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For most assuredly I tell you, whoever may tell this mountain, `Be taken up and cast into the sea,` and doesn`t doubt in his heart, but believes that what he says happens; he shall have whatever he says.
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A Figurative Mountain
Commentators agree that Jesus, while likely gesturing to the physical Mount of Olives, was speaking figuratively. The 'mountain' represents any seemingly insurmountable difficulty. Matthew Henry extends this application to spiritual 'mountains,' such as the guilt of sin or deep-rooted corruption, which faith in Christ can remove.
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Shall not doubt in his heart (μη διακριθη εν τη καρδια αυτου). First aorist passive subjunctive with ος αν. The verb means a divid…
19th Century
Anglican
Those things . . . he shall have whatsoever he says.—The better manuscripts give, “that the thing which he says …
Since Jesus was standing on the Mount of Olives, from which the Dead Sea can be seen on a clear day, he may have been referring specifically to thi…
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
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Presbyterian
The disciples could not understand why that fig tree should wither away so soon; but all who reject Christ wither. It represented the state of the …
