Commentaries:
Robertson's Word Pictures (NT)
Lay not up for yourselves treasures (mh qhsaurizete umin qhsaurouv). Do not have this habit (mh and the present imperative). See on Matthew 2:11 for the word "treasure." Here there is a play on the word, "treasure not for yourselves treasures." Same play in verse Matthew 6:20 with the cognate accusative. In both verses umin is dative of personal interest and is not reflexive, but the ordinary personal pronoun. Wycliff has it: "Do not treasure to you treasures."
Break through (diorussousin). Literally "dig through." Easy to do through the mud walls or sun-dried bricks. Today they can pierce steel safes that are no longer safe even if a foot thick. The Greeks called a burglar a "mud-digger" (toixoruxov).
Other commentary entries containing this verse:
Luke 12:21
Luke 12:33
John 6:27
Acts 20:33
Romans 2:5
1 Corinthians 16:2
2 Corinthians 4:7
2 Corinthians 12:14
Colossians 2:3
1 Timothy 6:18
1 Timothy 6:19
2 Timothy 1:12
Hebrews 8:13
Hebrews 10:34
Hebrews 11:26
James 4:14
James 5:2
James 5:3
1 Peter 1:4
2 Peter 3:7
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