defeat, he was not ashamed to leave on record this evidence of his faith:-“By the all-powerful dispensations of Providence I have been protected beyond all human probability or expectation; for I had four bullets through my coat, and two horses shot under me, yet escaped unhurt, although death was leveling my companions on every side of me.” His friend, Dr. James Craik, who was with him in the battle, was often afterward heard to say:-“I expected every moment to see him fall. Norton. "Commentary on Matthew 10:29". 1865-1868.
- Ασσαριου . Much such a way of arguing is used by the Jews, who (f) say, , "a bird without God does not perish, much less a man"; or, as it is elsewhere (g) expressed, "a bird "without God" is not hunted, or taken, how much less does the soul of a man go out of him? Recognize the hand of God in all the events of life. 89. Two birds, or sparrows, as the word may be rendered, in Leviticus 14:4 were used in cleansing the leper; one was killed, and the other let loose into the open field: and though it might be a contingent thing with men which was killed, and which preserved, yet not with God; and some think the allusion is here to that case. https:https://www.studylight.org/commentaries/znt/matthew-10.html. Matthew 10:29 Parallel Verses [⇓ See commentary ⇓] Matthew 10:29, NIV: "Are not two sparrows sold for a penny?Yet not one of them will fall to the ground outside your Father's care." Fall on the ground — That is, perish or expire. "Commentary on Matthew 10:29". 1859. for a farthing. BibliographyNicol, W. Robertson, M.A., L.L.D. Has God the gracious will, the benevolent inclination, to observe and direct the works of creation? And not one of them will fall to the ground apart from your Father. All of us who were engaged in the struggle must have observed frequent instances of a superintending Providence in our favour. Sheviith, fol.

καὶ ἓν ἐξ αὐτῶν κ.τ.λ. Two sparrows (δυο στρουτια — duo strouthia). And yet not one of them will fall to the ground apart from your Father. "E.W. "Commentary on Matthew 10:29". https:https://www.studylight.org/commentaries/cal/matthew-10.html. Eng.) Are not two sparrows sold for a farthing? College Press, Joplin, MO. The doctrine intended to be inculcated is this: The providence of God extends to the minutest things; every thing is continually under the government and care of God, and nothing occurs without his will or permission; if then he regards sparrows, how much more man, and how much more still the soul that trusts in him! Johann Albrecht Bengel's Gnomon of the New Testament. You don’t know who has you.” She answered at once, “No, I don’t know who has me, and I’m not afraid, for I know that you know.” (J. Culross, D. D.), Said Martin Luther, as his eye caught sight of a little bird among the leaves of a tree, one evening, “This little fellow has chosen his shelter for the night, and is quietly rocking himself to sleep, without a care for tomorrow’s lodgings, calmly holding by his little twig, and leaving God to think for him.”, The value of a sparrow is just about as little as anything that could come under appraisement. "The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge".

"Cambridge Greek Testament for Schools and Colleges". ((c) Maimon. Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible. 4. Christ proceeds farther, as I have already hinted, and declares that tyrants, whatever may be their madness, have no power whatever even over the body: and that therefore it is improper in any persons to dread the cruelty of men, as if they were not under the protection of God. Sheviith, fol. 1700-1703. ἀσσαρίου] This word, derived from ‘as,’ was used in Greek and Hebrew ( אִיסָר ) to signify the meanest, most insignificant amount: see Buxtorf, Lex. Used by Permission. The thoughts with which we in these later days are more familiar may lead us to think of that Providence as more commonly working under the form of fixed and general laws; but, however this may be, the truth remains unaltered, for law itself is but the expression of the will of God, and faith may accept the law as working out a divine purpose of good for the universe and for every free agent who consciously accepts it. 38. 1. A powerful argument to recommend religion to the choice of all men. The doctrine of providence. It is calculated to cheer the ministers of Christ under the various difficulties to their success to which they are exposed. "Vincent's Word Studies in the New Testament". 5. ; "if of a command, which is light כאיסר "as a farthing", which Bartenora explains a "very little thing", the law says, "that it may be well with thee", much more of the weighty commands in the law.'. ; Fausset, A. R.; Brown, David. BibliographyCalvin, John. It is therefore an ancient reading, and one too widely received to be accounted for on the hypothesis of its being a paraphrase, especially since the sense would be complete without the contested words τοῦ θελή΄ατος” (the will of), as the LXX. Our Lord appeals to his disciples, for the truth of it, as a thing well known: according to the question in Luke, five sparrows were sold for two farthings, which makes them somewhat cheaper still.

God’s providence extends to every particular, both person and occurrence. of Mathai, read εις την παγιδα, into a snare. Two birds, or sparrows, as the word may be rendered, in Leviticus 14:4 were used in cleansing the leper; one was killed, and the other let loose into the open field: and though it might be a contingent thing with men which was killed, and which preserved, yet not with God; and some think the allusion is here to that case. Are not two sparrows sold for a farthing? "Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers". BibliographyGill, John. What is thus taught us from the consideration of God is confirmed by an attention to our feelings; a persuasion of the superintending providence of God is incorporated with our very nature.