Mark 10:21._One thing thou wantest. _Christ therefore does not mean
that the _young man wanted _one _Thing _beyond the keeping of the law,
but in the very keeping of the law. For though the law nowhere obliges
us to _sell all_, yet as it represses all sinful desires, and teaches
us to _bear the cros... [ Continue Reading ]
Mark 10:52._Thy faith hath saved thee _By the word_faith _is meant not
only a confident hope of recovering sight, but a loftier conviction,
which was, that this _blind man _had acknowledged Jesus to be the
Messiah whom God had promised. Nor must we imagine that it was only
some confused knowledge; f... [ Continue Reading ]