secundum Matthæum 12:48

Clementine Latin Vulgate

qui autem non cognovit, et fecit digna plagis, vapulabit paucis. Omni autem cui multum datum est, multum quæretur ab eo : et cui commendaverunt multum, plus petent ab eo.

Parallel Translations

Jerome's Latin Vulgate (405)
qui autem non cognovit, et fecit digna plagis, vapulabit paucis. Omni autem cui multum datum est, multum qu�retur ab eo: et cui commendaverunt multum, plus petent ab eo.

Nova Vulgata (1979)
qui autem non cognovit et fecit digna plagis, vapulabit paucis. Omni autem, cui multum datum est, multum quaeretur ab eo; et cui commendaverunt multum, plus petent ab eo.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

knew: Leviticus 5:17, Acts 17:30, Romans 2:12-16, 1 Timothy 1:13

For: Luke 16:2, Luke 16:10-12, Genesis 39:8-23, Matthew 25:14-29, John 15:22, 1 Corinthians 9:17, 1 Corinthians 9:18, 1 Timothy 1:11, 1 Timothy 1:13, 1 Timothy 6:20, Titus 1:3, James 3:1,*Gr.

Reciprocal: Genesis 39:9 - none Exodus 22:10 - General Numbers 15:22 - General Deuteronomy 8:19 - I testify against Deuteronomy 25:2 - General Joshua 17:15 - If thou be Job 24:13 - rebel Proverbs 16:12 - an Ezekiel 16:51 - Samaria Hosea 4:15 - yet Amos 3:2 - therefore Matthew 11:22 - It shall Matthew 23:14 - therefore Matthew 25:15 - talents Mark 12:2 - a servant Mark 12:40 - long Luke 7:41 - the other Luke 10:14 - General Luke 19:15 - that he Luke 20:47 - the same Luke 23:34 - they know not John 13:17 - happy John 19:11 - the greater Acts 12:23 - because Romans 2:9 - of the Jew 2 Corinthians 8:12 - if 1 Timothy 5:8 - and is James 1:22 - be James 4:17 - General 1 Peter 4:17 - judgment Revelation 16:6 - for they are

Gill's Notes on the Bible

But he that knew not,.... His Lord's will; either not having the means of knowing it, as the Heathens; or through neglect of them, not attending to them, and making use of them, which is the case of many, where the Gospel revelation is:

and did commit things worthy of stripes; or punishment; as the Gentiles, by sinning against the law, and light of nature; and those who might have the advantage of a divine revelation, but neglect it: the Septuagint in Deuteronomy 25:2 have the same phrase as here,

αξιος πληγων, "worthy of stripes":

shall be beaten with few stripes; their punishment shall be less, and it shall be more tolerable for them in the day of judgment, than for knowing professors. The Jews did not always inflict forty stripes, or forty save one, upon delinquents; but according to their crimes, and as they were able to bear them, more or fewer: so it is said w,

"when they judge a sinner, how many (stripes) he can bear, they do not reckon, but by stripes that are fit to be trebled: if they judge he is able to bear "twenty", they do not order that he be beaten with twenty one, that so they may be trebled, but that he be beaten with "eighteen": if they condemn him to receive forty, and after he is begun to be beaten, they observe him to be weak, and they say he cannot bear any more than these "nine", or "twelve", with which he has been beaten, lo, he is free; if they condemn him to receive "twelve", and after that he is beaten, they see that he is strong and able to bear more, lo, he is free, and he is not to be beaten any more, upon that estimation: if they condemn him today that he is to be beaten with "twelve" (stripes), and they do not beat him till tomorrow, and lo, tomorrow he is able to bear eighteen, they do not beat him but with twelve.''

And elsewhere the rule is x,

"he that commits a sin, in which there are two negative (commands broken) if they pronounce but one sentence, he is beaten and is free; but if not (i.e. if more than one) he is beaten, and when he is healed, he is beaten again.''

For unto whomsoever much is given, of him shall, much be required: the more knowledge a man has, the more practice is expected from him; and the greater his gifts are, the more useful he ought to be, and diligent in the improvement of them:

and to whom men have committed much, or to whom much is committed, of him they will ask the more; not more than what was committed to him, but more than from him, who has less committed to him; in proportion to what a man is entrusted with, the greater increase and improvement it is expected he should make.

w Maimon. Hilchot Sanhedrin, c. 17. sect. 2, 3. x Misn. Maccot, c. 3. sect. 11.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Few stripes - The Jews never inflicted more than forty stripes for one offence, Deuteronomy 25:3. For smaller offences they inflicted only four, five, six, etc., according to the nature of the crime. In allusion to this, our Lord says that he “that knew not” - that is, he who had comparatively little knowledge - would suffer a punishment proportionally light. He refers, doubtless, to those who have fewer opportunities, smaller gifts, or fewer teachers.

Much is given - They who have much committed to their disposal, as stewards, etc. See the parable of the talents in Matthew 25:14-30.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 48. Shall be beaten with few — For petty offences the Jews in many cases inflicted so few as four, five, and six stripes. See examples in Lightfoot.

From this and the preceding verse we find that it is a crime to be ignorant of God's will; because to every one God has given less or more of the means of instruction. Those who have had much light, or the opportunity of receiving much, and have not improved it to their own salvation, and the good of others, shall have punishment proportioned to the light they have abused. On the other hand, those who have had little light, and few means of improvement, shall have few stripes, shall be punished only for the abuse of the knowledge they possessed. See at the end of the chapter. Luke 12:59