“ While the bridegroom tarried, they all slumbered and slept. ”
The bridegroom tarried - That is, while they waited for him. It was uncertain at what time he would come. He delayed longer than they expected. All slumbered and slept - Waiting until near mi...
While the bridegroom tarried, they all (b) slumbered and slept. (b) Their eyes being heavy with sleep.
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...
slumbered . became drowsy. Greek. nustazo. Occurs only here and 2 Peter 2:3 . slept . went to sleep (and continued asleep). Greek. katheudo.
5. And while the bridegroom tarried, they all slumbered and slept. Some interpret this slumbering in a bad sense, as if believers, along with others, abandoned themselves to sloth, and were...
While the bridegroom tarried, they all slumbered and slept. The bridegroom tarried - The coming of the bridegroom to an individual may imply his death: his coming to the world - the final judgment. T...
While the bridegroom tarried, they all slumbered and slept. While the bridegroom tarried. So in Matthew 24:48 , "My Lord delayeth His coming;" and so Peter says sublimely of the ascended Sav...
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...
While the bridegroom tarried. — Strictly speaking, the time thus described includes the whole interval between our Lord’s Ascension and His final Advent; but looking to the law of “springing and ge...
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...
While the bridegroom tarried ,.... The space of time here referred to, is either from the ascension of Christ, to his coming to take vengeance on the Jews; or from thence to his second coming; or ra...
While the bridegroom tarried, they all slumbered and slept. Ver. 5. While the bridegroom tarried ] Tarry he doth. 1. To exercise our patience. 2. To eneager our desires. 3. That his elect may be...
While the bridegroom tarried That is, before they were called to attend him; they all slumbered and slept That is, all Christians, so called, good and bad, sincere and hypocrites, those who reall...
"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 25:1-5 I. The main difficulty of interpretation in this parable is to understand what is meant by the wise and foolish virgins respectively; and also what is meant by the "taking oil in th...
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...
The Parable of the Ten Virgins. The delay of the bridegroom:
1 Peter 5:8 ; 1 Thessalonians 5:6-8 ; 2 Peter 3:4-9 ; Ephesians 5:14 ; Habakkuk 2:3 ; Hebrews 10:36 ; Hebrews 10:37 ; Jonah 1:5 ; Jonah 1:6 ; Luke 12:45 ; Luke 18:8 ; Luke 20:9 ; Matthew...
While the bridegroom delayed — That is, before they were called to attend him, they all slumbered and slept — Were easy and quiet, the wise enjoying a true, the foolish a false peace.