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Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

Matthew 25

Matthew 25:1

MATTHEW CHAPER 25 MATTHEW 25:1 The parable of the ten virgins, MATTHEW 25:14 and of the talents, which a king distributed among his servants, to be improved by them. MATTHEW 25:31 A description of the last judgment. SEE POOLE ON "MATTHEW 25:13".... [ Continue Reading ]

Matthew 25:13

OLBGrk; Ver. 1-13. For the understanding of all parables, I have formerly showed, that parables are similitudes brought from some earthly things, or actions, to illustrate some heavenly doctrine, or spiritual mysteries, and insinuate them into our practice. For the right understanding of all parable... [ Continue Reading ]

Matthew 25:15

Ver. 14,15. There is much the same parable LUKE 19:12, but the difference is so great in the narration, and the time, and circumstances, and scope seem so different, that the best expositors think it another, and spoken at another time, though there be much of this in that: I shall therefore leave t... [ Continue Reading ]

Matthew 25:18

Ver. 16-18. This part in the parable only showeth the different use that men and women make of those gifts, whether of common providence or of grace, especially common grace, which the Lord bestowed on them. Some make a great use of them for the profit of their Master, for the end for which God entr... [ Continue Reading ]

Matthew 25:19

God, in the day of judgment, will call all men to account for those gifts which he hath given them, how they have used the days of life, the measures of health, their knowledge, wit, memory, understanding, their wealth, estate, honours, dignities, relations, all their natural or acquired habits, all... [ Continue Reading ]

Matthew 25:23

Ver. 20-23. This part of the parable teacheth us only these things: 1. That some persons in this world make a very good use and improvement of those gifts and good things which God hath entrusted them with, according to the measure with which God hath entrusted them. 2. That those who do so shall i... [ Continue Reading ]

Matthew 25:27

Ver. 24-27. We must remember that we are in a parable, which (as other similitudes) cannot be expected in all things to agree with what it is brought to illustrate. This part of the parable doth chiefly instruct us in these two things: 1. That it is the genius of wicked men to lay the blame of thei... [ Continue Reading ]

Matthew 25:30

Ver. 28-30. God often in this life deprives men and women of those gifts which he hath given them, and they do not make use of for the glory of his name, and the good of their and others souls, the great ends for which he hath entrusted them with them. But this seems not to be here intended, this te... [ Continue Reading ]

Matthew 25:33

Ver. 31-33. Our Saviour having spoken much before of his spiritual kingdom, which he exerciseth in his church, cometh now more plainly to tell them what kind of a kingdom he should further set up and exercise in the end of the world; far different from that which the Jews dreamed of, and his own dis... [ Continue Reading ]

Matthew 25:34

_ The King, _ that is, he who was before called _the Son of man, _ who shall then sit on the throne of his glory; he shall say to his saints, to those on his right hand, those whom he designs to honour and to favour, COME, YE BLESSED OF MY FATHER; you whom my Father hath blessed with all spiritual b... [ Continue Reading ]

Matthew 25:40

Ver. 35-40. The recompences of the last judgment are according to the tenor of our good works, and the desert of evil works. The King here gives the reason of his gracious rewarding sentence, FOR I WAS AN HUNGRED, AND YE GAVE ME MEAT. This doth not imply any desert, much less any worthiness of equal... [ Continue Reading ]

Matthew 25:45

Ver. 41-45. The great King and Judge of the whole earth had before given sentence for those on his right hand, who are now possessed of their kingdom, and sit with him to judge the world. He now comes to sentence the goats at the left hand, whose judgment is to eternal misery; lying in two things:... [ Continue Reading ]

Matthew 25:46

So then it seems they shall rise as well as the other; though they live in the lands of the Grand Seignior, or the Great Mogul, they shall not (as some filthy dreamers have thought) have such a quiet sleep in the graves, but that the sound of the last trump shall awaken them. Nor are they out of the... [ Continue Reading ]

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