“ Afterward came also the other virgins, saying, Lord, Lord, open to us. ”
Open unto us - This is not to be understood as implying that any will come after the righteous shall be admitted into the kingdom, and claim admission then. It is a part of the parable to illustr...
Matthew 24:42 to Matthew 25:13 . Abbreviating Mark 13:33-37 , with its simile of the absent householder, into one verse ( Matthew 24:42 ; cf. Luke 21:36 ), Mt. inserts ( a) the short simile...
came also the other virgins . "came the other virgins also". lord, lord. Figure of speech Epizeuxis, App-6, for emph., denoting urgency.
Afterward came also the other virgins, saying, Lord, Lord, open to us. Afterwards came also the other virgins, saying, Lord, Lord - Earnest prayer, when used in time, may do much good: but it appears...
Afterward came also the other virgins, saying, Lord, Lord, open to us. Afterward came also the other virgins, saying, Lord, Lord, open to us. In Matthew 7:22 this reiteration of the name wa...
Parable of the Ten Virgins. Professing Christians, who alone are addressed here, are warned of the absolute need of sufficient oil, i.e. of sufficient depth and reality in the spiritual life, if th...
Chapter 18 The Prophecy on the Mount - Matthew 24:1-51 & Matthew 25:1-46 WE have seen that though the Saviour's public ministry is now closed, He still has a private ministry to discharge...
Be Ready for the Bridegroom Matthew 25:1-13 Three remarkable parables occupy this chapter and follow a marked sequence of thought. First, we are called upon to look to ourselves, and be sure th...
"Then." This gives us the time in which the Kingdom of Heaven will be likened unto ten virgins. That Kingdom passes through many phases, but just before the coming of the King this will be its charac...
"Then shall the kingdom of heaven be likened unto ten virgins, which took their lamps, and went forth to meet the bridegroom. (2) And five of them were wise, and five were foolish. (3) They that were...
THE CLOSED DOOR ‘And the door was shut.’ Matthew 25:10 Very solemn tone in these words, even standing alone; this feeling increases when you see in what connection they occur. They are not w...
Afterwards came also the other virgins ,.... The "other five virgins", as the Persic version reads. The "other"; that were only virgins in name, not in reality; they were different from the wise, th...
Afterward came also the other virgins, saying, Lord, Lord, open to us. Ver. 11. Afterward came also the other virgins ] The greater number by odds that stand trifling and baffling with Christ, an...
While they went to buy While they made some unsuccessful efforts to obtain oil, and light their lamps; the bridegroom came, and they that were ready They who had put on the wedding- garment, who...
"Then," that is, at the time when things must be brought to their proper conclusion, "shall the kingdom of heaven be likened unto ten virgins." These take lamps to go forth to meet the bridegroom. Th...
The Parable of the Ten Virgins. 1 Then shall the kingdom of heaven be likened unto ten virgins, which took their lamps, and went fo...
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The Parable of the Ten Virgins Another emphasis on the fact that all must be ready for His second coming is found in this parable. It is the parable of ten maidens who were to go out to meet the b...
CRITICAL NOTES Matthew 25:1 . Then shall the kingdom of heaven .—The three parables of this chapter appear here as in closest sequence to the great discourse of chap. 24, and are as its natural...
Matthew 25:1-13 Here is one of the larger and grander pictures in this gallery of various glory. It is sublime in its ample outline, and exquisitely tender in its details. It is charged with many...
Matthew 25:1-4 . Then shall the kingdom of heaven be likened unto ten virgins, which took their lamps, and went forth to meet the bridegroom. And five of them were wise, and five were foolish. Th...
Matthew 25:1 . Ten virgins took their lamps to meet the bridegroom. Homer names the like custom among the Greeks, of the bridegroom being preseded by virgins bearing lighted torches. The virgins r...
Then shall the kingdom of heaven be likened unto ten virgins. The ten virgins I. We have here two characters contrasted. “Five were wise and five were foolish.” That we may define the differenc...
EXPOSITION Matthew 25:1-40 Parable of the ten virgins. (Peculiar to St. Matthew.) This parable, as a continuation of the teaching of the last chapter, sets forth the necessity of having a...
Afterward came also the other virgins, saying, Lord, Lord, open to us.
Hebrews 12:16 ; Hebrews 12:17 ; Matthew 7:21-23