leave your gift there before the altar. First go and be reconciled to your brother; then come and offer your gift.
Christ having laid down these principles, that Moses and the prophets were still to be their rulers, but that the scribes and Pharisees were to be no longer their rulers, proceeds to expound the law in some particular instances, and to vindicate it from the corrupt glosses which those expositors had put upon it.
Commenting on Matthew 5:21-26
Leave there thy gift before the altar,.... This might easily be done, and the business soon dispatched, at some seasons; particularly, at their public feasts, as the passover, pentecost, and feast of tabernacles, when all the Israelites were together: and go thy way; make what haste thou canst, first be reconciled to thy brother: use all means to reconcile him; acknowledge the offence; ask his...
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