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Mateus 6:7

Listen to Mateus 6:7
7 E, orando, não useis de vãs repetições, como os gentios; porque pensam que pelo seu muito falar serão ouvidos.

Mateus 6:7 Meaning and Commentary

Matthew 6:7

But when ye pray, use not vain repetitions
Saying the same things over and over again,

as the Heathens do,
as the worshippers of Baal, from morning till noon, ( 1 Kings 18:26 ) . This our Lord observes, to dissuade from such practices, because the Gentiles, who were odious to the Jews, used them, and the Jews were guilty of the same; had they not, there would not have been any need of such advice:

for they think they shall be heard for their much speaking;
as did the Jews, who, under pretence of "long prayers", devoured widows' houses; and with whom it is an axiom, that "everyone (hnen hlyptb) (hbrmh) , that multiplies prayer is heard" F8; and whoever prolongs his prayer, his prayer does not return empty; and he that is long in prayer, his days are prolonged F9: and, according to their canons, every day a man ought to pray eighteen prayers. Moreover, their prayer books abound in tautologies, and in expressing the same things in different words, and by a multiplicity of them.


FOOTNOTES:

F8 T. Hieros. Taaniot, fol. 67. 3.
F9 Zohar in Exod. fol. 104. 4.
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Mateus 6:7 In-Context

5 E, quando orardes, não sejais como os hipócritas; pois gostam de orar em pé nas sinagogas, e �s esquinas das ruas, para serem vistos pelos homens. Em verdade vos digo que já receberam a sua recompensa.
6 Mas tu, quando orares, entra no teu quarto e, fechando a porta, ora a teu Pai que está em secreto; e teu Pai, que vê em secreto, te recompensará.
7 E, orando, não useis de vãs repetições, como os gentios; porque pensam que pelo seu muito falar serão ouvidos.
8 Não vos assemelheis, pois, a eles; porque vosso Pai sabe o que vos é necessário, antes de vós lho pedirdes.
9 Portanto, orai vós deste modo: Pai nosso que estás nos céus, santificado seja o teu nome;
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