Mateus 23:10

10 Nem queirais ser chamados guias; porque um só é o vosso Guia, que é o Cristo.

Mateus 23:10 Meaning and Commentary

Matthew 23:10

Neither be ye called masters
Or guides and leaders; not but that, the ministers of the word are in a sense such; it is their business to lead and direct souls to Christ, to guide their feet in the way of peace, and to go before them, as examples to them, in word, in conversation, faith, and purity; but then they are to guide them according to the word of God, and not their own dictates; and teach them to observe the rules, and obey the ordinances of Christ, and not what are of their own inventing and prescribing; and to enforce the authority of their great Lord and Master, and not their own; and direct men to a dependence on Christ, as head of the church, who is the one Lord, as his faith is one, and his baptism one also: "for one is your master, even Christ"; which is said before, in ( Matthew 23:8 ) but being a matter of so much importance to the honour of Christ, and men being so apt to set up for masters themselves, in opposition to him, or in conjunction with him, or above him, it was necessary to repeat it; for in an authoritative sense he is the one, and only master of the assemblies.

Mateus 23:10 In-Context

8 Vós, porém, não queirais ser chamados Rabi; porque um só é o vosso Mestre, e todos vós sois irmãos.

9 E a ninguém sobre a terra chameis vosso pai; porque um só é o vosso Pai, aquele que está nos céus.

10 Nem queirais ser chamados guias; porque um só é o vosso Guia, que é o Cristo.

11 Mas o maior dentre vós há de ser vosso servo.

12 Qualquer, pois, que a si mesmo se exaltar, será humilhado; e qualquer que a si mesmo se humilhar, será exaltado.