Teks -- Matthew 18:14 (NET)

18:14 In the same way, your Father in heaven is not willing that one of these little ones be lost.

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Robertson: Mat 18:14 - The will of your Father

The will of your Father ( thelēma emprosthen ).

Observe that Westcott and Hort read mou here rather than hūmōn after B Sahidic Coptic. Either makes good sense, though "your"carries on the picture of God’ s care for "each one of these little ones"(hen tōn mikrōn toutōn ) among God’ s children. The use of emprosthen with thelēma is a Hebraism like emprosthen sou in Mat 11:25 with eudokia , "before the face"of God.

Vincent: Mat 18:14 - The will of your Father

The will of your Father ( θέλημα ἔμπροσθεν τοῦ πατρὸς ὑμῶν )

Though some read my Father (μοῦ ). Lit., There is not a will before your (my) Father. So Wyc., It is not will before your Father. Meyer paraphrases, There is not before the face of God any determination having as its object that one of these, etc.

Wesley: Mat 18:14 - So it is not the will of your Father

Neither doth my Father despise the least of them. Observe the gradation. The angels, the Son, the Father.

JFB: Mat 18:14 - Even so it is not the will of your Father which is in heaven that one of these little ones should perish

How, then, can He but visit for those "offenses" which endanger the souls of these little ones?

Clarke: Mat 18:14 - It is not the will of your Father

It is not the will of your Father - If any soul be finally lost, it is not because God’ s will or counsel was against its salvation, or that a proper provision had not been made for it; but that, though light came into the world, it preferred darkness to light, because of its attachment to its evil deeds.

Defender: Mat 18:14 - little ones

God is not willing that any should perish (2Pe 3:9), but many will perish, for "the wages of sin is death" (Rom 6:23). Most people will not come to Christ for forgiveness and salvation. But if "little ones" die physically before they become conscious sinners, they are safe in Christ. Although they inherit the sin nature of Adam, Christ has covered their inherited sin with His own shed blood, and they have committed no other sin. Therefore, their Father in heaven will not allow them to perish spiritually if they should die physically. Note David's confidence concerning the death of his infant son (2Sa 12:23)."

TSK: Mat 18:14 - it is // your // one

it is : Luk 12:32; Joh 6:39, Joh 6:40, Joh 10:27-30, Joh 17:12; Rom 8:28-39; Eph 1:5-7; 1Pe 1:3-5

your : Mat 5:16, Mat 6:9, Mat 6:32

one : Isa 40:11; Zec 13:7; Joh 21:15; 1Co 8:11-13; 2Ti 2:10; Heb 12:13; 2Pe 3:9

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Poole: Mat 18:12-14

Ver. 12-14. We shall meet with the parable or similitude more fully, Luk 15:4 . To what purpose it is brought here our Lord hath told us, Mat 18:14 , to show us, that it is not the will of our heavenly Father that the least and meanest believer should perish. And every scandal, or offence, (as I before showed), hath a tendency to destroy that soul before whom it is laid, or to which it is given. Take heed, saith our Saviour, of giving scandals and offences to others, yea, though you should have observed them in something slipping and going astray. Will you be more uncharitable to men than you are to the beasts which you keep? You do not thus with a sheep; though it be gone astray you do not despise and neglect it, much less take courses to drive it further. No, you rather leave the rest, as being safe, and go, though it be into the mountains, to recover the sheep that is lost; and if you find it, have a greater passion of joy for that one sheep so recovered than for all the other. If you see some error in any of my sheep, if they do wander, should it not be your care rather to restore such in the spirit of meekness, as Gal 6:1 , than to lay further stumbling blocks before them, and give them occasion of further stumbling and falling? My Father hath done so for lost man: my coming to seek and to save that which is lost, is an evidence to you that it is not his will that one of my little ones should be lost.

Haydock: Mat 18:14 - Even so it is not

Even so it is not. Here some may perhaps object, that since the Almighty does not wish any of his little ones to perish, he must consequently wish all to be saved, and therefore that all will be saved. Now this is not the case: the will of the Almighty is therefore sometimes frustrated in its effects, which is contrary to Scripture. To this objection, St. John Damascene replies, that in God we must distinguish two distinct wills; the one antecedent, the other consequent. A person wills a thing antecedently, when he wills it merely as considered in itself. For instance, a prince wishes his subjects to live, in as much as they are all his subjects. But a person wills a thing consequently, when he will a thing in consideration of some particular circumstance. Thus, though the king wishes all his subject to live, he nevertheless wills that some should die, if they turn traitors, or disorganize the peace of society. In the same manner, the Almighty wishes none of his little ones to perish, in as much as they are all his creatures, made to his own image, and destined for the kingdom of glory; though it is equally certain that he wills the eternal punishment of many who have turned away from his service, and followed iniquity. If we observe this distinction, it is easy to see what our Saviour meant, when he said that it was not the will of his Father that any of these little ones should perish. (St. John Damascene)

Gill: Mat 18:14 - Even so it is not the will of your father which is in heaven // that one of these little ones // should perish

Even so it is not the will of your father which is in heaven,.... This is the accommodation, or application of the parable of the lost sheep to the present purpose, and is the top of the climax or gradation here made use of. First, Christ observes, in order to deter any from despising and offending any of his disciples, even the meanest, that they have angels to be their guardians, who are continually in the presence of God; and next, that he himself in human nature came to be the author of salvation to these persons; and then rises up to the sovereign will of his Father, and their's, the source and security of their everlasting happiness; which will is, not

that one of these little ones, that believe in Christ,

should perish. It is his will of command that no stumbling block should be laid in their way to cause them to stumble and fall, to the grieving of their souls, the wounding of their consciences, and the perishing, or loss of their peace and comfort; and it is his unalterable will of purpose, or his unchangeable decree, that not one of them, even the meanest, shall perish eternally: in pursuance of which will, he has chosen them in his Son, he has put them into his hands, and secured them in his covenant; and having redeemed them by Christ, and called them by grace, he keeps them by his power, through faith unto salvation. Nor shall anyone of them finally and totally fall away and perish, through the power of their own corruptions, the temptations of Satan, the reproaches and persecutions of men, the frowns or flatteries of the world, or through the errors and heresies of false teachers, or any other way. It is to be observed, that when our Lord, in Mat 18:10, is speaking of the happiness of the angels, and the honour done to the little ones by having such guardians; then the more to aggrandize this matter, he represents those as in the presence of his "Father which is in heaven"; but here, when he would express the wonderful love and grace of God, in the resolutions of his heart, and purposes of his will, to save them, then it is "your Father which is in heaven"; and this, the rather to engage them to the belief of it, since they stood in such a near relation to him, as children to a father: and therefore must be infinitely more concerned for their welfare, than a proprietor of sheep can be, for one that is lost. The Arabic and Ethiopic versions indeed read, "my father", but without any authority; for the phraseology, "the will before your Father", as in the original text; see Gill on Mat 11:26