12 Compare Luk_6:31.
12 To do as we would be done by is an ethical standard far above the
world's attainment, yet far beneath the monitions of grace. The law
and the prophets demand compliance with this code, yet supply no power
to carry it out. Grace gives the ability, yet makes no demands, but
ra... [ Continue Reading ]
5-13 Compare Luk_7:1-10.
5 This is followed by an intimation that, though rejected by His own,
He would be accepted by the nations, as is the case in the book of
Acts. The priest was at one end of the religious scale, and the alien
centurion at the other. Yet it was the far-off gentile who believed... [ Continue Reading ]
25 Ever and anon, while revealing His own glory and exercising the
faith of His followers, our
Lord presents a marvelous prophetic picture of the course of the
kingdom proclamation. Here we have a preview, on a small scale and in
physical symbols, of that terrible time of affliction, which will
thr... [ Continue Reading ]