PUBLIC-DOMAIN CHRISTIAN BOOK
The Pulpit Commentary — Mark — Volume 1
Edward Henry Bickersteth [1925-1906] · 331,482 words · 374 reading sections
The Pulpit Commentary — Mark — Volume 1 — Section 361
the inward echo of Christ's outward voice, is a rule allowing of no relaxation, even under the most favourable religious influences. 'l'he true idea of the disciple suggests the absolute, unconditional self-surrender-the whole life laid at the feet of the· Master. II. The subsequent words point to a buying of the l…
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representations, wearies and saddens the mind. Hence the craving for amusement, which gives change to the perpetual march past of the same old thoughts. The feeling is natural enough. The Jews, who had no science in our sense, and did not live in an interesting age like ours, wanted signs and wonders to amuse. We can u…
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to him, as to most of us. Not so to Christ. The mere suggestion that the real is to be preferred to the idea.I, mere life to duty, self-interest to the kingdom of God, he 1puros from him as the suggestion of a dark spirit. IIL SELF-RENUNCIATION. " Let him renounce himself!" says Christ to the recruit for his army, tli…
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senUng their respective sexes in owning his Messiahsbip. So afterwards, on his triumphal entry into Jerusalem, when the crowd that went before and the crowd that followed after had cried, "Hosanna to the Son of David: Blessed is he that cometh in the Name of the Lord; Hosanna. in the highest I" the children in the temp…
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duceeism, may here, by way of eminence, represent that eect. Leaven, with the single exception of the parable of the leaven, is always used for evil of some sort, especially evil secretly working and silently diffusing itself; and hence, in preparation for the Passover, leaven was to be purged out of all the househo…
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test, cured two blind men in the house whither they had followed him. Besides these epocially recorded casos, we have several references of a general kind to our Lord's healing of the blind. The great number of instances of this kind is accounted for by the fact that blindness is a disease much more common in the Ea…
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ordinary medical application in such cases. We are rather inclined to adopt the view of variation, for the purpose of proving independence of any specific or stereotyped mode in euch miraculous performance. ,vith respect to the progressiveness of the cure a similar diversity of opinion prevails. Theophylact attribut…
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word and work ; they rather denote-the former the virtue proceeding from the Saviour, which restored the extinct sense of sight, the latter the rectification of the organ. Just as in the case of the person born blind, who was couched for blindness, the recovery here also was gradual ; so with the spiritually blind we p…
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him to conquer." But, if we examine the matter with 1my degree of accuracy, we shall find that this bold adventurer overran only a few countries of tbo then known world, and but e. very inconsiderable portion of those immense continents and many islands which modern geographical discovery has added to the present hu…
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it is manifest that that object itself cannot be enjoyed. And even if we knew all the qualities of every fowl of heaven, of eyery ~sh _of the sea, of every plant that grows on the snrface and of every mineral that 1e buried m the bowels of the earth, yet what use could any one individual make of them all? What a small …
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things; to make us alive to the things of God; and, above all, to impress on us the worth of the soul and spiritual life. We have seen that if a man could possess the whole world_ he might s~ill ~ unh~pp_y-ay, perfectl! mi~erable; fearH harassing him~ conscience tormenting him, affhct1ons overwhelmmg him, death overtak…
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fonr of these as the most obvious. We may estimate it by the infinite price paid for it, by the immensity of its capacHies, by its intrinsic worth, and by the immortality of its being. 2, The price paid. The price paid for the soul was a precious ransom price, "for the redemption of the soul is precious." 'l'hat price …
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• The eoul of man, JehoV&h'e breath, It keeps two worlds in strife; Hell works beneath its work of death, Heaven stoop, to give it life." f. The.full force of the question. What, then, we may repeat, shall it profit a man, if he shall gRin the whole world-and yet all the gain any man can expect is infinitely less …
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like Job when his cattle were lost, and when his children had perished, and want had come in like an armed man; yet, by years of patient industry and steady perseverance under the Divine blessing, you may, like that same patriarch, gain double of all yo~ lost. But oh I there is no reparation for the loss of the soul ;…
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