by the LXX. in Dan. ix. 18, and 2 Chron. xx. 15. See also Heb. viii. 10, II.1 — aunjx, it) sc. the gate. Cf. the commence ment and conclusion of ver. 13.
15. Tlpoff'^sTt, beivareof) There are many dangers: therefore we are frequently warned. — See ch. vi. 1, xvi. 6, xxiv. 4 ; Luke xii. 1, 15, etc. — Bi, but) Whilst you are endeavouring yourselves to enter, beware of those who close the gate against you. See ch. xxiii. 13. — -^wdoKpopriruv, false prophets) whose teaching is different from that of true prophets. See ch. v. 17. [comp. ver. 12. He who icorks iniquity, however he may prophesy in the name of Christ (ver. 22), is nevertheless a false prophet. In our day, they who delight in casting against others the taunt of being Pharisees and false prophets, are themselves that which they lay to the charge of others. — V. g.] — evd-jpciffi xpoftdruv, in sheep's clothing) i.e. in such clothing as they would wear if they were sheep.
15, 16. Oinvis ip%t)vrai — hfiffAtUtt auroii;, ivho come — ye shall know them) a very similar passage occurs in Luke xx. 45— 47.2
16. ' A-To3 TUV xapvruv alruv, x.r.X.,from their fruits, etc.) This de claration is solemnly repeated at ver. 20. — xapvuv, fruits) The fruit is that, which a man like a tree puts forth, from the good or evil disposition which pervades the whole of his inward being. Learning, compiled from every quarter, and combined with language, does not constitute fruit ; which consists of all that which the teacher puts forth from his heart, in his language and conduct, as something flowing from his inner being, like milk, which the mother gives from her own breast : see ch. xii. 33, 34, 35. This is the true force of vois?, produces, in ver. 17—19 : cf. ver. 21, 23, 24, 26. It is not his speech alone which con stitutes the true or the false prophet, but his whole method of leading* himself, and others with him, by the one or the other
yv is the expression used of the future life of blessedness : for the present life is not life at all. — V. g.
2 True judgment looks to the inward character of persons and things [" inwardly they are ravening wolves"]. — V. g.
3 However the margin of Ed. ii. of N. Test, more readily allows the omis sion of this particle than the larger edition. — E. B.
Boi Hil. 1245 read d^c, : but c Lucif. ' ex,' Vulg. ' a.' — ED.
4 Soever. 14, " Ladeth."— ED.