Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Matthew 10:36
And a man’s foes [shall be] they of his own household.
Verse 36. A man’s foes shall be they of his own household.] Our Lord refers here to their own traditions. So Sota, fol. 49. “A little before the coming of the Messiah, the son shall insult the father, the daughter rebel against her mother, the daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law; and each man shall have his own household fur his enemies.” Again, in Sanhedrin, fol. 97, it is said: “In the age in which the Messiah shall come, the young men shall turn the elders into ridicule; the elders shall rise up against the youth, the daughter against her mother, the daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law; and the man of that age shall be excessively impudent; nor shall the son reverence his father.” These are most remarkable sayings, and, by them, our Lord shows them that he was the Messiah, for all these things literally took place shortly after their final rejection of Christ. See the terrible account, given by Josephus, relative to the desolations of those times. Through the just judgment of God, they who rejected the Lord that bought them became abandoned to every species of iniquity; they rejected the salvation of God, and fell into the condemnation of the devil.
Father Quesnel’s note on this place is worthy of deep attention. “The father (says he) is the enemy of his son, when, through a bad education, an irregular love, and a cruel indulgence, he leaves him to take a wrong bias, instructs him not in his duty, and fills his mind with ambitious views. The son is the father’s enemy, when he is the occasion of his doing injustice, in order to heap up an estate for him, and to make his fortune. The mother is the daughter’s enemy, when she instructs her to please the world, breeds her up in excess and vanity, and suffers any thing scandalous or unseemly in her dress. The daughter is the mother’s enemy, when she becomes her idol, when she engages her to comply with her own irregular inclinations, and to permit her to frequent balls and plays. The master is the enemy of his servant, and the servant that of his master, when the one takes no care of the other’s salvation, and the latter is subservient to his master’s passions.”
Fuente: Adam Clarke’s Commentary and Critical Notes on the Bible
Not of the household of faith, which showeth that it is not the gospel, but mens corruptions, which causeth division. Those, who truly receive the gospel agree well enough, at least break not out into open feuds; but the tie of no natural or moral relations will hold together the seed of the woman and the seed of the serpent. This doth not always happen, but very ordinarily, and therefore there was need that Christ should forewarn his disciples of it.
Fuente: English Annotations on the Holy Bible by Matthew Poole
36. And a man’s foes shall be theyof his own householdThis saying, which is quoted, as is thewhole verse, from Mic 7:6, isbut an extension of the Psalmist’s complaint (Psa 41:9;Psa 55:12-14), which hadits most affecting illustration in the treason of Judas against ourLord Himself (Joh 13:18; Mat 26:48-50).Hence would arise the necessity of a choice between Christ and thenearest relations, which would put them to the severest test.
Fuente: Jamieson, Fausset and Brown’s Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
And a man’s foes shall be they of his own household. His children, and his servants, such that he has either begotten and brought up, or are daily fed at his table, and maintained by him. This, with the former instances, are borrowed from Mic 7:6 and the times of the Gospel are set forth in the same dismal and black characters, as those in which the prophet lived; and much such a description do the Jews themselves give, of the times of their expected Messiah; which agreeing in words, as well as things, I cannot forbear transcribing.
“The government shall be turned to heresy (Sadducism), and there will be no reproof; the synagogue shall become a brothel house, Galilee shall be destroyed, and Gablan shall be laid waste, and the men of the border shall wander from city to city, and shall obtain no mercy; the wisdom of the Scribes shall stink, and they that fear to sin shall be despised, and truth shall fail; young men shall turn pale, or put to shame, the faces of old men, and old men shall stand before young men; the “son” shall deal basely “with his father, the daughter shall rise up against her mother, and the daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law, and the enemies of a man shall be they of his own house”: the face of that generation shall be as the face of a dog, and the son shall not reverence his father o.”
All which characters, how exactly they agree with the generation in which Christ lived, is easy to observe.
o Misn. Sota, c. 9. sect. 15. T. Bab. Sanhedrim, fol. 97. 1. Zohar in Num. fol. 102. 3. & Raya Mehimna in ib. in Lev. fol. 28. 2. Shirhashirim Rabba, fol. 11. 4. Derech Eretz Zuta, fol. 19. 4.
Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible
1) “And a man’s foes shall be,” (kai echthroi tou anthropou) “And (the) enemies of a man,” who follows me will be, or come to be, to exist as foretold also Psa 41:9; Psa 55:12-14.
2) “They of his own household. (hoi oikiakoi autou) “Shall be those of his own household,” those members of his own household. The nearer the kinship, the sharper the pain that results from the stand of the righteous for righteousness, and against known unrighteousness, Mic 7:6; This is apparent in the treason of Judas, Joh 13:18; Mat 26:48-50.
Fuente: Garner-Howes Baptist Commentary
36. A man’s foes of his own household The division line of principle shall cut like a straight sword right through the centre of the house. Upon either side that line, born of the same blood, are the opposing adherents of heaven and hell.
Fuente: Whedon’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments
36 And a man’s foes shall be they of his own household.
Ver. 36. And a man’s foes shall be they, &c. ] Nicholas of Jenvile, a young man newly come from Geneva, was condemned and set in the cart. His own father, coming with a staff, would have beaten him but that the officers kept him off. Julius Palmer, martyr, coming to his mother, and asking her blessing, “Thou shalt,” said she, “have Christ’s curse and mine wherever thou goest.” John Fetty, martyr, was accused and complained of by his own wife, and she was thereupon struck mad. Another like example there is to be read of an unnatural husband witnessing against his own wife, and likewise of children against their own mother, &c. So this saying of our Saviour is fulfilled. And it was not for nothing that Antigonus prayed so hard to be delivered from his friends; that Queen Elizabeth complained that in trust she had found treason.
Fuente: John Trapp’s Complete Commentary (Old and New Testaments)
36. . ] The article is generic, and is rightly rendered in the E. V. ‘a man’s foes,’ &c. See on ch. Mat 9:1 .
Fuente: Henry Alford’s Greek Testament
Mat 10:36 . : the predicate standing first for emphasis; enemies , not friends as one would expect, the members of one’s family ( , as in Mat 10:25 ). The passage reproduces freely Mic 7:6 .
Fuente: The Expositors Greek Testament by Robertson
36. .] The article is generic, and is rightly rendered in the E. V. a mans foes, &c. See on ch. Mat 9:1.
Fuente: The Greek Testament
Mat 10:36. , enemies) A man shall have them of his household-his relations, servants, and acquaintances-for enemies, if he believes in Me; see Mic 7:6.
Fuente: Gnomon of the New Testament
Gen 3:15, Gen 4:8-10, Gen 37:17-28, 1Sa 17:28, 2Sa 16:11, Job 19:13-19, Psa 41:9, Psa 55:13, Jer 12:6, Jer 20:10, Mic 7:6, Joh 13:8
Reciprocal: Num 12:1 – Miriam 2Sa 3:1 – between 1Ki 2:20 – Ask on Psa 27:10 – When Psa 69:8 – and an alien Psa 120:6 – soul Son 1:6 – my mother’s Mat 24:10 – betray Joh 13:18 – but
Fuente: The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
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Not only will distant relatives be opposed to each other, but right in a man’s household there will be members who will become his personal enemies because he is determined to accept Christ’s teaching.