Mateo 5:45

Filipino Cebuano Bible

45 aron mahimo kamong mga anak sa inyong Amahan nga anaa sa langit; kay siya nagapasubang sa iyang Adlaw sa ibabaw sa mga dautan ug sa ibabaw sa mga maayo, ug nagpadalag ulan ngadto sa mga matarung ug sa mga dili matarung.

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ye: Matthew 5:9, Luke 6:35, John 13:35, Ephesians 5:1, 1 John 3:9

for: Job 25:3, Psalms 145:9, Acts 14:17

Reciprocal: Genesis 2:5 - had not Genesis 25:6 - gifts Leviticus 26:4 - Then I Numbers 12:13 - General Deuteronomy 4:19 - which the Lord Deuteronomy 10:18 - loveth Deuteronomy 33:14 - the precious Joshua 10:13 - So the sun 2 Samuel 9:3 - the kindness of God Job 38:28 - Hath the Psalms 33:5 - earth Psalms 74:16 - prepared Psalms 104:13 - watereth Psalms 119:68 - good Psalms 119:91 - all are Psalms 136:8 - The sun Psalms 147:8 - prepareth Proverbs 4:18 - General Proverbs 19:11 - and Proverbs 29:13 - Lord Ecclesiastes 11:7 - a pleasant Isaiah 11:9 - not hurt Jeremiah 5:24 - that giveth Jeremiah 14:22 - Art Jeremiah 31:35 - which giveth Matthew 5:16 - your Father Matthew 5:48 - even Matthew 15:27 - yet Matthew 18:33 - even Mark 7:28 - yet Luke 11:13 - heavenly Luke 12:16 - The ground John 8:39 - If Acts 17:25 - seeing Romans 1:20 - from the Philippians 2:15 - sons 1 Thessalonians 5:15 - none 1 Peter 3:11 - do

Gill's Notes on the Bible

That ye may be the children of your father,.... Not that any became the children of God, by doing things in imitation of him: for as in nature no man becomes the son of another by imitating him, or by doing the things he does but either by birth, or by adoption; so in grace no man becomes a child of God by the works he does, as a follower of God, but by adopting grace; and which is discovered in regeneration. Christ's meaning is, that they might appear, and be known to be the children of God, by doing those things in which they resemble their heavenly Father; and which are agreeable to his nature and conduct; as the tree is known by its fruit, and the cause by its effect: for where adoption and regenerating grace take place, the fruit of good works is brought forth to the glory of God. Some copies, instead of υιοι, "children", read ομοιοι "like": and accordingly, the Persic version renders it thus, "that ye may be like your Father, which is heaven". Our Lord seems to have respect to the Jews, often having in their mouths this expression, אבינו בשמים, "our Father which is in heaven"; and to their frequent boasting that they were the children of God; and therefore he would have them make this manifest by their being like him, or acting in imitation of him;

for he maketh his sun to rise on the evil, and on the good. Christ instances in one of the greatest blessings in nature, the sun, so useful to the earth, and so beneficial to mankind for light and heat; which he calls "his sun": his own, and not another's; which he has made, and maintains, orders to run its race, and commands it to rise morning by morning, and that upon good and bad men; one, as well as another; all equally share in, and partake of its benign influences, and enjoy the comfortable effects and blessings of it:

and sendeth rain on the just and unjust; that is, on the fields of persons of such different characters, even both the early and the latter rain; which makes the earth fruitful, crowns it with goodness, and causes it to bring forth bread to the eater, and seed to the sower. This is one of the most considerable blessings of life; the gift of it is God's sole prerogative; it is peculiar to him; it is what none of the vanities of the Gentiles can give; and yet is bestowed by him on the most worthless and undeserving. This flows from that perfection of God, which the Cabbalists u call

""chesed, mercy", or benignity, to which it is essential to give largely to all, both "to the just and unjust".''

The Jews have a saying x, that

"greater is the day of rain, than the resurrection of the dead; for the resurrection of the dead is for the just; but rain is בין לצדקים בין לרשעים, "both for the just, and for the wicked":''

a way of speaking much like this here. They also used to praise God for rain, on this consideration, because it was given to unworthy persons.

"y R. Jose Bar Jacob went to visit R. Joden of Magdala; whilst he was there, rain descended, and he heard his voice, saying, thousands of thousands, and millions of millions are bound to praise thy name, O our king, for every drop thou causest to descend upon us, טובה לחייבים

שאת גומל, "because thou renderest good to the wicked".''

Now our Lord instances in things which could not be denied, and they themselves allowed; and makes use of their own words, to engage them to imitate God, whom they call their Father, by doing good to their enemies, and them that hated them, as well as to their friends and neighbours: yet sometimes they could scarcely allow, that the Gentiles had the same share in this divine favour with themselves; for they say z, that

"God works by way of miracle, that rain should not be wanting in his land, although it is wanting in the countries of the Heathen; as he says, Job 5:10 "who giveth rain on the earth", which is the land of Israel; for on that רב מטר, "a great rain" descends, and "sendeth waters", מעטים, "few (which is added to the text) upon the fields"; which relates to what is without the land, whereupon it does not descend, but the substance of the land of Israel; therefore he saith, the Lord will open to thee his good treasure, and not to others.''

u Sepher Shaar Hassamaim, Tract. 7. c. 12. p. 155. x T. Bab. Taanith, fol. 7. 1. y T. Hieros. Beracot, fol. 14. 1. & Taanith, fol. 64. 2. z Tzeror Hammor, fol. 152. 4.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

That ye may be the children of your Father - In Greek, the sons of your Father. The word “son” has a variety of significations. See the notes at Matthew 1:1. Christians are called the “sons” or “children” of God in several of these senses: as his offspring; as adopted; as his disciples; as imitators of Him. In this passage the word is applied to them because, in doing good to enemies, they resemble God. He makes His sun to rise upon the evil and good, and sends rain, without distinction, on the just and unjust. So His people should show that they imitate or resemble Him, or that they possess His spirit, by doing good in a similar way.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Matthew 5:45. That ye may be the children of your Father — Instead of υιοι children, some MSS., the latter Persic version, and several of the primitive fathers, read ομοιοι, that ye may be like to, or resemble, your Father who is in heaven. This is certainly our Lord's meaning. As a man's child is called his, because a partaker of his own nature, so a holy person is said to be a child of God, because he is a partaker of the Divine nature.

He maketh his sun to rise on the evil — "There is nothing greater than to imitate God in doing good to our enemies. All the creatures of God pronounce the sentence of condemnation on the revengeful: and this sentence is written by the rays of the sun, and with the drops of rain, and indeed by all the natural good things, the use of which God freely gives to his enemies." If God had not loved us while we were his enemies, we could never have become his children: and we shall cease to be such, as soon as we cease to imitate him.