only when he sees it to be proper. To give to those who “ask amiss” (James 4:3) would be no real kindness to them—nor in us. As in v. 45 and elsewhere, God’s example explains the meaning of his precepts. 43. Here begins the fifth and last example (see on v. 21), viz., LOVE OF ENEMIES. This is closely related to the preceding. (v. 38–42.) Stier: “As this is to close the distinctive reference to the commandments, it is not one of the individual commandments of the Decalogue which is introduced, as