Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Matthew 25:44
Then will they answer — So the endeavour to justify themselves, will remain with the wicked even to that day!
Then will they answer — So the endeavour to justify themselves, will remain with the wicked even to that day!
Verse Matthew 25:44. _LORD, WHEN SAW WE THEE AN HUNGERED_, c.] It is want of _faith_ which in general produces _hard-heartedness_ to the poor. The man who only sees with eyes of flesh is never likely...
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...
THE DAY OF JUDGMENT (Mt. only). Though the nations are gathered before the Son of Man as judge, they pass into the background in the trial which is really that of the Christian Church, unless indeed t...
"When the Son of Man shall come in his glory, and an the angels with him, then he will take his seat upon the throne of his glory, and all nations will be assembled before him, and he will separate th...
THE FATE OF THE UNPREPARED (Matthew 25:1-13)...
ΣΟΙ. The position of the personal pronouns throughout is emphatic....
THE DAY OF JUDGMENT...
These verses are constructed according to the rules of Hebrew poetry: they fall into two divisions, the _first_ extends from Matthew 25:34-40, the _second_ from Matthew 25:41-46. Each division consist...
Ver 31. "When the Son of man shall come in his glory, and all the holy angels with him, then shall he sit upon the throne of his glory: 32. And before him shall be gathered all nations: and he shall s...
_THE PREPARED AND UNPREPARED AMONG THE PEOPLE MATTHEW 25:31-46:_ In this portion of scripture the Lord contrasted the saved and the lost. "These will go away into everlasting punishment, but the right...
ΔΙΗΚΟΝΉΣΑΜΕΝ _aor. ind. act. от_ ΔΙΑΚΟΝΈΩ (G1247) служить, прислуживать, заботиться о ком-л., униженно служить; здесь: "мы не дали тебе того, в чем ты нуждался" (LN, 1:462)....
DEPART FROM ME, YE CURSED— What the wicked are here represented as answering, Matthew 25:44 perhaps may only intimate that such will be the language of their hearts; which Christ perceiving, will repl...
6. ILLUSTRATION OF THE SHEEP AND THE GOATS (25:31-46) 31 But when the Son of man shall come in his glory, and all the angels with him, then shall he sit on the throne of his glory: 32 and before him s...
Then shall they also answer him, saying, Lord, when saw we thee an hungred, or athirst, or a stranger, or naked, or sick, or in prison, and did not minister unto thee? THEN SHALL THEY ALSO ANSWER...
29 See Mat_13:12; Luk_:8:18; Joh_15:2. 31 See Mat_19:28; Mar_8:38. 31 The many judgments in the Scriptures should be carefully distinguished as to time and place and participants and the attending ci...
25:44 ministered (a-28) Or 'served.' _ diakoneo_ , as ch. 4.11....
THE LAST JUDGMENT DESCRIBED (peculiar to St. Matthew). Christ here speaks of the judgment of Christians alone, because that was the question which most concerned the Apostles and their future converts...
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...
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...
WHEN SAW WE THEE...? — There is, as before, an unconsciousness of the greatness of the things that had been done for good or evil. Men thought that they were only neglecting their fellow men, and were...
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...
repeats in summary form the reply of the δίκαιοι, _utatis mutandis_, rapidly enumerating the states of need, and disclaiming, with reference to all, neglect of service, οὐ διηκονήσαμέν σοι; Matthew 25...
_The Judgment programme_. Much diversity of opinion has prevailed in reference to this remarkable passage; as to the subjects of the judgment, and the authenticity of this judgment programme as a prof...
κατηραμένοι, cursed, not _the_ cursed (οἱ wanting), and without τοῦ πατρός μου. God has no cursed ones. εἰς τὸ πῦρ, etc., the eternal fire is represented as prepared not for the condemned men, but for...
SERVE CHRIST BY SERVING OTHERS Matthew 25:31-46 We are called to watch the procedure of God's moral government. This is primarily a forecast of the judgment of _the nations,_ Matthew 25:32. It would...
"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...
"When the Son of man shall come in his glory, and all the holy angels with him, then shall he sit upon the throne of his glory: (32) And before him shall be gathered all nations: and he shall separate...
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...
44._Then shall they also answer him. _The same kind of striking delineation which Christ had formerly employed is now repeated, in order to inform the reprobate, that their vain excuses, by which they...
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...
THEN SHALL THEY ALSO ANSWER HIM,.... As well as the righteous, being likewise astonished at what he had said, but on a different account; SAYING, LORD, WHEN SAW WE THEE AN HUNGERED OR ATHIRST, OR A S...
Then shall they also answer him, saying, Lord, when saw we thee an hungred, or athirst, or a stranger, or naked, or sick, or in prison, and did not minister unto thee? Ver. 44. _Lord, when saw we the...
_Then shall they answer, Lord, when saw we thee a hungered_, &c. So their endeavour to justify themselves will remain with the wicked even to that day! Perhaps, however, it may not be intended here to...
THEN SHALL THEY ALSO ANSWER HIM, SAYING, LORD, WHEN SAW WE THEE AN HUNGERED, OR ATHIRST, OR A STRANGER, OR NAKED, OR SICK, OR IN PRISON, AND DID NOT MINISTER UNTO THEE?...
The sentence upon the unrighteous:...
"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...
31-46 This is a description of the last judgment. It is as an explanation of the former parables. There is a judgment to come, in which every man shall be sentenced to a state of everlasting happines...
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A Strain of the Judgment of the Lord All groans effusely, and attests[48] Archelaus Acts of the Disputation with the Heresiarch Manes But in the Gospel of our Saviour it is written that those who s...
Matthew 25:44 Then G5119 they G846 also G2532 answer G611 (G5700) Him G846 saying G3004 (G5723) Lord...
“Then will they also answer, saying, ‘Lord, when did we see you hungry, or athirst, or a stranger, or naked, or sick, or in prison, and did not minister to you?' ” Again they ask the question which r...
THE FINAL JUDGMENT (25:32-46). That this is the final judgment comes out in that its verdict determines the eternal destiny of men (Matthew 25:46). It should be noted that it is not said to take place...
We have here a picture of the final judgment, ‘the end of the world;' not a parable, though containing the figure of a shepherd dividing the sheep from the goats (Matthew 25:32-33). The pre-millenial...
Matthew 25:44. WHEN SAW WE THEE, etc. A self - righteous plea of ignorance, implying that they would have done such good works, had they seen Him. The answer of the Lord in Matthew 25:45, repeats the...
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...
WHEN, LORD, DID WE EVER SEE YOU? If they had seen him in all his glory, they would have given him everything they had!...
_Then shall the King say unto them on His right hand, Come, ye blessed._ I. Consider the reference made to the conduct of the righteous. II. Their station-“the right-hand.” III. The sentence. IV....
MATTHEW—NOTE ON MATTHEW 25:41 ETERNAL PUNISHMENT. Some interpreters think this judgment (THESE WILL GO AWAY) will occur prior to the start of Jesus’ earthly millennial kingdom. They think the “sheep”...
_CRITICAL NOTES_ Matthew 25:31. WHEN THE SON OF MAN SHALL COME, etc.—The paragraph, Matthew 25:31, is not a parable, as some, inclusive of Townsend and Olshausen, have supposed, but a prophecy. It is...
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 Samuel 15:13; 1 Samuel 15:20; 1 Samuel 15:21; Jeremiah 2:23;...