_CHRIST DISPUTETH WITH THE PHARISEES TOUCHING DIVORCEMENT: BLESSETH THE CHILDREN THAT ARE BROUGHT UNTO HIM: RESOLVETH A RICH MAN HOW HE MAY INHERIT LIFE EVERLASTING: TELLETH HIS DISCIPLES OF THE DANGER OF RICHES: PROMISETH REWARDS TO THEM THAT FORSAKE ANY THING FOR THE GOSPEL: FORETELLETH HIS DEATH... [ Continue Reading ]
BY THE FARTHER SIDE OF JORDAN— _Through the country upon the Jordan._ Campbell.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND IF A WOMAN SHALL PUT AWAY HER HUSBAND,— Though it is certain that the Jewish law did not put it in a woman's power to divorce her husband; yet it is plain from Josephus, that it was done, not only by several ladies of distinguished rank, but even that his own wife did it, having probably learned... [ Continue Reading ]
WHOSOEVER SHALL NOT, &C.— "As to adult persons, I assuredly tell you, who, by your behaviour on this occasion, plainly need the admonition, whoever he be, that does not embrace the Gospel of the kingdom with humility and meekness, free from hypocrisy, wrath and malice, pride and ambition, in resembl... [ Continue Reading ]
THERE CAME ONE RUNNING,— St. Luke 18:18 calls this person αρχων τις, _a certain ruler,_ by which may be meant either a ruler of the synagogue, or a member of the sanhedrim. This person expected to have found Jesus in the city of Ephraim; but when he understood he had justleft that place to go to Jer... [ Continue Reading ]
ALL THESE HAVE I OBSERVED, &C.— The phrase εκ νεοτητος, may indeed be very exactly rendered _from my youth;_ but as he was yet but a young man, Matthew 19:20 it is probably here put for _infancy_ or _childhood._ It is plain that he did not understand the spiritual meaning and intent of the law, acco... [ Continue Reading ]
MARK 10:25. _A CAMEL_— Or, _A cable._ See on Matthew 19:24.... [ Continue Reading ]
WITH MEN IT IS IMPOSSIBLE, BUT NOT WITH GOD, &C.— This is indeed utterly impossible to every man by any power of his own; but is not so to the mercy and power of God, with whom nothing is too hard to do: he can make an effectual change upon the heart by regenerating grace, and enable it freely to re... [ Continue Reading ]
THERE IS NO MAN THAT HATH LEFT, &C.— Our Lord is not here speaking of such as have actually separated themselves from the persons, and parted with the possessions here mentioned; for if that had been his meaning, he would not have said, that wives and children were to be forsaken, having himself, on... [ Continue Reading ]
THEY WERE IN THE WAY GOING UP, &C.— The rulers at Jerusalem had issued out a proclamation against our Lord, immediately after the resurrection of Lazarus, and probably promised a reward to any that would apprehend him, John 11:57. This seems to have been the reason why the disciples were _amazed._ T... [ Continue Reading ]
SHALL CONDEMN—SHALL DELIVER, &C.— _Will condemn,_ &c.... [ Continue Reading ]
BLIND BARTIMEUS, THE SON OF TIMEUS,— _Bartimeus,_ which signifies in the Syriac language, _the son of Timeus._... [ Continue Reading ]
HE, CASTING AWAY HIS GARMENT,— That is, his _upper_ garment, that it might not hinderhim a moment in his approach to Christ. The blind man herein furnishes us with an instructive lesson, that we should rise no less eagerly, no less gladly cast away our _cloak,_ lay _aside every weight, and the sin w... [ Continue Reading ]
THAT I MIGHT RECEIVE MY SIGHT.— _That I may have my sight._ Heylin. _That I may recover my sight._ Doddridge: who observes that this is the exact meaning of αναβλεψω; which seems to import, that he was not born blind, but lost his sight by some disease or accident, which made him so much the more se... [ Continue Reading ]
HATH MADE THEE WHOLE.— Σεσωκεσε, _hath saved thee,_ which seems evidently to refer to something more than a mere bodily cure. _Inferences_ drawn from the application of the young ruler to Christ—When our Saviour dwelt upon earth, he found a young man in the coasts of Judea, who preferred the riches... [ Continue Reading ]