κύριε : not necessarily spoken by disciples supposed to know or believe in Jesus (Weiss). The title fits the judicial dignity of the person addressed by whomsoever used. In disclaiming the praise accorded, those who call the Judge κύριος virtually deny personal acquaintance with Him.
Verse 37. _LORD, WHEN SAW WE THEE AN HUNGERED_, c.] This barbarous expression, _an hungered_, should be banished out of the text, wheresoever it occurs, and the simple word _hungry_ substituted for i...
THEN SHALL THE RIGHTEOUS ... - This answer is indicative of humility - a deep sense of their being unworthy such commendation. They will feel that their poor acts of kindness have come so far short of...
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...
THE FATE OF THE UNPREPARED (Matthew 25:1-13)...
"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...
THEN SHALL THE RIGHTEOUS ANSWER, &C. Figure of speech _Dialogismos._...
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...
ΆΠΟΚΡΙΘΉΣΟΝΤΑΙ _fut. ind. pass. (dep.) от_ ΑΠΟΚΡΊΝΟΜΑΙ (G611) отвечать, ΕΪΔΟΜΕΝ _aor. ind. act. от_ ΌΡΆΩ (G3708) видеть, ΠΕΙΝΏΝΤΑ _praes. part. act., см._ Matthew 25:35. ΈΘΡΈΨΑΜΕΝ _aor. ind. act. от...
DISCOURSE: 1399 THE IMPORTANCE OF CHARITABLE EXERTIONS Matthew 25:35. I was an hungered, and ye gave me meat: I was thirsty, and ye gave me drink: I was a stranger, and ye took me in: naked, and ye cl...
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 the righteous answer him, saying, Lord, when saw we thee an hungred, and fed thee? or thirsty, and gave thee drink? THEN SHALL THE RIGHTEOUS ANSWER HIM, SAYING, LORD, WHEN SAW WE THEE A...
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...
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 AN HUNGRED? — It is clear that this question of surprise could not be asked by any who, as believers in Christ, have come under this teaching. They know, even now, the full significan...
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...
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...
37._Then wilt the righteous answer him. _Christ represents the righteous as doubting—what they know well—his willingness to form a just estimate of what is done to men. (174) But as this was not so de...
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 THE RIGHTEOUS ANSWER HIM,.... From whence it appears, that only such shall be at the right hand of Christ, who are righteous persons, who have the righteousness of Christ imputed to them; a...
Then shall the righteous answer him, saying, Lord, when saw we thee an hungred, and fed _thee_ ? or thirsty, and gave _thee_ drink? Ver. 37. _Then shall the righteous, &c._] Not that there shall be t...
_Then shall the righteous answer_, &c. The righteous, with great surprise, ask, with reverence and humility, when all this happened, since they never had seen him in want of their assistance, nor coul...
WHEN SAW WE THEE; humility astonished at high honor put on poor services....
The sentence upon the righteous:...
THEN SHALL THE RIGHTEOUS ANSWER HIM, SAYING, LORD, WHEN SAW WE THEE AN HUNGERED, AND FED THEE? OR THIRSTY, AND GAVE THEE DRINK?...
"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...
SEE POOLE ON "MATTHEW 25:40"....
Dubious Hippolytus Fragments when saw we Thee sick or in prison, and came unto Thee?[126]...
Matthew 25:37 Then G5119 righteous G1342 answer G611 (G5700) Him G846 saying G3004 (G5723) Lord G2962 when...
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...
“Then will the righteous answer him, saying, ‘Lord, when did we see you hungry, and fed you, or thirsty, and gave you drink? And when did we see you a stranger, and took you in, or naked, and clothed...
Matthew 25:37-38. LORD, WHEN SAW WE THEE, etc. The language of humility rather than of ignorance. Care for Christ's brethren, as such, would not be shown by those ignorant of Him. There is nothing in...
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...
The order is chronological (comp. Mark 7:24 to Mark 8:10; especially the miracle peculiar to that Gospel). This visit of our Lord to Gentile regions followed an attack from the Pharisees. (Comp, the c...
RIGHTEOUS (_ See Scofield) - (Romans 10:10). _...
Matthew 25:34 The Surprise of the Righteous. I. The special peculiarity of the persons of whom our Lord here speaks, is that they did not know, that they had no suspicion, that in showing kindness to...
Matthew 25:34 The Judgment of the Nations. Perhaps we are justified in saying that we have, in connection with these words, the most vivid description of the last judgment to be found in the Holy Bib...
Matthew 25:37 The Humility of the Saints. The kingdom of heaven this is what Christ came to introduce to introduce into active co-operation with us poor men. He brought down out of that far place thi...
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? Christ has been gone from earth. They did not see him in person....
_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....
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 25:31. 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 Chronicles 29:14; 1 Corinthians 15:10; 1 Peter 5:5; 1 Peter 5:6;...
Then shall the righteous answer — It cannot be, that either the righteous or the wicked should answer in these very words. What we learn herefrom is, that neither of them have the same estimation of t...
Here we have. dialogue or interchangeable discourse betwixt Christ and his faithful servants at the great day. Where observe, Their question and his reply. Their question, LORD, WHEN DID WE FEED THEE...