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Fill up, then, the measure of your fathers.
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A Terrible, Ironic Command
Commentators agree that Jesus is not literally commanding the Pharisees to sin. Instead, He is using what scholars call "keenest irony" to expose their murderous hearts. It's a defiant prediction, like saying, "Go on, act out your true nature and finish the evil work your ancestors started." This reveals their rebellion was so complete that their path to crucifying Him was set.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
Fill ye up then, etc. This is a prediction of what they were about to do. He would have them act out their true spirit, and show what they…
Fill ye up (πληρωσατε). The keenest irony in this command has been softened in some MSS. to the future indicative (πληρωσετε). "Fi…
19th Century
Anglican
Fill you up then... — The English translation fails to capture the pathetic abruptness of the original: And you—fill …
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Baptist
This is Christ's utterance, let me remind you. Our modern preachers would not talk like this, even to scribes and Pharisees who were crucifying Chr…
The conclusion is defiant and ironical. The idea behind “the measure of the sin” is that God can only tolerate so much sin; then, when the measure …
16th Century
Protestant
Do you then fill up the measure of your fathers. He finally concludes that, in this respect, they have not departed from their fathers’ pa…
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
Fill you up then the measure of your fathers . Of their sins; for there were bounds and limits set how far they shou…
The scribes and Pharisees were enemies of the gospel of Christ, and therefore of the salvation of people's souls. It is bad to keep away from Chris…
13th Century
Catholic
After He instructed the disciples and the multitudes about the caution they should have regarding the Jews' doctrine, He now directs His words to t…