Matthew 12:34
O generation of vipers, how can ye, being evil, speak good things? for out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh.
注釈
Study Note
'You brood of vipers! How can you speak good, when you are evil? For out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks' — Jesus's confrontation with the Pharisees after the Beelzebul controversy (12:22–37) articulates a psychological and moral anthropology: speech reveals character because it is drawn from the reservoir of the heart. The term 'abundance' (perisseumatōs, overflow) implies that speech is not crafted but overflows — revealing what is truly present in the inner life. The vipers epithet recalls John the Baptist's identical rebuke (Matthew 3:7), embedding Jesus's critique within the prophetic tradition of confronting religious hypocrisy. The principle has been widely applied in Christian traditions of virtue ethics and spiritual formation: the discipline of speech is inseparable from the transformation of desire and habit.
他の翻訳
Ye offspring of vipers, how can ye, being evil, speak good things? for out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh.
`Brood of vipers! how are ye able to speak good things--being evil? for out of the abundance of the heart doth the mouth speak.
You offspring of snakes, how are you, being evil, able to say good things? because out of the heart's store come the words of the mouth.
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