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Referring to Job 33:28 (Ps 50:13).
supplications--or, "cries for mercy."
(Compare De 28:37; Ps 79:4).
(Jer 6:28).
(Eze 28:25; 34:13; 36:24).
fear--religious awe; under the impression that God's hand was specially in these events (compare Lu 5:26; 7:16; 8:37).
espoused wife--now, without doubt, taken home to him, as related in Mt 1:18; 25:6.
I must, &c.--but duty only could move Him to deny entreaties so grateful to His spirit.
housetop--the flat roof. through the tiling...before Jesus--(See on Mr 2:2).
healed--kept healing, denoting successive acts of mercy till it went over "all" that needed. There is something unusually grand and pictorial in this touch of description.
laugh--How charming is the liveliness of this word, to express what in Matthew is called being "comforted!"
son of peace--inwardly prepared to embrace your message of peace. See note on "worthy," (see on Mt 10:13).
uppermost seats--(See on Lu 14:7-11). greetings--(See on Mt 23:7-10).
gird himself, &c.--"a promise the most august of all: Thus will the Bridegroom entertain his friends (nay, servants) on the solemn Nuptial Day" [Bengel].
in the field--engaged in his father's business: compare Lu 15:29, "These many years do I serve thee."
unrighteous mammon--To the whole of this He applies the disparaging term "what is least," in contrast with "the true riches."
this stranger--"this alien" (literally, "of another race"). The language is that of wonder and admiration, as is expressly said of another exhibition of Gentile faith (Mt 8:10).
Bethphage--"house of figs," a village which with Bethany lay along the further side of Mount Olivet, east of Jerusalem.
beat, &c.--(Mt 21:35); that is, the prophets, extraordinary messengers raised up from time to time. (See on Mt 23:37.)
But ye...not--Of how little avail has this condemnation of "lordship" and vain titles been against the vanity of Christian ecclesiastics?
stood and vehemently accused him--no doubt both of treason before the king, and of blasphemy, for the king was a Jew.
Moses and all the prophets, &c.--Here our Lord both teaches us the reverence due to Old Testament Scripture, and the great burden of it--"Himself."
The repetition of "heart" denotes his sincerity.
crown...the drunkards--rather, "the crown of the drunkards."
(De 28:53; La 4:10).
He is not the God of the dead, but the God of the living--not "the God of dead but [the God] of living persons." The word in brackets is almost certainly an addition to the genuine text, and...
bonnets--turbans.
glory of the Lord--(Eze 1:28).
sixth month--of Elisabeth's time. Joseph, of the house of David--(See on Mt 1:16).