Matthew 5:47

And if ye salute. It seems almost a bathos after "love." But it expresses love publicly showing itself by kindly greeting. Your brethren; with whom you have the fellow-feeling of common origin—in this case not national, but spiritual (cf.

Matthew 5:22, note). What do you more than others? ( τί περισσὸν ποιεῖτε); Tyndale," What singuler thynge doe ye?" Do not even the publicans? Revised Version, the Gentiles? with the manuscripts. "The form used ( ἐθνικός) describes character rather than mere position" (Bishop Westcott, on 3 John 1:7); "hethen men" (Wickliffe).

So; Revised Version, the same, with the manuscripts. το, notwithstanding its occurrence in Matthew 5:46 and parallel passage, Luke 6:33, was altered to the commoner οὕτως ποιεῖν.