LYF.1a. Observe the parallel between the Genesis Scripture and the Matthean be perfect verse. The Sermon's teachings give guidance toward communing (or walking) with God.
The English perfect is a rendering of the Hebrew tam. Other translations: complete, blameless, guiltless, integrity, peaceful.
One commentator has noted the parallel between Matthew 5:48 and
LYF.1. Recall that when Jesus became the sin of humanity on the cross, he cried out, "My God, My God, why have you forsaken me?!"
LYF.1b.
LYF.2. Henry Smith, a Puritan preacher, wrote:
The English perfect is a rendering of the Hebrew tam. Other translations: complete, blameless, guiltless, integrity, peaceful.
One commentator has noted the parallel between Matthew 5:48 and
Leviticus 19:2
Outside of subtle connotations, one would be hard put to find much distinction between holy and perfect. In fact tam (pronounced tawm) refers to wholeness, which, in English, may connote holiness – an interesting pun. Holiness/wholeness implies the lack of nothing, without blemish.
... You shall be holy: for I, Jehovah your God, am holy.
LYF.1. Recall that when Jesus became the sin of humanity on the cross, he cried out, "My God, My God, why have you forsaken me?!"
LYF.1b.
Habakkuk 1:13
Your eyes are too pure to watch evil, and you cannot view iniquity. Why do you see those who deal treacherously, and hold your tongue when the wicked person devours a man who is more righteous than he?
LYF.2. Henry Smith, a Puritan preacher, wrote:
David prayeth the Lord to create him a new heart, not to correct his old heart, but to create him a new heart; showing that his heart was like an old garment, so rotten and tattered that he could make no good of it by patching or piecing, but even must cut it off, and take a new. Therefore Paul saith, "Cast off the old man;" not pick him and wash him till he be clean, but cast him off and begin anew, as David did. Will ye know what this renewing is? It is the repairing of the image of God, until we be like Adam when he dwelt in Paradise. As there is a whole old man, so there must be a whole new man. The old man must change with the new man, wisdom for wisdom, love for love, fear for fear; his worldly wisdom for heavenly wisdom, his carnal love for spiritual love, his servile fear for Christian fear, his idle thoughts for sanctified works.
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