Tu te assentas para falar contra teu irmão, cobres de calúnias o filho de tua própria mãe.
Salmos 50:20
Comentário de Albert Barnes
Thou sittest and speakest against thy brother – To the general character of falsehood and slander there is now added the fact that they were guilty of this in the most aggravated manner conceivable – against their nearest relations, the members of their own families. They were not only guilty of the crime against neighbors – against strangers – against persons to whom they sustained no near relationship; but against those of their own households – those whose characters, on that account, ought to have been especially dear to them. The words ““thou sittest”” probably refer to the fact that they would do this when enjoying social contact with them; in confidential conversation; when words of peace, and not of slander, might be properly expected. The word “brother” “might” be used as denoting any other man, or any one of the same nation; but the phrase which is added, “thine own mother’s son,” shows that it is here to be taken in the strictest sense.
Thou slanderest – literally, “Thou givest to ruin.” Prof. Alexander renders it, “Thou wilt aim a blow.” The Septuagint, the Vulgate, Luther, and DeWette understand it of slander.
Thine own mother’s son – It is to be remembered that where polygamy prevailed there would be many children in the same family who had the same father, but not the same mother. The nearest relationship, therefore, was where there was the same mother as well as the same father. To speak of a brother, in the strictest sense, and as implying the nearest relationship, it would be natural to speak of one as having the same mother. The idea here is, that while professing religion, and performing its external rites with the most scrupulous care, they were guilty of the basest crimes, and showed an entire want of moral principle and of natural affection. External worship, however zealously performed, could not be acceptable in such circumstances to a holy God.
Comentário de E.W. Bullinger
filho de sua própria mãe. Figura da fala Perifrasis , para enfatizar.
Referências Cruzadas
Levítico 19:16 – “Não espalhem calúnias entre o seu povo. “Não se levantem contra a vida do seu próximo. Eu sou o Senhor.
Salmos 31:18 – Sejam emudecidos os seus lábios mentirosos, pois com arrogância e desprezo humilham os justos.
Provérbios 10:18 – Quem esconde o ódio tem lábios mentirosos, e quem espalha calúnia é tolo.
Mateus 5:11 – “Bem-aventurados serão vocês quando, por minha causa os insultarem, perseguirem e levantarem todo tipo de calúnia contra vocês.
Mateus 10:21 – “O irmão entregará à morte o seu irmão, e o pai o seu filho; filhos se rebelarão contra seus pais e os matarão.
Lucas 22:65 – E lhe dirigiam muitas outras palavras de insulto.
1 Timóteo 3:11 – As mulheres igualmente sejam dignas, não caluniadoras, mas sóbrias e confiáveis em tudo.
Tito 2:3 – Semelhantemente, ensine as mulheres mais velhas a serem reverentes na sua maneira de viver, a não serem caluniadoras nem escravizadas a muito vinho, mas a serem capazes de ensinar o que é bom.
Apocalipse 12:10 – Então ouvi uma forte voz do céu que dizia: “Agora veio a salvação, o poder e o Reino do nosso Deus, e a autoridade do seu Cristo, pois foi lançado fora o acusador dos nossos irmãos, que os acusa diante do nosso Deus, dia e noite.
