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Luke 18:25
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from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
a camel: Some render a cable; but it may justly be doubted whether ךבלחכןע [Strong's G2574] ever was so translated before, for the word for a cable, as the scholiast on Aristophanes expressly affirms, is written ךבליכןע, not with an "e" ח, but with an "i" י. Some few manuscripts, it is true, have got the word ךבליכןע into the text, but it is evidently an attempted improvement. Matthew 23:24
Reciprocal: Matthew 5:20 - ye Matthew 7:21 - shall Matthew 13:22 - the deceitfulness Matthew 19:24 - It Mark 10:25 - General Luke 1:53 - and Luke 8:14 - and are Luke 16:19 - rich 1 Corinthians 1:26 - not many mighty
Gill's Notes on the Bible
For it is easier for a camel,.... These words were spoken to the disciples again, and were a second address to them, after they had shown astonishment at the former;
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Barnes' Notes on the Bible
See the notes at Matthew 19:13-30.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse 25. It as easier for a camel — Instead of καμηλον, a camel, S, and four other MSS., read καμιλου, a cable. See the same reading noticed on the parallel place, Matthew 19:24.