_THE PARABLE OF THE SOWER, AND THE MEANING THEREOF. WE MUST COMMUNICATE THE LIGHT OF OUR KNOWLEDGE TO OTHERS. THE PARABLE OF THE SEED GROWING SECRETLY, AND OF THE MUSTARD-SEED. CHRIST STILLETH THE TEMPEST ON THE SEA._ _Anno Domini 30._... [ Continue Reading ]
FOWLS— Or, _Birds._ The words του ουρανου, _of the air,_ are not in most manuscripts.... [ Continue Reading ]
STONY GROUND,— Or, _Rocky ground._... [ Continue Reading ]
AND WHEN HE WAS ALONE,— Many writers of harmonies, thinking this inconsistent with the acknowledged circumstances of the history, havesupposed, that the interpretation of the parable was not given now, but on some other occasion, though, for the sake of perspicuity, it is related together with the p... [ Continue Reading ]
UNTO THEM THAT WERE WITHOUT— Τοις εξω, the people out of the vessel,—the multitude on the shore. See εξω, used in a similar sense in the history of Peter's denial of his Master, Matthew 26:69. The following words at first sight seem to import, that Jesus spoke to the people obscurely, in parables, o... [ Continue Reading ]
IS A CANDLE BROUGHT, &C. _CANDLESTICK?_— _Is a lamp,_ &c.—_stand._ Campbell. When Jesus had ended his interpretation of the parable of the sower, he did not direct his discourse to the people, but continued speaking to the apostles, shewing them, by the similitude of a lighted lamp, the use that the... [ Continue Reading ]
WITH WHAT MEASURE, &C.— The sense is, "God will proportion his lights to the measure of our docility:" a momentous truth! to which we can never sufficiently attend.... [ Continue Reading ]
SO IS THE KINGDOM OF GOD,— In this parable we are informed, that as the husbandman does not, by any efficacy of his own, cause the seed to grow, but leaves it to be nourished by the soil and sun; so Jesus and his apostles, having taught men the doctrines of true religion, were not by any miraculous... [ Continue Reading ]
GREATER THAN ALL HERBS,— The original means, _Larger than other plants of the pulse kind._... [ Continue Reading ]
IN THE HINDER PART OF THE SHIP,— Or, _At the stern._... [ Continue Reading ]
HE AROSE, AND REBUKED THE WIND,— Nothing can be more grand and striking than the present miracle. "Amidst all the distress and confusion of the storm, the divine Master appears (according to Mr. Hervey's description) sedately rising from a gentle slumber; he sees the perplexity and horror of his com... [ Continue Reading ]