And
every one that has forsaken houses, or brothers, or sisters, or father,
or mother, or wife (ἤ γυναῖκα), or children, or lands, for my name's sake, shall
receive a hundred times more, and shall inherit everlasting life.
Verse 29. - ....." Some manuscripts, followed by some modern editors, omit or wife,
the omission being probably first made by some critical scribe, who
deemed that a wife should never be left. The Lord enumerates the persons
and objects upon which men's hearts are most commonly and firmly fixed.
He begins and ends the list with material possessions - houses and
lands, and between them introduces in gradation the most cherished
members of the family circle. "Forsaking wife and children" may be
understood as abstaining from marriage in order the better to serve God.
For my Name's sake. In consequence of
belief in Christ, rather than do despite to his grace, or in order to
confess and follow him more completely........ An hundredfold. Some read "manifold," as in Luke 18:30.
The spiritual relationship into which religion would introduce him
largely compensates for the loss of earthly connections. He shall have
brothers and sisters in the faith - hundreds who will show him the
affection of father and mother, hundreds who will love him as well as
wife and children. ..........
The hope of future happiness is in itself sufficient to lighten and
dissipate all earthly troubles, and to stimulate severest sacrifices."
This verse is a proof that the bible is altered according to scribes' own desires.
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