And the door was shut. After the final day of judgment, there will be no room for prayers and good works. (St. Jerome) --- For, after having received those within its walls, who have put on in some degree the nature of the angels, the gate to the city of bliss is closed for ever. (St. Augustine)
Verse Matthew 25:10. _WHILE THEY WENT TO BUY, THE BRIDEGROOM CAME_] What a dismal thing it is, not to discover the emptiness of one's heart of all that is good, till it is too late to make any success...
WENT IN WITH HIM TO THE MARRIAGE - The “marriage-feast.” The marriage ceremony took place before the bride left her father’s house, but a feast was given at the house of her husband, which was also ca...
CHAPTER 25 _ 1. The Parable of the Ten Virgins. (Matthew 25:1 .) 2. The Parable of the Servants and the Talents. (Matthew 25:14 .) 3. The Judgment of Nations. (Matthew 25:31 .)_ The second parable is...
MATTHEW 24:42 TO MATTHEW 25:13. Abbreviating Mark 13:33, with its simile of the absent householder, into one verse (Matthew 24:42; _cf._
THE FATE OF THE UNPREPARED (Matthew 25:1-13)...
"What will happen in the Kingdom of Heaven is like the situation which arose when ten virgins took their lamps and went out to meet the bridegroom. Five of them were foolish and five were wise. The fo...
WENT: were on their way. MARRIAGE. marriage, or wedding feast; as in Matthew 22:2; Matthew 22:3; Matthew 22:4....
_went in with him to the marriage_ Rather, TO THE MARRIAGE FEAST. The happiness of the blest is often described by the image of a great supper, cp. ch. Matthew 26:29....
THE PARABLE OF THE TEN VIRGINS In St Matthew only....
ΕἸΣ ΤΟῪΣ ΓΆΜΟΥΣ. To the marriage feast, as ch. Matthew 22:2. The happiness of the blest is often described by the image of a great supper, cp. ch. Matthew 26:29....
Ver 1. "Then shall the kingdom of heaven be likened unto ten virgins, which took their lamps, and went forth to meet the bridegroom. 2. And five of them were wise, and five were foolish. 3. They that...
_THE PREPARED AND THE UNPREPARED VIRGINS MATTHEW 25:1-13:_ The primary subject this chapter has to do with is the final judgment. Matthew 24 ended with the need to be prepared for the sudden and unexp...
ΆΠΕΡΧΟΜΈΝΩΝ _praes. med. (dep.) part. от_ ΆΠΈΡΧΟΜΑΙ (G565) уходить. Part, в роли _gen. abs._ "После того как они ушли" ΆΓΟΡΆΣΑΙ _aor. act. inf. от_ ΆΓΟΡΆΖΩ (G59) покупать. _Inf._ выражает цель, ΉΛΘΕ...
DISCOURSE: 1396 THE TEN VIRGINS Matthew 25:10. _And they that were ready went in with him to the marriage: and the door was shut_. TOWARDS the close of his ministry our Lord insisted much upon the ve...
4. ILLUSTRATION OF THE TEN WISE AND FOOLISH BRIDESMAIDS (25:1-13) 1 Then shall the kingdom of heaven be likened unto ten virgins, who took their lamps, and went forth to meet the bridegroom. 2 And fiv...
And while they went to buy, the bridegroom came; and they that were ready went in with him to the marriage: and the door was shut. AND WHILE THEY WENT TO BUY, THE BRIDEGROOM CAME; AND THEY THAT WER...
1 The parable of the ten virgins applies only to the kingdom at the time specified. When the Lord comes in glory to enter into covenant relationship with Israel at the commencement of the day of Jehov...
THE TEN VIEGINS. THE TALENTS. THE SHEEP AND THE GOATS The whole of this a, which is entirely concerned with the Second Advent, and contains some of the most striking of all Christ's sayings, is pecul...
AND THE DOOR WAS SHUT] viz. the door of heaven....
PARABLE OF THE TEN VIRGINS. Professing Christians, who alone are addressed here, are warned of the absolute need of sufficient oil, i.e. of sufficient depth and reality in the spiritual life, if they...
MATTHEW’S GOOD NEWS MATTHEW’S *GOSPEL _HILDA BRIGHT_ CHAPTER 25 THE STORY ABOUT THE TEN YOUNG WOMEN 25:1-13 V1 ‘At that time, it will be like this where God rules: Ten young women took their la...
WHILE THEY WENT TO BUY. — The words imply that had they gone earlier, as the wise virgins, by hypothesis, had done, all would have been well. The mistake lay in their not having gone before. It is too...
CHAPTER 18 The Prophecy on the Mount - Matthew 24:1 & Matthew 25:1 WE have seen that though the Saviour's public ministry is now closed, He still has a private ministry to discharge-a ministry of cou...
ἀπερχομένων, etc. The foolish took the advice and went to buy, and _in so doing acted in character_; foolish in that as in not having a good supply of oil. _They should have gone on without oil_, the...
_Parable of the Ten Virgins_, in Mt. only....
BE READY FOR THE BRIDEGROOM Matthew 25:1-13 Three remarkable parables occupy this chapter and follow a marked sequence of thought. First, we are called upon to look to ourselves, and be sure that we...
"Then." This gives us the time in which the Kingdom of Heaven will be likened unto ten virgins. That Kingdom passes through many phases, but just before the coming of the King this will be its charact...
CHAPTER 21 COMING OF THE LORD Matthew 25:1-13. _“Then shall the kingdom of the heavens be likened unto ten virgins, who, having taken their lamps, went out to meet the Bridegroom.”_ Throughout the Bi...
"Then shall the kingdom of heaven be likened unto ten virgins, which took their lamps, and went forth to meet the bridegroom. (2) And five of them were wise, and five were foolish. (3) They that were...
We now enter on the Lord's final presentation of Himself to Jerusalem, traced, however, from Jericho; that is, from the city which had once been the stronghold of the power of the Canaanite. The Lord...
_THE PENALTY OF NEGLECT_ ‘And while they went … the door was shut.’ Matthew 25:10 The ten virgins represent the professing Church, for the framing of the parable excludes those who are living in to...
_THE CLOSED DOOR_ ‘And the door was shut.’ Matthew 25:10 Very solemn tone in these words, even standing alone; this feeling increases when you see in what connection they occur. They are not words...
10._And the door was shut. _At length it follows that _the door _of the heavenly kingdom _will be shut _against all who have not made provision, because they failed in the middle of the course. We mus...
Professors, during the Lord's absence, are here presented as virgins, who went out to meet the Bridegroom, and light Him to the house. In this passage He is not the Bridegroom of the church. No others...
AND WHILE THEY WENT TO BUY,.... The foolish virgins so far took the advice of the wise, as to go forth to buy oil for themselves: they not only had some thoughts about it, and resolutions to do it, bu...
And while they went to buy, the bridegroom came; and they that were ready went in with him to the marriage: and the door was shut. Ver. 10. _And they that were ready went in, &c._] The bridegroom wai...
_While they went to buy_ While they made some unsuccessful efforts to obtain oil, and light their lamps; _the bridegroom came, and they that were ready_ They who had put on the wedding- garment, who h...
THE BRIDEGROOM CAME; representing Christ as coming before the wicked are ready. THE DOOR WAS SHUT; all opportunity of preparing to meet Christ ceases at death....
The coming of the bridegroom:...
AND. WHILE THEY WENT TO BUY, THE BRIDEGROOM CAME; AND THEY THAT WERE READY WENT IN WITH HIM TO THE MARRIAGE; AND THE DOOR WAS SHUT. After an unusually long delay, after they had almost given up all ho...
"Then," that is, at the time when things must be brought to their proper conclusion, "shall the kingdom of heaven be likened unto ten virgins." These take lamps to go forth to meet the bridegroom. The...
1-13 The circumstances of the parable of the ten virgins were taken from the marriage customs among the Jews, and explain the great day of Christ's coming. See the nature of Christianity. As Christia...
SEE POOLE ON "MATTHEW 25:13"....
Clement of Alexandria Stromata Book VI But "it is enough for the disciple to become as the Master,"[220]...
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THE PARABLE OF THE TEN VIRGINS Another emphasis on the fact that all must be ready for His second coming is found in this parable. It is the parable of ten maidens who were to go out to meet the bride...
‘And while they went away to buy, the bridegroom came, and they those who were ready went in with him to the marriage feast, and the door was shut.' For while the foolish went off to seek what was ne...
Matthew 25:10. AND WHILE THEY WENT AWAY TO BUY. They kept up their endeavor to the very last (see Matthew 25:11), but probably did not get a supply of oil at that late hour. THEY THAT WERE READY (_i....
THE PARABLE OF THE TEN VIRGINS. Closely joined to the preceding one. Its leading idea is the readiness of the Church for the coming of the Lord. See the closing exhortation (Matthew 25:13). The last p...
AND WHILE THEY WENT AWAY (απερχομενων δε αυτων). Present middle participle, genitive absolute, while they were going away, descriptive linear action. Picture of their inevitable folly.WAS SHUT (ε...
Matthew 25:10 I. Who are ready? All are not ready. This parable shows that all who make a profession of being Christ's are not ready. The foolish virgins appeared to be ready. They had their robe, the...
Matthew 25:1 Here is one of the larger and grander pictures in this gallery of various glory. It is sublime in its ample outline, and exquisitely tender in its details. It is charged with many precio...
Matthew 25:10 Note three sad features of the foolish virgins' case which the text presents.. I. Their Neglect. Having equipped themselves duly for taking part in the wedding march, by kindling their...
Matthew 25:1. _Then shall the kingdom of heaven be likened unto ten virgins, which took their lamps, and went forth to meet the bridegroom. And five of them were wise, And five were foolish._ What a...
Matthew 25:1. _Then shall the kingdom of heaven be likened unto ten virgins, which took their lamps, and went forth to meet the bridegroom._ And five of them were wise, and five were foolish. They th...
CONTENTS: Parables of the wise and foolish virgins. Testing of the servants in the Lord's absence. Future testing of the Gentile nations at the Lord's return. CHARACTERS: God, Jesus, disciples. CONCL...
Matthew 25:1. _Ten virgins took their lamps to meet the bridegroom._ Homer names the like custom among the Greeks, of the bridegroom being preseded by virgins bearing lighted torches. The virgins repr...
WHILE THEY WERE GONE. If they had started earlier, they would have had time. The door of the Kingdom is open wide now, but it must close one day....
_Then shall the kingdom of heaven be likened unto ten virgins._ THE TEN VIRGINS I. We have here two characters contrasted. “Five were wise and five were foolish.” That we may define the difference b...
_And the door was shut._ THE SHUT DOOR I. Exclusion. 1. Necessary for the sake of the redeemed. One guest who does not enter into the spirit of your festivity robs your friends of their joy. 2. Ne...
1-40 CHAPTER 25 _Then_... _which went out to meet the bridegroom and the bride_ (Vulg.). _And the bride_ is not found in the Greek, nor in S. Chrysostom. It is the reading of the Latin and the Syria...
_CRITICAL NOTES_ Matthew 25:1. THEN SHALL THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN.—The three parables of this chapter appear here as in closest sequence to the great discourse of chap. 24, and are as its natural conclu...
EXPOSITION MATTHEW 25:1 _Parable of the ten virgins. _(Peculiar to St. Matthew.) This parable, as a continuation of the teaching of the last chapter, sets forth the necessity of having and retaining...
Shall we turn now to Matthew's gospel chapter twenty-five? In the twenty-fourth chapter of Matthew's gospel the disciples came to Jesus and asked Him what would be the signs that would precede the des...
1 Peter 1:13; 2 Timothy 4:8; Amos 8:12; Amos 8:13; Colossians 1:12;...
And while they went [α π ε ρ χ ο μ ε ν ω ν]. A present participle, and very graphic : while they are going away. They that were ready [α ι ε τ ο ι μ ο ι]. Lit., the ready or prepared ones. To the mar...
Observe here, 1. Christ will come at the great day to his people as. Bridegroom, and to the wicked as. Judge. The relation now begun betwixt Christ and his church shall then be publicly solemnized. Ob...