Matthew 25:46

And these shall go away into everlasting punishment: but the righteous into life eternal. AND THESE SHALL GO AWAY - these "cursed" ones. Sentence, it should seem, was first pronounced-in the hearing of the wicked-upon the righteous, who thereupon sit as assessors in the judgment upon the wicked (1 Corinthians 6:2); but sentence is first executed, it should seem, upon the wicked, in the sight of the righteous-whose glory will thus not be beheld by the wicked, while their descent into "their own place" will be witnessed by the righteous, as Bengel notes. INTO EVERLASTING PUNISHMENT, [ kolasin (G2851) aioonion (G166)] - or, as in...

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 happiness, or misery. Christ shall come, not only in the glory of his Father, but in his own glory, as Mediator. The wicked and godly here dwell together, in the same cities, churches, families, and are not always to be known the one from the other; such are the weaknesses of saints, such the hypocrisies of sinners; and death takes both: but in that day they will be parted for ever. Jesus Christ is the great Shepherd; he will shortly distinguish between those that are his, and those that are not. All other distinctions will be done away; but the great one between saints and sinners, holy and unholy, will remain for ever. The happiness the saints shall possess is very great. It is a kingdom; the most...

Verse Matthew 25:46. _AND THESE SHALL GO AWAY INTO EVERLASTING PUNISHMENT_] No appeal, no remedy, to all eternity! No _end_ to the punishment of those whose _final_ impenitence manifests in them an eternal _will_ and _desire_ to sin. By dying in a _settled opposition_ to God, they cast themselves into a _necessity_ of continuing in an _eternal_ _aversion_ from him. But some are of opinion that this punishment shall have _an end_: this is as likely as that the glory of the righteous shall have _an_ _end_: for the same word is used to express the _duration_ of the punishment, κολασιν αιωνιον, as is used to express the duration of the state of glory: ζωην αιωνιον. I have seen the best things that have been written in favour of the final redemption of damned spirits; but I never saw an answer to the argument

AND THESE SHALL GO AWAY - These “persons.” Many, holding the doctrine of universal salvation have contended that God would punish sin only. Christ says that “those on his left hand,” shall go away - not “sins,” but “sinners.” Besides, sin, as an abstract thing, cannot be punished. Sin is nothing but an “act” - the act of a transgressor, and, to be reached at all, it must be reached by punishing the offender himself. INTO EVERLASTING PUNISHMENT - The original word translated here as “punishment” means torment, or suffering inflicted for crime. The noun is used but in one other place in the New Testament - 1 John 4:18; “Fear hath ‘torment.’” The verb from which the noun is derived is twice used - Act 4:21; 2 Pet

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,

AND THESE SHALL GO AWAY INTO EVERLASTING PUNISHMENT,.... Their excuses will not be regarded, their pleas will be of no avail, their pretensions to interest in Christ, and love to him, will be set aside; the sentence will remain irrevocable, and there will be no appeal from it, for there is no higher tribunal to bring the cause before; judgment having passed, the execution of it immediately follows: these goats, or formal professors, shall be obliged, whether they will or not, to depart from the presence of Christ; the angels will be ordered to take and cast them into everlasting burnings; they will be driven by them into hell, the place appointed for them; where they shall endure עונש נצחי "everlasting punishment", as the Jews p also express it; and that both in soul and body, as the just desert of sin; which being committed against an infinite God, cannot be satisfied for by a finite cr...

INTO EVERLASTING Judgments (the seven). (Luke 14:14); (2 Samuel 7:14); (Revelation 20:12). "Eternal" and "everlasting" are the same word....

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

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 the assumption is that all the nations have become Christian ere the Judgment. For the sheep and the goats _cf._ Ezekiel 34:17 ff. Note the sudden transition to the title King (Matthew 25:34). Have we here another adaptation to the Parousia of a parable in which originally the King was the central figure, or simply the development of a passage like Enoch 62f.? For the test _cf. Matthew 10:40_ ff., Matthew 18:5; it even goes beyo

THE FATE OF THE UNPREPARED (Matthew 25:1-13)...