The Pulpit Commentary on Matthew 5:37

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Your communication. Similarly, the Authorized Version in Ephesians 4:29, in archaic usage for "talk." Yea, yea; Nay, nay. Christ permits as far as the repetition of the asseveration. The adoption here by a few authorities of the phrase in James 5:12 ("Let your yea be yea; and your nay, nay," τὸ ναὶ ναὶ κ.

τ.λ..)is unsuitable; for here the question is not of truthfulness, but of fervency in asseveration. Whatsoever is more than these; "that which is over and above these" (Rheims). There is a superfluity ( περισσόν) in more fervent asseverations, which has its origin ἐκ τοῦ πονηροῖ.

Cometh of evil. So the Revised Version margin, "as in verse 39; 6:13.' Revised Version, is of the evil one (vide Matthew 6:13, note; and of. 1 John 3:12).

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