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IVP New Testament Commentary Series – Admonish the Brother or Sister Privately First (18:15)
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IVP New Testament Commentary Series
Matthew
RELATIONSHIPS IN THE KINGDOM (18:1-35)
Discipline and Forgiveness (18:15-35)
Addressing Stumbling Blocks Seriously (18:15-20)
Admonish the Brother or Sister Privately First (18:15)
Admonish the Brother or Sister Privately First (18:15)
Although Jewish teachers preferred that the offender seek forgiveness first, Jewish law also emphasized proper giving and receiving of reproof (as in Sipre Deut. 1.3.2), which continued until the offender repented or decisively repulsed the reprover (Moore 1971:2:153). Rabbis emphasized that reproof was to be private whenever possible (as in b. Sanhedrin 101a); a sage could thus rule that publicly shaming one's fellow warrants exclusion from the coming age (m. 'Abot 3:11). The Dead Sea Scrolls also emphasize this sequence: private reproof, then before witnesses, and finally before the gathered assembly (compare Schiffman 1983:97-98). Public admonition was reserved for the severest of circumstances (compare Gal 2:14).
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