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Verse Matthew 24:51. _CUT HIM ASUNDER_] This refers to an ancient
mode of punishment used in several countries. Isaiah is reported to
have been _sawed_ ASUNDER. That it was an ancient mode of punishm...
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This passage is, in fact, “a parable,” though it is not expressly
so called. The design is to show that his disciples should act as if
they were each moment expecting his return. This he illustrates b...
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12. THE OLIVET DISCOURSE; THE KING REVEALS THE FUTURE OF THE KINGDOM.
Chapter s 24-25.
CHAPTER 24
1. The Destruction of the Temple Foretold. (Matthew 24:1 .) 2. The
Questions of the Disciples. (Mat...
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MATTHEW 24:42 TO MATTHEW 25:13. Abbreviating Mark 13:33, with its
simile of the absent householder, into one verse (Matthew 24:42; _cf._
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Watch, therefore, for you do not know on what day your Lord comes.
Understand this--that if the householder had known at what watch of
the night the thief was coming, he would have been awake, and he...
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THE VISION OF THINGS TO COME (Matthew 24:1-31)
We have already seen that it is one of the great characteristics of
Matthew that he gathers together in large blocks the teaching of Jesus
about differe...
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WEEPING AND GNASHING. See note on Matthew 8:12....
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ΔΙΧΟΤΟΜΉΣΕΙ. See Daniel 2:5; Daniel 3:29. μένει
γὰρ ὁ ἄγγελος τοῦ θεοῦ τὴν
ῥομφαίαν ἔχων πρίσαι σε μέσον, (Susanna,
59.) Comp. also ‘Multos honesti ordinis aut ad bestias condemnavit,
aut serra dissec...
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THE STEWARDS OF GOD
Luke 12:41-48, where this parable is joined on to the preceding one by
a question of St Peter, ‘Lord, speakest thou this parable unto us,
or even to all?’ Mark 13:37 has ‘what I s...
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THE COMING OF CHRIST; THE NEED OF WATCHFULNESS
More briefly reported in Mark 13:32-37; Luke 21:34-36...
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Ver 45. "Who then is a faithful and wise servant, whom his lord hath
made ruler over his household, to give them meat in due season? 46.
Blessed is that servant, whom his lord when he cometh shall fin...
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VER 42. "WATCH THEREFORE: FOR YE KNOW NOT WHAT HOUR YOUR LORD DOTH
COME. 43. BUT KNOW THIS, THAT IF THE GOODMAN OF THE HOUSE HAD KNOWN IN
WHAT WATCH THE THIEF WOULD COME, HE WOULD HAVE WATCHED, AND WO...
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_THE FAITHFUL MUST WATCH AND PREPARE MATTHEW 24:45-51_ : The servant
who watches for the Master's return will have a great motivation to
faithfulness and will be blessed. "Blessed is that servant whom...
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ΔΙΧΟΤΟΜΉΣΕΙ _fut. ind. act. от_ ΔΙΧΟΤΟΜΈΩ
(G1371) рассекать пополам. В Exodus 29:17 этот
гл. используется для обозначения
рассечения на части жертвенного
животного (McNiele; Hagner; _см._ Matthew 24:4...
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BUT, &C.— _But if that servant, being evil, shall say,_ &c. Heylin.
"If on the other hand you behave like wicked stewards, who, because
their Lord delays his coming, beat their fellow-servants, and ge...
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SHALL CUT HIM ASUNDER— This was one of the heaviest kinds of
punishment anciently used: see 1 Samuel 15:33. 2 Samuel 12:31.Daniel
2:5; Daniel 3:29.
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3. ILLUSTRATION OF THE CONSCIENTIOUS AND THE HYPOCRITICAL SERVANT
(24:45-51)
45 Who then is the faithful and wise servant, whom his lord hath set
over his household, to give them their food in due sea...
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And Jesus went out, and departed from the temple: and his disciples
came to him for to shew him the buildings of the temple.
For the exposition of this wonderful Prophecy, which will be best
appreh...
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29-31 Compare Mar_13:24-26; Luk_21:26-27.
29 See Rev_6:12-17; Isa_13:10; Joe_2:30-31; Joe_3:15; Amo_5:20.
29 Israel goes through the great affliction, and watches for the Son
of Mankind, Who will sta...
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THE DESTRUCTION OF JERUSALEM AND THE END OF THE WORLD FORETOLD
1. Jesus went out] RV 'Jesus went out from the temple, and was going
on his way, and his disciples,' etc.
THE BUILDINGS] The magnificent...
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GREAT PROPHECY OF THE DESTRUCTION OF JERUSALEM, AND THE END OF THE
WORLD (Mark 13:8; Luke 21:7). Many of the most serious difficulties of
this great discourse disappear when it is realised that our Lo...
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AN EXHORTATION TO FAITHFULNESS AND WATCHFULNESS ADDRESSED SPECIALLY TO
THE APOSTLES AND OTHER CHIEF MINISTERS OF THE CHURCH (Luke 12:39). It
appropriately closes the discourse, but whether it really b...
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CUT HIM ASUNDER] RM 'severely scourge him,' i.e. consign him, to the
place of final punishment....
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MATTHEW’S GOOD NEWS
MATTHEW’S *GOSPEL
_HILDA BRIGHT_
CHAPTER 24
JESUS TELLS WHAT WILL HAPPEN TO THE *TEMPLE 24:1-2
V1 Then Jesus left the *Temple. He was walking away when his
*disciples came u...
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AND SHALL CUT HIM ASUNDER. — Here also, as in the case of the
faithful servant, the words have more than one fulfilment. The form of
punishment (one which, in its literal sense, belongs to the inventi...
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CHAPTER 18
The Prophecy on the Mount - Matthew 24:1 & Matthew 25:1
WE have seen that though the Saviour's public ministry is now closed,
He still has a private ministry to discharge-a ministry of cou...
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_Two parables: the Thief_ and _the Two Servants_, enforcing the
lesson: Watch!...
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διχοτομήσει, he will cut him in sunder as with a saw, an
actual mode of punishment in ancient times, and many commentators
think that this barbarous penalty is seriously meant here. But this
can hardl...
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WATCH AND WORK
Matthew 24:40-51
There are many comings of the Son of man before the final one to
judgment. We may derive the full benefit of our Lord's words, even
though we have arrived at no settl...
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Passing from the city, the disciples drew their Master's attention to
the stones of the Temple, and He told them that this glorious building
would be demolished so that no single stone would be left u...
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And shall (y) cut him asunder, and appoint [him] his portion with the
hypocrites: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
(y) That is, from the rest, or will cut him into two pieces, which was
a...
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CHAPTER 20
COMING OF THE LORD
Matthew 24; Matthew 25; Mark 13; Luke 21. It is now in the afternoon,
on Wednesday, preceding the arrest of our Savior about midnight the
ensuin
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REFLECTIONS
Blessed Lord Jesus! be thou everlastingly loved and adored, in that
thou earnest forth from the bosom of the Father, to make known the
sacred purposes of his holy will and which were all p...
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"But as the days of Noe were, so shall also the coming of the Son of
man be. (38) For as in the days that were before the flood they were
eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until th...
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We now enter on the Lord's final presentation of Himself to Jerusalem,
traced, however, from Jericho; that is, from the city which had once
been the stronghold of the power of the Canaanite. The Lord...
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We have already seen that the rejection of the testimony to the
kingdom in grace, is the cause of the judgment that falls upon
Jerusalem and its inhabitants. Now in chapter 24 we have the position
of...
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AND SHALL CUT HIM ASUNDER,.... The Persic version renders it, "he
shall separate him from himself": he shall separate soul and body by
death; he shall take away all his gifts and talents from him; and...
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And shall cut him asunder, and appoint _him_ his portion with the
hypocrites: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
Ver. 51. _And shall cut him asunder_] Gr. διχοτομησει,
shall cut him in twa...
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_Who then is the faithful and wise servant_ Which of you aspires after
this character? _Wise_ Every moment retaining the clearest conviction
that all he now has is only intrusted to him as a steward:...
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CUT HIM ASUNDER; the reference is to the punishment of cutting or
sawing asunder. The meaning is, he shall punish him with awful
severity....
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AND SHALL CUT HIM ASUNDER, AND APPOINT HIM HIS PORTION WITH THE
HYPOCRITES; THERE SHALL BE WEEPING AND GNASHING OF TEETH.
The opposite side of the picture: the servant that takes advantage of
the supp...
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The unfaithful servant:...
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He leaves the temple, and in Matthew is not seen there again. What can
it be now without its proper Inhabitant? But the disciples draw His
attention to the ornate buildings that were really only the w...
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CUT HIM ASUNDER:
Or, cut him off...
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42-51 To watch for Christ's coming, is to maintain that temper of
mind which we would be willing that our Lord should find us in. We
know we have but a little time to live, we cannot know that we hav...
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Ver. 47-51. Luke hath much of this, LUKE 12:45,46: _But and if that
servant say in his heart, My lord delayeth his coming; and shall begin
to beat the men servants and maidens, and to eat and drink, a...
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Constitutions of the Holy Apostles Book VII
Thou shalt not be an hypocrite, lest thy "portion be with them."[52]...
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WORDS AFTER LEAVING THE TEMPLE ABOUT THE DESTRUCTION OF THE TEMPLE AND
ABOUT HIS SECOND COMING (24:1-51).
a Introduction in which Jesus declares that the Temple will be utterly
destroyed (Matthew 24:...
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IN THE LIGHT OF HIS SECOND COMING ALL ARE TO WATCH WISELY AND WORK
FAITHFULLY (24:43-51).
There now follow a series of parables in which Jesus stresses both the
need to watch and the need to work. Ind...
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“And shall cut him apart, and appoint his portion with the
hypocrites. There will be the weeping and the gnashing of teeth.”
Jesus does not draw back from the idea of the severest penalty. He
will be...
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Matthew 24:51. AND SHALL OUT HIM ASUNDER. An ancient mode of
punishment among the Israelites (1 Samuel 15:33; 2 Samuel 12:31).
Extreme punishment is here meant, but the peculiar expression
indicates s...
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Matthew 24:45-51. A parable, though not distinctly marked as such in
its form. Comp. the parallel account in Mark 13:34-36; and similar
language on another occasion in Luke 12:35-46. Such repetitions...
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Matthew 24:42. _Watch therefore: for ye know not what hour your Lord
doth come._
That he will come, is certain. That his coming may be at any moment,
is equally sure; and, therefore, we ought to be a...
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CONTENTS: Destruction of the temple foretold. The course of the
present age outlined; its culmination in the great tribulation and
followed by the return of Christ in power and glory. Parable of the
f...
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Matthew 24:1. _The buildings of the temple._ Herod had gradually
rebuilt the temple, taking down one part, and raising it anew, so that
the worship was not interrupted. Hence it was still the second t...
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WHO, THEN, IS THE FAITHFUL AND WISE SERVANT? This parable is also
found in Luke [it may have been told many times by Jesus]. See also 2
Peter 3:1-9, The central idea of this parable is that God's peop...
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Who, then, is that faithful and wise servant.
I. The particular relation in which we are here represented as
standing to the one that is above us.
II. The representation that is here given of that a...
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MATTHEW—NOTE ON MATTHEW 24:48 DELAYED. The behavior of the WICKED
SERVANT shows that he is a false disciple (see Galatians 5:19
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Jesus tells about his return Matthew 24:36-51; Mark 13:32-37; Luke
21:34-36; Luke 12:39-46;...
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_MAIN HOMILETICS OF THE PARAGRAPH.— Matthew 24:36_
The uncertainty of the end.—We ought to know the season, we cannot
know the moment, of the “appearing” of Christ. So the Saviour
teaches us here. “Of...
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EXPOSITION
MATTHEW 24:1
PROPHECY OF THE DESTRUCTION OF JERUSALEM, AND OF THE TIMES OF THE
END. ...
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Now Jesus went out (Matthew 24:1),
Left the house desolate. He is rejected now. They've rejected Him, now
He has rejected them. Leave the house desolate; you're not going to
see me again until you ar...
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Isaiah 33:14; Job 20:29; Luke 12:46; Luke 13:28; Matthew 22:13;...
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And allot him his portion with the hypocrites — The worst of
sinners, as upright and sincere as he was once. If ministers are the
persons here primarily intended, there is a peculiar propriety in the...