Geneva Study Bible Commentary
Matthew 25:31
(3) 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:
(3) A graphic setting forth of the everlasting judgment which is to come.
(3) 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:
(3) A graphic setting forth of the everlasting judgment which is to come.
Verse 31. _WHEN THE SON OF MAN SHALL COME_] This must be understood of Christ's coming at the _last day_, to judge mankind: though all the preceding part of the chapter may be applied also to the dest...
WHEN THE SON OF MAN ... - This is in answer to the question which the disciples proposed to Jesus respecting the end of the world, Matthew 24:3. That this refers to the last judgment, and not, as some...
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...
WHEN THE SON OF MAN. See the Structure (p. 1366). SHALL COME. shall have come. THE THRONE. Luke 1:32. Compare Psalms 47:8; Jeremiah 3:17;...
The Day of Judgment 32. _all nations_ Either (1) all the nations of the world, including the Jews; or (2) all the Gentiles. The almost invariable use of τὰ ἔθνη to signify the Gentiles; the unconsciou...
THE DAY OF JUDGMENT...
ἍΓΙΟΙ, omitted before ἂγγελοι (אBDL and others). A heads the evidence for the retention of ἅγιοι....
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...
ΈΛΘΗ _aor. conj. act. от_ ΈΡΧΟΜΑΙ (G2064). _Conj._ в неопр. врем. _прид._ с ΌΤΑΝ (G3752). ΚΑΘΊΣΕΙ _fut. ind. act. от_ ΚΑΘΊΖΩ (G2523) сидеть, занимать место....
WHEN THE SON OF MAN SHALL COME, &C.— Our Saviour begins here his _third_ parable, which is agreeable to the language of the Old Testament, in which good men are compared to _sheep,_ on account of thei...
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...
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: WHEN THE SON OF MAN SHALL COME IN HIS GLORY - His personal glory, AN...
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...
25:31 comes (a-7) Or 'shall have come.'...
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...
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...
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 THE SON OF MAN SHALL COME. — We commonly speak of the concluding portion of this chapter as the parable of the Sheep and the Goats, but it is obvious from its very beginning that it passes beyond...
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...
_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...
ὅταν δὲ, the description following recalls Matthew 24:30, to which the ὅταν seems to refer....
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...
Matthew 25:31._Now when the Son of man shall come in his glory. _Christ follows out the same doctrine, and what he formerly described under parables, he now explains clearly and without figures. The s...
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...
WHEN THE SON OF MAN SHALL COME IN HIS GLORY,.... What is before signified in the two preceding parables, is here clearly and distinctly represented without a parable: and it should be observed, that a...
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: Ver. 31. _And all the holy angels with him_] He shall not leave one behi...
_When_, &c. The same great truth, that there is no such thing as negative goodness, which was shown, 1st, in the parable of the virgins; 2d, in the still plainer parable of the servants who had receiv...
COME IN HIS GLORY; at the day of judgment....
THE LAST JUDGMENT....
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;...
"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 25:33"....
Five Books in Reply to Marcion On the left hand[234] Dubious Hippolytus Fragments Then shall the King say unto them on His right hand, Come, ye blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared fo...
Matthew 25:31 When G1161 G3752 Son G5207 Man G444 comes G2064 (G5632) in G1722 His G846 glory...
“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,” Significantly here the Son of Man is paralleled with the King (Matthew 25:...
Matthew 25:31. NOW WHEN THE SON OF MAN SHALL COME. An interval is hinted at, but not asserted. IN HIS GLORY. Comp. chap. Matthew 24:30. The ‘great glory' culminates in ‘His glory' (comp. John 17:5)....
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...
SON OF MAN (_ See Scofield) - (Matthew 8:20). _ ANGELS (_ See Scofield) - (Hebrews 1:4). _...
Matthew 25:31 I. When we turn to the Book of God in order to learn what particulars are revealed to us respecting the awful coming of the Lord, the first thing which strikes us is its suddenness. When...
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 THE SON OF MAN. (Compare 1 Thessalonians 4:14-18; Revelation 20:11-15.) The Second Coming at the end of the world is meant. AS KING. He is King now (1 Corinthians 15:25
_When the Son of Man shall come in His glory._ -The righteous at the judgment. I. The kingly character of the lord Jesus. II. The character of the people of God. 1. Blessed of God. 2. Represented...
MATTHEW—NOTE ON MATTHEW 25:31 SON OF MAN. See note on 8:20. ANGELS WITH HIM. See Matthew 13:41;
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 Thessalonians 4:16; 2 Thessalonians 1:7; 2 Thessalonians 1:8; Acts 1:11;...
When the Son of man shall come in his glory, and all the holy angels with him — With what majesty and grandeur does our Lord here speak of himself Giving us one of the noblest instances of the true su...
From hence to the end of the chapter, we have. draught and scheme of the general judgment. Where observe, the person judging, THE SON OF MAN; the persons judged, GOOD AND BAD; the one called SHEEP, f...