Philip Schaff's Popular Commentary (4 vols)
Matthew 25:2
Matthew 25:2. And five of them were foolish, etc. This equal division may have a meaning. The correct order is transposed in the common version.
Matthew 25:2. And five of them were foolish, etc. This equal division may have a meaning. The correct order is transposed in the common version.
Verse Matthew 25:2. _FIVE OF THEM WERE WISE_] Or, _provident_, φρονιμοι - they took care to make a proper provision beforehand, and left nothing to be done in the last moment. _FIVE_ WERE _FOOLISH_]...
AND FIVE OF THEM WERE WISE - . The words “wise and foolish,” here, refer only to their conduct; in regard to the oil. The one part was “wise” in taking oil, the other “foolish” in neglecting it. The c...
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._
"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...
THE FATE OF THE UNPREPARED (Matthew 25:1-13)...
WISE. prudent....
_wise_ The word is used of prudence or practical intelligence, a characteristic of the steward, ch. Matthew 24:45, and Luke 16:8....
THE PARABLE OF THE TEN VIRGINS In St Matthew only....
The order μωραὶ … φρόνιμοι on decisive evidence. The striking and unexpected fact was that there were _foolish_ virgins in the group. 2. ΦΡΌΝΙΜΟΙ. Used of prudence or practical intelligence, a charac...
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...
ΉΣΑΝ _impf. ind. act. от_ ΕΙΜΊ (G1510). ΜΩΡΌΣ (G3474) глупый, ΦΡΌΝΙΜΟΣ (G5429) мудрый, чуткий, вдумчивый. Они были мудры, потому что хорошо подготовились (Carson, 513)....
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 five of them were wise, and five were foolish. AND FIVE OF THEM WERE WISE, AND FIVE WERE FOOLISH. They are not distinguished into good and bad, as Trench observes, but into "wise" and "foolish...
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 FIVE OF THEM WERE WISE AND FIVE _were_ FOOLISH] The foolish virgins are not identical with the wicked, or the hypocrites. There is nothing insincere about them, they are only foolish and shallow....
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...
FIVE OF THEM WERE WISE. — The word is the same as in Matthew 24:45, where see Note....
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...
_Parable of the Ten Virgins_, in Mt. only....
πέντε μωραὶ, πέντε φρόνιμοι : equal numbers of both, not intended to represent the proportion in the spiritual sphere; foolish, wise, not bad and good, but imprudent and prudent, thoughtless and thoug...
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...
2._Five were wise. _Towards the close of the former chapter, our Lord specially required _steward _to be _wise, _(Matthew 24:45) for it is reasonable, that the heavier the charge which any man sustain...
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 FIVE OF THEM WERE WISE,.... The order of these words is inverted in some versions, as in the Vulgate Latin, Arabic, and Ethiopic, and in Munster's Hebrew Gospel, which read, "and five of them were...
And five of them were wise, and five _were_ foolish. Ver. 2. _Five were foolish_] That is, some were wise, and some others foolish, and these last usually the most imprudent, improvident, after witte...
_And five of them were wise_ Prudent and provident; _and five foolish_ Inconsiderate and careless. _These latter took their lamps_ Took up a profession of the true religion; _but took no oil with them...
AND FIVE OF THEM WERE WISE, AND FIVE WERE FOOLISH....
THE PARABLE OF THE TEN VIRGINS. The delay of the bridegroom:...
"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"....
Irenaeus Against Heresies Book II blessing the five loaves, fed with them five thousand men. Five virgins[188] The First Epistle of Clement Concerning Virginity For, merely because a person is call...
Matthew 25:2 Now G1161 five G4002 of G1537 them G846 were G2258 (G5713) wise G5429 and G2532 five...
‘And five of them were foolish, and five were wise. For the foolish, when they took their torches, took no oil with them, but the wise took oil in their vessels with their torches.' The division betwe...
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...
Matthew 25:1 I. The main difficulty of interpretation in this parable is to understand what is meant by the wise and foolish virgins respectively; and also what is meant by the "taking oil in their ve...
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 25:1. _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...
FOOLISH - WISE. Notice the difference in attitude. Compare Matthew 7:21-27....
_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...
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 Corinthians 10:1; 1 John 2:19; Jeremiah 24:2; Jude 1:5; Matthew 22