Basta ao discípulo ser tratado como seu mestre, e ao servidor como seu patrão. Se chamaram de Beelzebul ao pai de família, quanto mais o farão às pessoas de sua casa!
Mateus 10:25
Comentário de E.W. Bullinger
suficiente = suficiente.
ser = tornar-se.
ligou. Todos os textos lidos “têm sobrenome” .
Belzebu. Aramaico, Beelzeboul. App-94.
Belzebu = o senhor das moscas ( 2 Reis 1: 2 ), era o deus dos ecronitas. Foi mudado em desprezo pelos israelitas para Baalzebel, senhor do dunghill, e daí usado para o príncipe dos demônios.
eles devem ligar. Esses itálicos são desnecessários.
eles da sua casa. Grego. oikiakos. Ocorre apenas aqui, e Mateus 10:36 .
Comentário de John Calvin
25. If they have called the master of the house Beelzebub This is equivalent to calling himself Lord of the Church, as the apostle, when comparing him to Moses and the prophets, ( Hebrews 3:1 ,) says, that they were servants, but that he is the Son and heir. Though he bestows on them the honor of calling them brethren, ( Hebrews 2:11 ,) yet he is the first-born ( Romans 8:29 ) and head of the whole church; and, in short, he possesses supreme government and power. Nothing, therefore, can be more unreasonable than to wish to be accounted believers, and yet to murmur against God when he conforms us to the image of his Son, whom he has placed over all his family. To what sort of delicacy do we pretend, if we wish to hold a place in his house, and to be above the Lord himself? The general meaning is, that we carry our delicacy and tenderness to excess, if we account it a hardship to endure reproaches to which our Prince willingly submitted.
Beelzebub is a corrupted term, and would have been more correctly written Baalzebub . This was the name given to the chief of the false gods of the Philistines, who was worshipped by the inhabitants of Ekron, ( 2 Kings 1:2 .) Baalim was the name of the inferior deities, whom the Papists of our day call patrons . Now, as Baalzebub means the patron of the fly, or of the flies, some have thought that he was so called on account of the great multitude of flies in the temple, occasioned by the number of sacrifices; but I rather conjecture that the assistance of the idol was implored against the flies which infested that place. When Ahazlah, under the influence of superstition, applied to him to be informed about his recovery, he gave him this name, which would appear from that circumstance not to be a term of reproach. But as the name gehenna was applied by holy men to hell, in order to stamp that place with infamy, so, in order to express their hatred and detestation of the idol, they gave the name Beelzebub to the devil. Hence we infer that wicked men, for the purpose of rendering Christ detestable to the multitude, employed the most reproachful term which they could invent, by calling him the devil, or, in other words, the greatest enemy of religion. If we happen to be assailed by the same kind of reproach, we ought not to think it strange, that what began in the head should be completed in the members.
Comentário de Adam Clarke
It is enough for the disciple that he be as his master – Can any man who pretends to be a scholar or disciple of Jesus Christ, expect to be treated well by the world? Will not the world love its own, and them only? Why, then, so much impatience under sufferings, such an excessive sense of injuries, such delicacy? Can you expect any thing from the world better than you receive? If you want the honor that comes from it, abandon Jesus Christ, and it will again receive you into its bosom. But you will, no doubt, count the cost before you do this. Take the converse, abandon the love of the world, etc., and God will receive you.
Beelzebub – This name is variously written in the MSS. Beelzebaul, Beelzeboun, Beelzebud, but there is a vast majority in favor of the reading Beelzebul, which should, by all means, be inserted in the text instead of Beelzebub. See the reasons below.
It is supposed that this idol was the same with ???? ??? Baalzebub the god fly, worshipped at Ekron, 2 Kings 1:2 , etc., who had his name changed afterwards by the Jews to ???? ??? Baal zebul , the dung god, a title expressive of the utmost contempt. It seems probable that the worship of this vile idol continued even to the time of our Lord; and the title, being applied by the Jews to our blessed Lord, affords the strongest proof of the inveteracy of their malice.
Dr. Lightfoot has some useful observations on this subject, which I shall take the liberty to subjoin.
“For the searching out the sense of this horrid blasphemy, these things are worthy observing,
“I. Among the Jews it was held, in a manner, for a matter of religion, to reproach idols, and to give them odious names. R. Akibah saith, Idolatry pollutes, as it is said, Thou shalt cast away the (idol) as something that is abominable, and thou shalt say to it, Get thee hence: ( Isaiah 30:22 ;). R. Lazar saith, Thou shalt say to it, Get thee hence: that which they call the face of God, let them call the face of a dog. That which they call ??? ??? ein cos , the Fountain Of A Cup, let them call ??? ??? ein kuts , the Fountain Of Toil (or of flails). That which they call ???? gediyah , Fortune, let them call ????? geliya , a Stink, etc. That town which sometimes was called Bethel, was afterwards called Bethaven. See also the tract Schabbath.
“II. Among the ignominious names bestowed upon idols, the general and common one was ???? Zebul , Dung, or a Dunghill. ‘Even to them that have stretched out their hands ????? bezebul in a dunghill, (that is, in an idol temple, or in idolatry), there is hope. Thou canst not bring them (into the Church) because they have stretched forth their hands bezebul , in a dunghill. But yet you cannot reject them, because they have repented.’ And a little after, He that sees them dunging, ?????? (that is, sacrificing), to an idol, let him say, Cursed be he that sacrifices to a strange god. Let them, therefore, who dare, form this word in Matthew into Beelzebub. I am so far from doubting that the Pharisees pronounced the word Beelzebul, and that Matthew so wrote it, that I doubt not but the sense fails if it be writ otherwise.
“III. Very many names of evil spirits, or devils, occur in the Talmud, which it is needless here to mention. Among all the devils, they esteemed that devil the worst, the foulest, as it were, the prince of the rest, who ruled over the idols, and by whom oracles and miracles were given forth among the Heathens and idolaters. And they were of this opinion for this reason, because they held idolatry, above all other things, chiefly wicked and abominable, and to be the prince and head of evil. This demon they called ???? ??? Baal – zebul , not so much by a proper name, as by one more general and common; as much as to say, the lord of idolatry: the worst devil, and the worst thing: and they called him the prince of devils, because idolatry is the prince (or chief) of wickedness.”
Comentário de Scofield
Belzebu
Belzebu, título de uma divindade pagã.
Comentário de John Wesley
É suficiente para o discípulo que ele seja como seu mestre, e o servo como seu senhor. Se eles chamaram o dono da casa Belzebu, quanto mais os chamarão de sua casa?
Quanto mais – Isso não pode se referir à quantidade de reprovação e perseguição: (pois nisso o servo não pode estar acima de seu senhor :), mas apenas à certeza disso. Mateus 12:24 .