Hawker's Poor man's commentary
Matthew 25:1
CONTENTS
In this Chapter we have the Parable of the Ten Virgins, and of the Talents, together with an account of the proceedings of the last day.
CONTENTS
In this Chapter we have the Parable of the Ten Virgins, and of the Talents, together with an account of the proceedings of the last day.
MATTHEW 25:1 tou/ numfi,ou {B} It can be argued that the words kai. th/j nu,mfhj (“and the bride”), which are supported by a rather strong combination of witnesses, were omitted because they were fel...
CHAPTER XXV. _The parable of the ten virgins, five of whom were wise, and_ _five foolish_, 1-12. _The necessity of being constantly prepared to appear before_ _God_, 13. _The parable of the talen...
THEN SHALL THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN - See the notes at Matthew 3:2. The phrase here refers to his coming in the day of judgment. SHALL BE LIKENED - Or shall resemble. The meaning is, “When the Son of man...
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)...
THEN. At that point in. then future time. The Structure (p. 1366) shows that this parable formed the closing part of the Lord's teaching on the Mount of Olives (see Matthew 24:1; Matthew 24:3); and wa...
Matthew 25:1-13. The Parable of the Ten Virgins In St Matthew only. 1. _Then_ In the Last Day the time just spoken of. _the kingdom of heaven be likened unto ten virgins_ The condition of the Churc...
ὙΠΆΝΤΗΣΙΝ, (אBC) for ἀπάντησιν, see. 6. 1. ΤΌΤΕ. In the Last Day—the time just spoken of. ὉΜΟΙΩΘΉΣΕΤΑΙ ‘shall be like,’ not, ‘shall be compared (by me).’ The condition of the Church at the End of th...
THE PARABLE OF THE TEN VIRGINS In St Matthew only....
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...
ΌΜΟΙΩΘΉΣΕΤΑΙ _fut. ind. pass. от_ ΌΜΟΙΌΩ (G3666) уподоблять, сравнивать; с _dat._ Царство не подобно девам, но их история показывает какой-л. из его аспектов. (McNiele). _Fut._ намекает на последний с...
THEN SHALL THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN BE LIKENED, &C.— The particle _then_ evidently points out the connection of the present parable with the latter part of the preceding chapter. Our Lord having mentione...
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...
Then shall the kingdom of heaven be likened unto ten virgins, which took their lamps, and went forth to meet the bridegroom. This and the following parable are in Matthew alone. THEN SHALL THE KIN...
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...
25:1 that (b-14) 'Who were such as.' torches, (c-18) Torches that were fed with oil....
THEN] i.e. in the period immediately before the Second Advent. THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN] i.e. the Church on earth. UNTO TEN VIRGINS] The ten virgins are not simply Christians, but good Christians; not al...
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...
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...
XXV. (1) THEN SHALL THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN ... — The three parables of this chapter appear here as in closest sequence to the great discourse of Matthew 24, and are as its natural conclusion. On the ot...
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...
τότε, then, connecting what follows in the evangelist's mind with the time referred to in the previous parable, _i.e._, with the _Parusia_. δέκα παρθένοις : _ten_ virgins, not as the usual number as t...
_Parable of the Ten Virgins_, in Mt. only....
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...
Then (1) shall the kingdom of heaven be likened unto ten virgins, which took their lamps, and (a) went forth to meet the bridegroom. (1) We must desire strength from God's hand which may serve us as...
Ten virgins. By these are signified all mankind. By the bridegroom, Christ; by the bride, the Church; by oil, grace and charity. (Witham) --- The kingdom of heaven is not unfrequently compared to the...
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...
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...
_TO MEET THE BRIDEGROOM_ ‘Then shall the kingdom of heaven be likened unto ten virgins, which took their lamps, and went forth to meet the bridegroom.’ Matthew 25:1 Amongst our Blessed Lord’s words...
Matthew 25:1._Then shall the kingdom of heaven. _By this term is meant the condition of the future Church, which was to be collected by the authority and direction of Christ. He employs this remarkabl...
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 KINGDOM OF HEAVEN,.... The Gospel church state; Matthew 13:24 either as it would be a little before the coming of the son of man to take vengeance on the Jews; or as it will be a little...
Then shall the kingdom of heaven be likened unto ten virgins, which took their lamps, and went forth to meet the bridegroom. Ver. 1. _Then shall the kingdom of heaven_] Our Saviour here continueth hi...
_Then shall the kingdom of heaven_, &c. Our Lord, having fully informed his disciples of the circumstances and general season of his coming to destroy the Jewish place and nation, that lively, earnest...
THEN; at the time when the Son of man shall come, as foretold in the preceding chapter. The object of this parable is to show that as we do not know when Christ will come, we should so live as to be a...
THE PARABLE OF THE TEN VIRGINS. The delay of the bridegroom:...
THEN SHALL THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN BE LIKENED UNTO TEN VIRGINS, WHICH TOOK THEIR LAMPS, AND WENT FORTH TO MEET 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...
MATTHEW CHAPER 25 MATTHEW 25:1 The parable of the ten virgins, MATTHEW 25:14 and of the talents, which a king distributed among his servants, to be improved by them. MATTHEW 25:31 A description of the...
Matthew 25:1 Then G5119 kingdom G932 heaven G3772 likened G3666 (G5701) ten G1176 virgins G3933 who G3748 took...
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...
‘Then will the kingly rule of heaven be likened to ten virgins, who took their lamps, and went forth to meet the bridegroom.' ‘Then the kingly rule of heaven will be likened (future passive).' The Kin...
Matthew 25:1. THEN. At the period spoken of in the last chapter. The judgment upon those in office, having a more direct application to the Apostles, is mentioned before the judgment upon the people....
THE PARABLE OF THE TEN VIRGINS. Closely joined to the preceding one. Its leading idea is the readiness of the Church for the coming of the Lord. See the closing exhortation (Matthew 25:13). The last p...
TEN VIRGINS (δεκα παρθενοις). No special point in the number ten. The scene is apparently centered round the house of the bride to which the bridegroom is coming for the wedding festivities. But Pl...
SHALL This part of the Olivet discourse goes beyond the "sign" questions of the disciples (Matthew 24:3) and presents our Lord's return in three aspects: (1) As testing profession, (Matthew 25:1)....
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 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 The kingdom of Heaven has a strange fulness of meaning in the Scriptures, and must be understood to signify something quite different from the company of those who may call themselves sai...
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...
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...
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...
THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN WILL BE LIKE. The third question the disciples asked in Matthew 24:3 was about the end of the world. Chapter 25 is an answer to this. The central idea of this chapter is the wise...
_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...
MATTHEW—NOTE ON MATTHEW 25:1 THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN WILL BE LIKE. See notes on 3:2; 13:24. TEN VIRGINS. Bridesmaids. brideg
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 11:2; 2 Corinthians 11:2; 2 Peter 1:13; 2 Peter 3:12;...
Lamps [λ α μ π α δ α ς]. Lit., torches. Probably a short, wooden stem held in the hand, with a dish at the top, in which was a piece of cloth dipped in oil or pitch....
Then shall the kingdom of heaven — That is, the candidates for it, be like ten virgins — The bridemaids on the wedding night were wont to go to the house where the bride was, with burning lamps or tor...
By the KINGDOM OF HEAVEN here, is meant the state of the visible church on earth; it cannot be understood of the kingdom of glory, for there are no foolish virgins in that kingdom; nor yet of the invi...