Matthew 26:33-35 Peter answered and said to him, Though all men shall be offended because of you, yet will I never be offended.… Lie engenders lie. Once committed, the liar has to go on in his course of lying. It is the penalty of his transgression, or one of the penalties. To the habitual liar, bronzed and hardened in the custom, till custom becomes second nature, the penalty may seem no very terrible price to pay. To him, on the other hand, who, without deliberate intent, and against his innermost will, is overtaken with such a fault, the generative power of a first lie to beget others, the necessity of supporting the first by a second and a third, is a retribution keenly to be felt, while penitently owned to be most just. (F. Jacox.) Parallel Verses KJV: Peter answered and said unto him, Though all men shall be offended because of thee, yet will I never be offended. |
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