35 Eurthey which ſhall be accounted worthy to obtain that world, and the reſurrection from the dead, neither marry, or are given in marriage.
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11 And again he fent another ſervant; and they beat |
and raiſe up to himſelf
unto the angels, and are the children of- God. boino! 4. children of the reſurreſtion, » being the
ſhewea at the buſh, when he calleth the Lord, of Abraham, and the God of 1laac , Jacob.
38 For he is not a God of the dead, but of the
for all live unto him. Sce the Notes on Matth. 22. 23, @&c. and on Mark 11, 16 4. where all the pailages 1n this pzece of Hiſtory are fully opened. mo equal with the Angels, 1nv. 36. we muſt not underſtand in all t;... 7 but in the thing mentioned 3 the number of the Elec ſhall be SON {5 there ſhall be no necd of marrying, or giving in Varriage 4 a, tiply the number of men. 2. There ſhall be no more ——_ mongtt men, than amongſt Angels, v. 38. | Ai live untg es v Abratam, Tjaac, and Jacob, were dead at the peaking of Pap words, yct they were not ſo in God's Eye, who was determined t; raiſ- them up in the laft day, and who with the ſame Eye "rages things palt, preſent, and to come. But ſee more in the ry fore mentioned. EO 9 Thencertain of the ſcribes an{wering, ſaid, Maſter thou haſt well laid. Fe 40 And after that, they durſt not ask him any Queſtion
at all. The Scribes were the jewiſh Doftors of the Phariſzes Fattion, ang Enemies to the Saddycees - they applaud our Saviours anſwer. ths = Hrdians before (in the caſe of tl + ' "as: asthe Herodzuns deture (10 tne.Cate of the Tribute) fo the Sadlycs, here are put to ſilence. He wil! now put the Scribes and #/,;:. % tO Hence.
the God and the God of
living ;
is Davids ton ? 12
hand,
43 Tilll make thine enemies thy footſtool.
44 David therefore catleth him Lord, hew is he he; his fon ? | |
The anſwer had been eafte if the Scribes and Phatiſces, 11; ( Matthew ſaith) were there alſo, had owned Chriſt to be the 5 y; God. But this they ard not own, ard fo (as Matthew tell: us) ©<z, 22. 45, No man was able to anſw2r him a word,» neither dur\t any man from that day forth ask him any more queſtions. Thus Chritt nonpluit all his Adverſarics.
45 Tthenin the audience of all the people, he faid ug- to his diſciples, |
45 Eeware of the ſcribes, which defire to walk in long robes, and love greetings in the markets, and the higheſt ſeats in the ſynagogues, and the chief rooms ar feaſts. | 47 Which devour widows houſes, and for a ſhey mak long prayers: the fame ſhall receive greater damns- rion. | we have met with all this before, ch. 11. 43. Matth. 23,4, -. Mark 12. 38, 35, 40. See the Notes on thoſe Texts,
CHAP. XXI.
Chriſt commendeth the ſmall gift of the poor Widow, 1——q. firete!:b the deſtruction of the Temple, and the deſoiatim of Feruſalem, 5, 5. revearſeth the ſigns foregoing the laſt Days : The tribulation and forrow that would come on his Dijciples : Promiſeth his aſſijiaice and proteetion, 5—19. Sheweth them what to do in that time, 2—24, Foretelleth the ſigns of bis laſt coming z and exhorteth to obſerve item by the fumilitude of the budding Tree, 25 33. and to exp! his comtmg with watchfulneſs and prayer, 34q—38.
I N D helooked up, and ſaw the rich men caiting their gifts into the trealury, _ | 2 And he ſaw alſo a certain poor widow, caſting 1: thither rwo mites. | | 3 2nd he faid, Of a truth I fay unto you, that this poor widow hath caft in more than they all.
4 For all theſe have of their abundance caſt in unto the offerings of God - but ſhe of her penury hath caſt in all the living that ſhe had,
We met with this piece of Hiſtory, Mark 12. 41, 42, 43» 4 Mark telleth us, that Chriſt was fitting right over again} tre Trea- ſury. Fer other thiags neceſſary to be known, to undcritand tis prcce of Hiſtory, fee the Notes on Mark 12.
'5 And as ſome ſpake of the temple, how it was adort- cd with goodly ſtones, and gifrs, he ſaid, : 6 As for theſe things which ye behold, the days wil come, in the which there ſhall not be left one ſtone vpn another, that ſhall not be thrown down. a Matthew and Mark fay, That ſome of his Diſciples ſpax< foe, Werds to him, and received this anſwer, as he was going out ot _ Temple. For th2 goodly ſtones which the Diſciples admired, WE #** told that there were ſome of them forty five Cubits long, — ol depth, and fix in breadth. The gifts here mentioned are ca%c ah the Greek,, &yaSipare, not dyatiuar, nor dogg. The Hatter xraess Sig. lignified any Gifts, Money or Plate, &c. which men = "o tarily offered, avavtiugm fignified things accurſed , OT _ «Fed God, as all the Gouds of 4j were, Foſh. 7. but this word ig 2 ſuch Gifts or Preſents made to God, as might be hung up ane — ſed to open views" Our Lord to take off his Diſciples Eyes ett
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36 Neirher can they die any more for they are * equal * ig...
37 Now that the dead are raiſed, * «ye, Motes« "EIN
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42 And David himſelf taith, in the book of * pilne Utii . p Pais, ...." The Lord faith umo my Lord, Sit thou on my right, ©
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Wat. 24+3* ; E194 ſhall theſe things be ? and what ſign will there be when
degree, that one ſtone ſhould not be left upon another 3 which how it was afterwards fulfilled within teſs than forty years, ſee. the Notes on Mat. 24- 1, 2, 3- and on Mark 13. 1, 2, God by that Providence not only deſtroying the vain confidence of the Jews, who took their Temple to be an Aſylum, or Sanftuiry for them from the Providence of God, or his Juſtice rather 3 but alſo ſeverely puniſhing them for their profanutron of his holy place ; and letting them know that the time was come, When God would put an end to all-Tjpes of. the Me: :aþ, and alſo.to all that Worſhip,” which could not make him that did the Service, perfedt, as to the Conſcience, - but ſtood only in meats and drinks, and divers waſhings, and carnal: Ordinances, impoſed on them mntil the time of reformatien, Heb. g. $9, 1v. Sce further, the Notes on Matth. 24+ 1. and Mark 13. 1. |
7 And they asked him, ſaying, * Maſter, but when
theſe things ſhall came to paſs ?