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Expositor's Bible: The Gospel of Matthew
Gibson, John Monro · 139,249 words · 189 reading sections
_The Third Day._
The account before us is the briefest of all, and therefore it would be especially out of place in dealing with this Gospel to attempt to fill up the blanks and construct a consecutive history of all that took place on that eventful day. But there is one point with which it is especially necessary to deal in considerin…
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The conduct of the chief priests and scribes (vv. 11-15) is the natural sequel of their futile attempt to seal the sepulchre. It is in vain to raise the objection, as some do, that it was too clumsy a device for men so astute; for what else could they do? It was indeed a poor evasion; but, baffled as they were, no bett…
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MATT. xxviii. 16-20. This brief concluding passage is all St. Matthew gives us of the thirty-nine days which followed the Resurrection and preceded the Ascension. It would seem as if he fully realised that the manifestations of these days belonged rather to the heavenly than to the earthly work of Jesus, and that ther…
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The choice of a mountain in the north was moreover suitable as signalising the setting aside of Mount Zion and Jerusalem as the seat of empire. From this point of view we can see still another reason why St. Matthew, the Evangelist for the Jew, should mention the formal inauguration of the new kingdom in the north. The…
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"All authority hath been given unto Me in heaven and on earth" (R.V.). What words are these to come from One Who has just been put to death for claiming to be the king of the Jews! King of kings and Lord of lords is the title now He claims. And yet it is as Son of man He speaks. He does not speak as God, and say, "All …
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Easily said; but how shall it be done? We can imagine the feeling of bewilderment and helplessness with which the disciples would listen to their marching orders, until all was changed by the simple and sublime assurance at the close: "And lo, I am with you alway, even unto the end of the world." This assurance is perh…
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That was a momentary relapse, as it were, into the language of eternity; but this last "I am" marks a change in His relations to His disciples: it is the note of the new dispensation of the Spirit. These forty days were a transition time marked by special manifestations--not wholly material as in the days of the Incarn…
676 wordsSECTION 188The Expositor'S Bible.
1889-90. _Crown 8vo. Cloth. Price 7s. 6d. each._ JUDGES AND RUTH. By the Rev. R. A. WATSON, M.A. THE PROPHECIES OF JEREMIAH. By the Rev. C. J. BALL, M.A., Chaplain of Lincoln's Inn. THE PROPHECIES OF ISAIAH. Vol. II. Completing the Work. By the Rev. GEORGE ADAM SMITH, M.A. THE GOSPEL OF ST. MATTHEW. By the Rev. T.…
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