Matthew 25:13

Watch therefore, for ye know neither the day nor the hour wherein the Son of man cometh. WATCH THEREFORE; FOR YE KNOW NEITHER THE DAY NOR THE HOUR [WHEREIN THE SON OF MAN COMETH.] This, the moral or practical lesson of the whole parable, needs no comment. [The evidence against the genuineness, in this verse, of the words enclosed in brackets is decisive. They seem to have been first copied, exactly as they stand in , into what are called Lectionaries, or portions of Scripture transcribed to be read as Church Lessons-in all of which these words are found-in order to avoid the apparent abruptness with which the verse otherwise closes, and then to have found their way into a tolerable number of manuscripts and versions. But the abruptness is more apparent than real; and the event itself being supposed, the uncertainty ascribed simply to "the day and 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 Christians we profess to attend upon Christ, to honour him, also to be waiting for his coming. Sincere Christians are the wise virgins, and hypocrites the foolish ones. Those are the truly wise or foolish that are so in the affairs of their souls. Many have a lamp of profession in their hands, but have not, in their hearts, sound knowledge and settled resolution, which are needed to carry them through the services and trials of the present state. Their hearts are not stored with holy dispositions, by the new-creating Spirit of God. Our light must shine before men in good works; but this is not likely to be long done, unless there is a fixed, active principle in the heart, of faith in Christ, and lov...

Verse Matthew 25:13. _WATCH THEREFORE_] If to _watch_ be to employ ourselves _chiefly_ about the business of our salvation, alas! how few of those who are called _Christians_ are there who do _watch_! How many who _slumber_! How many who are asleep! How many seized with a _lethargy_! How many _quite dead_! _WHEREIN THE SON OF MAN COMETH._] These words are omitted by many excellent MSS., most of the versions, and several of the fathers. _Griesbach_ has left them out of the text: _Grotius, Hammond, Mill_, and _Bengel_, approve of the omission....

WATCH, THEREFORE ... - This is the scope or design of the whole parable. This is the great truth that Christ wished to inculcate, and all parts of the parable are to be interpreted in reference to this admonition. Like the virgins, many are professedly going to meet the Bridegroom - the Lord Jesus Christ. Like the coming of the bridegroom, his advent will be sudden. It will be to many at an unexpected time. Many, even professing Christians, will be engaged in the business of the world; thoughtless about eternity; not expecting his approach, and not prepared. They will only profess to know him, but in works they will deny him. So death will come. All approaches of the Son of God to judge men are sudden, and to many unexpected. So many, when they shall see him coming, at death or the judgment, will begin, like the foolish virgins, to be active, and to prepare to die; but it will be too lat...

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 grace unto the end, in order to be able to welcome the advent of Christ. The duty of watchfulness and preparation for the great day is, of course, implied and set forth (Matthew 25:13); but the point is that the oil of God's grace alone enables the soul to meet the bridegroom joyfully, without dismay. The usual marriage customs of the Jews are well known. On the appointed day, the bridegroom, accompanied by his friends, proceeded to the bride's house, and thence escorted her, with her attendant maidens and friends, to his own or his parents' home. In the parable,

WATCH THEREFORE,.... In ordinances, in prayer, public and private, in hearing the word, at the Lord's supper, and in every religious exercise; over the heart, the thoughts and affections of it; over words, actions, life, and conversation; and against all sin and unbelief, Satan's temptations, the world, and its charms and snares, false teachers, and their doctrines, and for the bridegroom's coming. This is the use and application of the whole parable, and shows the general design of it; the reason to enforce watchfulness follows: FOR YE KNOW NEITHER THE DAY NOR THE HOUR; of death, or of judgment, or of the coming of the son of man, of one or the other; for it is added, WHEREIN THE SON OF MAN COMETH: that he will come is certain, and that quickly; the time is fixed, but when it will be is unknown; and therefore it becomes us to be our watch and guard. This last clause is not in the Vulg...

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 division this makes in the visible Church of God! Let as hope that we are not to gather from this that as many as half the professors of Christianity at any time are like these foolish virgins; yet our Lord would not have mentioned so high a proportion if there were not a very large admixture of foolish with the wise: «Five of them were wise, and five were foolish.» Matthew 25:3. _They that were foolish took their lamps, and took no oil with them:_ They thought that, if they had the external, it would be quite enough. The secret store of oil, they judged to be unnecessar

SON OF MAN Also (Matthew 24:31). (_ See Scofield) - (Matthew 8:20). _...

MATTHEW 25:13 w[ran {A} The clause evn h|- o` ui`o.j tou/ avnqrw,pou e;rcetai (C3 G P3 F ¦13 28 157 543 700 1241 syrpalmg) is a pendantic addition made by well-meaning copyists who recollected the similar clause in Matthew 24:44. In reality, the warning is more energetic without it, and is amply perspicuous to one who has read what precedes, from Matthew 24:36 onward. The Committee preferred the shorter text...

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 parable of the ten virgins. It is one which is interpreted by students of the prophetic Word in different ways; we are therefore obliged to give it our closest attention. “Then shall the kingdom of the heavens be likened to ten virgins that, having taken their lamps, went forth to meet the bridegroom. And five of them were prudent and five foolish. They that were foolish took their lamps and did not take oil with them; but the prudent took oil in their vessels with their lamps. Now the br