SEV Biblia, Chapter 6:6
Mas t, cuando ores, entra en tu cmara, y cerrada tu puerta, ora a tu Padre que est en secreto; y tu Padre que ve en secreto, te pagar en pblico.
Clarke's Bible Commentary - Matthew 6:6
Verse 6. But thou, when thou prayest] This is a very impressive and emphatic address. But THOU! whosoever thou art, Jew, Pharisee, Christian-enter into thy closet. Prayer is the most secret intercourse of the soul with God, and as it were the conversation of one heart with another. The world is too profane and treacherous to be of the secret. We must shut the door against it: endeavour to forget it, with all the affairs which busy and amuse it. Prayer requires retirement, at least of the heart; for this may be fitly termed the closet in the house of God, which house the body of every real Christian is, 1 Cor. iii. 16. To this closet we ought to retire even in public prayer, and in the midst of company.
Reward thee openly.] What goodness is there equal to this of God to give, not only what we ask, and more than we ask, but to reward even prayer itself! How great advantage is it to serve a prince who places prayers in the number of services, and reckons to his subjects' account, even their trust and confidence in begging all things of him!
John Gill's Bible Commentary
Ver. 6. But thou, when thou prayest, enter into thy closet , etc.] Or chamber, a secret place, fit for private retirement, meditation, and prayer. And when thou hast shut thy door ; see some such like phrases in ( Isaiah 26:20) where they are used to express security, here secrecy. Our Lord does not mean to exclude and condemn public prayer, in joining with few, or more persons, in such service; for he himself directs to it, and approves of it, ( Matthew 18:19,20) but his view is to instruct persons that they should not only pray in public, but in private also; and especially the latter, which is more suitable and fitting for their particular cases, and less liable to pride, hypocrisy, and vanity. Pray to thy Father, which is in secret ; who is invisible; not to be seen with the eyes of the body, but to be approached with a true heart, in faith and fear, through his Son Jesus Christ, the only mediator between God and man; and who is the image of the invisible God, and in whom he is pleased to manifest himself to his people, so as he does not unto the world: and thy Father, which seeth in secret , observes and takes notice of the secret breathings, pantings, desires, and requests of thy heart and lips, shall reward thee openly , both here and hereafter; by pouring into thy bosom all the good things thou hast been praying for, both for time and eternity. This is agreeable to what the Jews sometimes say, that a man ought not to cause his voice to be heard in prayer; but should pray jlb , silently, with a voice that is not heard; and this is the prayer which is daily accepted f396 .
Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 5-8 - It is taken for granted that all who are disciples of Christ pray. Yo may as soon find a living man that does not breathe, as a livin Christian that does not pray. If prayerless, then graceless. The Scribes and Pharisees were guilty of two great faults in prayer vain-glory and vain repetitions. "Verily they have their reward;" if in so great a matter as is between us and God, when we are at prayer, we can look to so poor a thing as the praise of men, it is just that is should be all our reward. Yet there is not a secret, sudden breathin after God, but he observes it. It is called a reward, but it is of grace, not of debt; what merit can there be in begging? If he does no give his people what they ask, it is because he knows they do not nee it, and that it is not for their good. So far is God from being wrough upon by the length or words of our prayers, that the most powerfu intercessions are those which are made with groanings that cannot be uttered. Let us well study what is shown of the frame of mind in whic our prayers should be offered, and learn daily from Christ how to pray.
Greek Textus Receptus
συ 4771 P-2NS δε 1161 CONJ οταν 3752 CONJ προσευχη 4336 5741 V-PNS-2S εισελθε 1525 5628 V-2AAM-2S εις 1519 PREP το 3588 T-ASN ταμιειον 5009 N-NSN σου 4675 P-2GS και 2532 CONJ κλεισας 2808 5660 V-AAP-NSM την 3588 T-ASF θυραν 2374 N-ASF σου 4675 P-2GS προσευξαι 4336 5663 V-ADM-2S τω 3588 T-DSM πατρι 3962 N-DSM σου 4675 P-2GS τω 3588 T-DSM εν 1722 PREP τω 3588 T-DSN κρυπτω 2927 A-DSN και 2532 CONJ ο 3588 T-NSM πατηρ 3962 N-NSM σου 4675 P-2GS ο 3588 T-NSM βλεπων 991 5723 V-PAP-NSM εν 1722 PREP τω 3588 T-DSN κρυπτω 2927 A-DSN αποδωσει 591 5692 V-FAI-3S σοι 4671 P-2DS εν 1722 PREP τω 3588 T-DSN φανερω 5318 A-DSN
Vincent's NT Word Studies
6. Closet (tamieion). See on Luke xii. 3.
Robertson's NT Word Studies
6:6 {Into thy closet} (eis to tameion). The word is a late syncopated form of tamieion from tamias (steward) and the root tam- from temnw, to cut. So it is a store-house, a separate apartment, one's private chamber, closet, or "den" where he can withdraw from the world and shut the world out and commune with God.
