Excerpts of Theodotus
For no longer is there evil in it, since that has been made to cease; nor yet is there good, since it has not yet received good. But what is neither good nor evil is nothing. "For to the swept and empty house return,"[27]
Verse 44. _INTO MY HOUSE_] The soul of that person from whom he had been expelled by the power of Christ, and out of which he was to have been kept by continual prayer, faith, and watchfulness. _HE F...
WHEN THE UNCLEAN SPIRIT ... - The “general sentiment” which our Saviour here teaches is much more easily understood than the illustration which he uses. The Jews had asked a sign from heaven that shou...
9. THE REJECTION CONSUMMATED AND THE BROKEN RELATIONSHIP. CHAPTER 12 1. The Hungry Disciples and the Accusing Pharisees. (Matthew 12:1 .) 2. The Man with the Withered Hand Healed.(Matthew 12:10 .) 3...
JESUS-' ANSWER TO THE VERDICT OF THE JERUSALEM SCRIBES, AND THE INTERVENTION OF HIS FAMILY (Mark 3:20 *, Luke 11:14; Luke 11:29; Luke 12:10;...
The connexion of Matthew 12:43 is with Matthew 12:30, as is shown by Lk.; neutrality in the spiritual life cannot last. The point of the illustration is that the Jews had felt the influence of John an...
CRISIS (Matthew 12:1-50) In Matthew 12:1-50 we read the history of a series of crucial events in the life of Jesus. In every man's life there are decisive moments, times and events on which the whole...
"When an unclean spirit goes out of a man, it goes through waterless places, seeking for rest, and does not find it. Then it says, 'I will go back to my house, from which I came out,' and when it come...
FROM WHENCE. whence. GARNISHED. decorated....
_empty_ Properly, AT LEISURE. To have cast out a sin does not make a man safe from sin, there must be no leisure in the Christian life....
A Figure to illustrate the surpassing Wickedness of the day Luke 11:24-26, where the connection is different. St Luke, as usual, omits the direct application to Israel. The connection is not clearly...
ΣΧΟΛΆΖΟΝΤΑ. Properly ‘_at leisure_.’ There must be no leisure in the Christian life; to have cast out a sin does not make a man safe from sin. Christians are οἱ σωζόμενοι not οἱ σεσωσμένοι....
A FIGURE TO ILLUSTRATE THE SURPASSING WICKEDNESS OF THE DAY Luke 11:24-26, where the connection is different. St Luke, as usual, omits the direct application to Israel. This short parable explains th...
VER 43. "WHEN THE UNCLEAN SPIRIT IS GONE OUT OF A MAN, HE WALKETH THROUGH DRY PLACES, SEEKING REST, AND FINDETH NONE. 44. THEN HE SAITH, I WILL RETURN INTO MY HOUSE FROM WHENCE I CAME OUT; AND WHEN HE...
_THE CLAIMS OF THE SAVIOR MATTHEW 12:38-45:_ Jesus had every right to call on people to repent and to be righteous, (1) He is greater than the temple (Matthew 12:6), (2) He is greater that Jonah (Matt...
ΈΠΙΣΤΡΈΨΩ _fut. ind. act. от_ ΈΠΙΣΤΡΈΦΩ (G1994) оборачиваться, возвращаться. Совещат. FUT. указывает на намерение (VA, 424). ΈΞΉΛΘΟΝ _aor. ind. act. 1 pers. sing., см._ Matthew 12:43. ΈΛΘΌΝ _aor. act...
DISCOURSE: 1358 THE RELAPSED DΖMONIAC Matthew 12:43. When the unclean spirit is gone out of a man, he walketh through dry places, seeking rest, and findeth none. Then he saith, I will return into my h...
WHEN THE UNCLEAN SPIRIT, &C.— Our Lord here finishes his defence, alluding to the occasion of the dispute, Matthew 12:22 with a parable of a possessed person who, having had a devilor demon expelled o...
Section 29 JESUS GIVES THE SIGN OF JONAH (Possible Parallel: Luke 11:16; Luke 11:24; Luke 11:26; Luke 11:29-32) TEXT: 12:38-45 38.
When the unclean spirit is gone out of a man, he walketh through dry places, seeking rest, and findeth none. WHEN THE UNCLEAN SPIRIT IS GONE OUT OF A MAN ... On this important parable, in connectio...
42 “The ends of the earth,” an expression which does not include the sea, would describe any location on Eurasia or Africa not far from the further coast line. 43-45 Compare Luk_11:24-26 43 Actual i...
MY HOUSE] i.e. the man himself; here, the nation. EMPTY] Though the evil has been temporarily expelled, nothing good has been put in its place, so that the demon can return. If our Lord had been admit...
PLUCKING CORN ON THE SABBATH. BLASPHEMY AGAINST THE HOLY GHOST 1-8. Plucking the corn on the sabbath (Mark 2:23; Luke 6:1). This chapter begins the period of active conflict with the Pharisees. It is...
THE RETURN OF THE UNCLEAN SPIRIT (Luke 11:24). The connexion in St. Matthew is preferable. The expulsion of the evil spirit represents the submission of the nation to the baptism of John, which was a...
A SIGN DEMANDED. Astounding impudence after they had just ascribed His miracles to Beelzebub, and declared Him possessed with an unclean spirit. It was the practice of Jesus to work signs for those wh...
MATTHEW’S GOOD NEWS MATTHEW’S *GOSPEL _HILDA BRIGHT_ CHAPTER 12 QUESTIONS ABOUT HOW TO USE GOD’S REST DAY 12:1-14 Matthew gives two examples of the ‘*yoke’ of the *Jewish law: 1. The *disciples...
EMPTY, SWEPT, AND GARNISHED. — The words have a two-fold symbolism, as representing (1) the state of the possessed man, and (2) that of the nation of which he is made the type. The latter belongs to t...
Chapter 10 The Shadow of the Cross - Matthew 11:1; Matthew 12:1 I-DISCOURAGEMENTS. Matthew 11:1 HITHERTO almost everything has been hopeful and encouraging in our Evangelist's record of the Saviour'...
_A sign asked and refused, with relative discourse_ (Luke 11:16; Luke 11:29-36). Both Matt.'s and Luke's reports convey the impression that the demand for a sign, and the enunciation of the Satanic th...
_A comparison. Cf._ Luke 11:24-26. Formerly Jesus had likened the evil race of Pharisaic religionists to children playing in the market-place (Matthew 9:16-19). Now He uses expelled demons to depict t...
σχολάζοντα σ. καὶ κ. = untenanted and ready for a tenant, inviting by its clean, ornamented condition. The epithets simply describe in lively pictorial manner the risk of repossession. But naturally c...
OPPOSING OR DOING GOD'S WILL Matthew 12:38-50 It was an evil and adulterous age. It had no spiritual appreciation, and was intent on getting an outward and sensible sign. Nineveh itself would have co...
This chapter chronicles direct attacks on Christ. The first was petty and foolish. It is on the question of the Sabbath. The Master gives to His people the true conception of the sanctity of the Sabba...
AWFUL STATE OF THE BACKSLIDER Matthew 12:43-45. _“When the unclean spirit may go out from a man, he goeth through dry places seeking rest, and findeth none.”_ Here we see the man is converted; this un...
CHAPTER 24 THE SCRIBES AND PHARISEES SEEK A SIGN FROM HEAVEN Matthew 12:38-45; Luke 11:16-36. “Then certain ones of the scribes and Pharisees responded, saying, Master, we wish to see a sign from The...
"Then certain of the scribes and of the Pharisees answered, saying, Master, we would see a sign from thee. (39) But he answered and said unto them, An evil and adulterous generation seeketh after a si...
Chapter 8, which opens the portion that comes before us tonight, is a striking illustration as well as proof of the method which God has been pleased to employ in giving us the apostle Matthew's accou...
_THE DEVIL DETHRONED_ ‘When the unclean spirit is gone out of a man … the last state of that man is worse than the first.’ Matthew 12:43 When the unclean spirit is gone out, Christ tells what takes...
44._He findeth it empty _Christ is unquestionably describing those who, being destitute of the Spirit of God, are prepared for receiving the devil; for believers, in whom the Spirit of God efficacious...
At length the rejection of the nation, in consequence of their contempt of the Lord, is plainly shewn, as well as the cessation of all His relations with them as such, in order to bring out on God's p...
THEN HE SAID, I WILL RETURN INTO MY HOUSE,.... Into the land of Judea, particularly into the Scribes and Pharisees, outward professors of religion; who, notwithstanding their outward reformation, and...
Then he saith, I will return into my house from whence I came out; and when he is come, he findeth _it_ empty, swept, and garnished. Ver. 44. _He findeth it empty_] That is, idle and secure, swept of...
_When the unclean spirit_, &c. In these verses, with a view to show how dreadful the state of the Jewish people would be, if they continued to reject him and his gospel, our Lord introduces a parable,...
I WILL RETURN INTO MY HOUSE; into the man in whom he had dwelt. EMPTY; not occupied by any other who would keep him out....
A comparison:...
Then he saith, I will return into my house from whence I came out; and when he is come, he findeth it empty, swept, and garnished....
We have seen that Matthew groups events with a dispensational end in view, and chapter 12 shows a building up on Israel's part to a state of utter rejection of their Messiah. The expression "at that t...
38-45 Though Christ is always ready to hear and answer holy desires and prayers, yet those who ask amiss, ask and have not. Signs were granted to those who desired them to confirm their faith, as Abr...
SEE POOLE ON "MATTHEW 12:45"....
Matthew 12:44 Then G5119 says G3004 (G5719) return G1994 (G5692) to G1519 my G3450 house G3624 which...
‘Then he says, “I will return into my house from where I came out”, and when he is come, he finds it empty, swept, and furnished.' So the spirit decides that it will try to repossess its house, and wh...
THE SAD PLIGHT OF THIS GENERATION (12:43-45). This short illustration takes up the themes that have previously been presented and is firmly in context. Compare (Matthew 12:1) the being healed from an...
INTRODUCTORY NOTE. These occurrences seem to have followed each other in immediate succession. Luke places the last one (Matthew 12:46-50) after the parable of the sower, but Mark gives the same order...
Matthew 12:44. MY HOUSE, _i.e._ , the demoniac. HE FINDETH IT. Not in a state of moral purity, but EMPTY of a good tenant; SWEPT of all that would be forbidding to an evil spirit; AND GARNISHED, set...
INTO MY HOUSE (εις τον οικον μου). So the demon describes the man in whom he had dwelt. "The demon is ironically represented as implying that he left his victim voluntarily, as a man leaves his hou...
Matthew 12:38. _Then certain of the scribes and of the Pharisees answered, saying, Master, we would see a sign from thee. But he answered and said unto them, An evil and adulterous generation seeketh...
CONTENTS: Jesus announces Himself Lord of Sabbath, Controversy with Pharisees. Healing of the withered hand. A demoniac healed. The unpardonable sin. Death and resurrection foretold. Deficiency of sel...
Matthew 12:2. _Thy disciples do that which is not lawful to do upon the sabbath- day._ The pharisees did not find fault with eating a few ears of barley in their hunger, while others enjoyed their fea...
43-45. WHEN AN EVIL SPIRIT. This is a parable, and its meaning is based on the last sentence: _"This is the way it will happen to the evil people of this day."_ This is the climax of the passage which...
JESUS TEACHES ABOUT UNCLEAN SPIRITS MATTHEW 12:43-45; LUKE 11:24-26; MATTHEW 12:43 When the unclean spirit is gone out of a man, he walketh through dry places, seeking rest, and findeth none....
1-50 CHAPTER XII. _At that time Jesus went through the corn fields_ (Through the crops of corn becoming white, or ripe), &c. Luke adds that this Sabbath was the first from the second (_Vulg_.); which...
_CRITICAL NOTES_ Matthew 12:38. A SIGN.—See Luke 11:16. They wanted something of an immediate and decisive nature, to show, not that His miracles were real—that they seemed willing to concede—but that...
EXPOSITION MATTHEW 12:1 The opposition that our Lord met with (1) from his enemies (Matthew 12:1); (2) from his relations (Matthew 12:46-4
Shall we turn to the twelfth chapter of the gospel of Matthew? Jesus was not one to follow traditions. He's already pointed out in the Sermon on the Mount, that through their interpretation of the law...
1 Corinthians 11:19; 1 John 2:19; 1 John 4:4; 1 Timothy 6:10; 1
Whence he came out — He speaks as if he had come out of his own accord: See his pride! He findeth it empty — of God, of Christ, of his Spirit: Swept — from love, lowliness, meekness, and all the fruit...