-
Verse 36. _I WAS SICK, AND YE VISITED ME_] Relieving the strangers,
and visiting the sick, were in high estimation among the Jews. One of
their sayings on this head is worthy of notice: "He who neglec...
-
I WAS AN HUNGERED - The union between Christ and his people is the
most tender and endearing of all connections. It is represented by the
closest unions of which we have knowledge, John 15:4; Ephesian...
-
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)...
-
NAKED. Scantily clothed. Figure of speech _Synecdoche_ (of the Whole),
App-6....
-
There is a climax in this enumeration. The first three are recognised
duties, the last three are voluntary acts of self-forgetting love.
Common humanity would move a man to relieve his bitterest foe w...
-
35, 36. There is a climax in this enumeration. The first three are
recognised duties, the last three are voluntary acts of
self-forgetting love. Common humanity would move a man to relieve his
bittere...
-
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...
-
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...
-
FOR I WAS AN HUNGERED, &C.— Or, _I was hungry:_ and so Matthew
25:42. In Matthew 25:36 instead of, _And ye visited me,_ Heylin and
Doddridge read, _And ye looked after me:_ επισκεψασθε με,
which signi...
-
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...
-
Naked, and ye clothed me: I was sick, and ye visited me: I was in
prison, and ye came unto me.
NAKED, AND YE CLOTHED ME: ... SICK, AND YE VISITED ME: ... PRISON,
AND YE CAME UNTO ME....
-
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...
-
YE VISITED ME. — The Greek word is somewhat stronger than the modern
meaning of the English, and includes “looking after,” “caring
for.” The verb is formed from the same root as _Episcopos,_ the
bisho...
-
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...
-
γυμνὸς, ἠσθένησα, ἐν φυλακῇ : deeper degrees
of misery demanding higher degrees of charity; naked = ill clad,
relief more costly than in case of hunger or thirsty sick, calling for
sympathy prompting...
-
οἱ εὐλογημένοι τοῦ πατρός μου, my Father's
blessed ones, the participle being in effect a substantive.
κληρονομήσατε, etc.: this clause Weiss regards as a proof
that the parable originally referred to...
-
_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...
-
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...
-
_ And you visited me. How easy are the things our Saviour requires at
our hands! He will not say at the day of judgment: "I was in prison,
and you delivered me; I was sick, and you healed me; but only...
-
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...
-
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...
-
NAKED, AND YE CLOTHED ME,.... For in such a condition sometimes are
the dear children of God, and members of Christ; see 1 Corinthians
4:11, when others, who, Dorcas like, have made coats and garments...
-
Naked, and ye clothed me: I was sick, and ye visited me: I was in
prison, and ye came unto me.
Ver. 36. _Naked, and ye clothed me_] Darius, before he came to the
kingdom, received a garment for a gif...
-
_I was a hungered, and ye gave me meat_, &c. All the works of outward
mercy here mentioned suppose faith and love, and must needs be
accompanied with works of spiritual mercy, such as instructing the...
-
NAKED, AND YE CLOTHED ME; I WAS SICK, AND YE VISITED ME; I WAS IN
PRISON, AND YE CAME UNTO ME....
-
The sentence upon the righteous:...
-
"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"....
-
Tertullian Scorpiace
; and when He wishes a brother to be visited in prison,[75]
Cyprian Epistle LIX
Our brotherhood, considering all these things according to your
letter, and sorrowfully examining...
-
Matthew 25:36 naked G1131 and G2532 clothed G4016 (G5627) Me G3165
sick G770 (G5656) and G2532 visited...
-
“For I was hungry, and you gave me to eat; I was thirsty, and you
gave me drink; I was a stranger, and you took me in; naked, and you
clothed me; I was sick, and you visited me; I was in prison, and y...
-
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...
-
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...
-
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 25:36. NAKED, or, poorly clothed.
SICK IN PRISON. Healing and release are not mentioned, these could be
rendered by a few only; but visitation, sympathy, care, which all can
give....
-
CLOTHED ME
(περιεβαλετε με). Second aorist middle indicative, cast
something around me.VISITED ME
(επεσκεψασθε με). Looked after, came to see. Our "visit"
is from Latin _viso, video_. Cf. our Eng...
-
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 25:34
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...
-
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...
-
I WAS HUNGRY AND YOU FED ME. The reason why those on the right receive
the eternal kingdom is seen. They had demonstrated their faith by
their actions (James 2:14-26). What they had done to fellow-men...
-
_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...
-
2 Timothy 1:16; Acts 20:35; Acts 28:8; Acts 28:9; Ezekiel 34:4;...
-
Visited [ε π ε σ κ ε ψ α σ θ ε]. Lit., Ye looked upon. 6
Our word visit is from the Latin viso, to look steadfastly at, and
thence to visit. We retain the original thought in the popular phrases
to se...