secundum Matthæum 12:33

Jerome's Latin Vulgate

Vendite quæ possidetis, et date eleemosynam. Facite vobis sacculos, qui non veterascunt, thesaurum non deficientem in cælis: quo fur non appropriat, neque tinea corrumpit.

Parallel Translations

Clementine Latin Vulgate (1592)
Et ut diligatur ex toto corde, et ex toto intellectu, et ex tota anima, et ex tota fortitudine, et diligere proximum tamquam seipsum, majus est omnibus holocautomatibus, et sacrificiis.

Nova Vulgata (1979)
Vendite, quae possidetis, et date eleemosynam. Facite vobis sacculos, qui non veterescunt, thesaurum non deficientem in caelis, quo fur non appropiat, neque tinea corrumpit;

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Sell: Luke 18:22, Matthew 19:21, Acts 2:45, Acts 4:34, Acts 4:35, 2 Corinthians 8:2

provide: Luke 16:9, Haggai 1:6, Matthew 6:19-21, John 12:6, 1 Timothy 6:17-19, James 5:1-3

Reciprocal: Exodus 16:20 - bred worms Deuteronomy 15:11 - Thou shalt Psalms 112:9 - dispersed Proverbs 8:18 - durable Isaiah 23:18 - it shall Matthew 6:2 - when Matthew 6:20 - General Mark 10:21 - sell Luke 6:30 - Give Luke 10:42 - which Luke 11:41 - rather Luke 12:17 - shall Luke 12:21 - he Luke 16:11 - true Luke 19:8 - Behold John 12:5 - and given Colossians 1:5 - laid Colossians 3:1 - seek 1 Timothy 6:19 - Laying Hebrews 10:34 - in yourselves that ye have James 5:2 - Your riches 1 Peter 1:7 - that

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Sell that ye have, and give alms,.... Since they had a kingdom bequeathed them by their heavenly Father, they should be so far from indulging an anxious care about food and raiment, that when there was a call in providence for it, and rather than the poor should go without a supply, it became them to sell their houses and lands, and whatever possessions they had, and relieve them; and so they did not long after; for some of those who sold their estates, and brought the money to the apostles, Acts 4:34, might be now present; and the more readily and cheerfully do what they did, remembering these words of Christ:

provide yourselves bags which wax not old; as do the bags of misers: their bag is, צרור נקוב, "a bag pierced through", or that has a hole in it, which lets the money out as it is put in, Haggai 1:6 and which the Targum renders by, למארתא, "for a curse"; as money hoarded up in bags by covetous persons generally is: Christ would have his followers put their money up in other bags; not in such which rot through age, or are worn out, and are full of holes through use; but into the hands and bellies of the poor, the fruit and reward of which will always abide;

a treasure in the heavens that faileth not: whereas treasure on earth does, being either taken away from the possessors of it by various ways, or they from that:

where no thief approacheth; can come near to steal it away, which is often the case here on earth:

neither moth corrupteth; as it does the best of garments, wore by men: but the robes of glory and immortality can never be corrupted:

Haggai 1:6- :.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Sell that ye have - Sell your property. Exchange it for that which you can use in distributing charity. This was the condition of their being disciples. Their property they gave up; they forsook it, or they put it into common stock, for the sake of giving alms to the poor, Acts 2:44; Acts 4:32; John 12:6; Acts 5:2.

Bags which wax not old - The word “bags,” here, means “purses,” or the bags attached to their girdles, in which they carried their money. See the notes at Matthew 5:38. By bags which wax not old Jesus means that we should lay up treasure in heaven; that our aim should be to be prepared to enter there, where all our wants will be forever provided for. Purses, here, grow old and useless. Wealth takes to itself wings. Riches are easily scattered, or we must soon leave them; but that wealth which is in heaven abides forever. It never is corrupted; never flies away; never is to be left.

Wax - This word is from an old Saxon word, and in the Bible means to “grow.”

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 33. Sell that ye have — Dispose of your goods. Be not like the foolish man already mentioned, who laid up the produce of his fields, without permitting the poor to partake of God's bounty: turn the fruits of your fields (which are beyond what you need for your own support) into money, and give it in alms; and the treasure thus laid out, shall be as laid up for yourselves and families in heaven. This purse shall not grow old, and this treasure shill not decay. Ye shall by and by find both the place where you laid up the treasure, and the treasure itself in the place; for he who hath pity on the poor lendeth unto the Lord; and he may rest assured, that whatever, for Christ's sake, he thus lays out, it will be paid him again.