the Week of Proper 9 / Ordinary 14
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马太福音 6:3
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你 施 舍 的 时 候 ， 不 要 叫 左 手 知 道 右 手 所 做 的 ，
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
let: Matthew 8:4, Matthew 9:30, Matthew 12:19, Mark 1:44, John 7:4
Reciprocal: Proverbs 21:14 - in secret Matthew 25:37 - when Acts 5:2 - laid 1 Timothy 5:25 - cannot
Cross-References
The number of people on earth began to grow, and daughters were born to them.
he said to Noah, "Because people have made the earth full of violence, I will destroy all of them from the earth.
Build a boat of cypress wood for yourself. Make rooms in it and cover it inside and outside with tar.
This is how big I want you to build the boat: four hundred fifty feet long, seventy-five feet wide, and forty-five feet high.
Make an opening around the top of the boat that is eighteen inches high from the edge of the roof down. Put a door in the side of the boat. Make an upper, middle, and lower deck in it.
But I will make an agreement with you—you, your sons, your wife, and your sons' wives will all go into the boat.
Two of every kind of bird, animal, and crawling thing will come to you to be kept alive.
I will come down and speak with you there. I will take some of the Spirit that is in you, and I will give it to them. They will help you care for the people so that you will not have to care for them alone.
You were patient with them for many years and warned them by your Spirit through the prophets, but they did not pay attention. So you handed them over to other countries.
He remembered that they were only human, like a wind that blows and does not come back.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
But when thou dost alms,.... Do it so privately, and with so much secrecy, that, if it was possible, thou mightest not know it thyself, much less make it known to others:
let not thy left hand know what thy right hand doth; acquaint not thy nearest and dearest friend with it; let not one that sits at thy left hand know what thou art doing with thy right hand; it is a proverbial and hyperbolical phrase, expressing the secrecy of the action. It is a Jewish canon p, that
"he that gives a gift to his friend out of love, may make it known, ××× ×× ×צ×ק×, "but not if it be by way of alms".''
p Piske Tosephot in Sabbat. c. 1. art. 134.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
Let not thy left hand know ... - This is a proverbial expression, signifying that the action should be done as secretly as possible. The Hebrews often attribute actions to members which properly belong to persons. The encouragement for performing our acts of charity in secret is that it will be pleasing to God; that he will see the act, however secret it may be, and will openly reward it. If the reward is not granted in this life, it will be in the life to come. In multitudes of cases, however, alms given to the poor are âlent to the Lordâ Proverbs 19:17, and will be repaid in this life. Rarely, perhaps never, has it been found that the man who is liberal to the poor has ever suffered by it in his worldly circumstances.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Matthew 6:3. Let not thy left hand know — In many cases, works of charity must be hidden from even our nearest relatives, who, if they knew, would hinder us from doing what God has given us power and inclination to perform. We must go even farther; and conceal them as far as is possible from ourselves, by not thinking of them, or eyeing them with complacency. They are given to GOD, and should be hidden in HIM.
