But I say unto you, That every idle word that men shall speak, they shall give account thereof in the day of judgment.
All Commentaries on Matthew 12:36 Go To Matthew 12
George Leo Haydock
AD 1849
That every idle word. By idle words, St. Jerome expound words that are neither profitable to the speaker nor the hearer: but St. Chrysostom says, false and abusive language. (Witham)
If, of every idle word, how much more of blasphemy, as when you say in Beelzebub I cast out devils. (Menochius)
This shows there must be a place of temporal punishment hereafter, where these slighter faults shall be punished. (Challoner)
If of every idle word we must make account before God in judgment, and yet shall not for every such idle word be damned eternally, there must necessarily be some temporal punishment in the next life. (Bristow)
