“ Then all those virgins arose, and trimmed their lamps. ”
Trimmed their lamps - Burning until midnight, the oil was exhausted: they gave a dim and obscure light. They trimmed them by removing the burnt parts of the linen or the torch, so that they would...
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...
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Then all those virgins arose, and trimmed their lamps. Trimmed their lamps - Εκοσμησαν, adorned them. I have seen some of the eastern lamps or lanthorns, the body of which was a skeleton of wood and...
Then all those virgins arose, and trimmed their lamps. Then all those virgins arose, and trimmed their lamps - the foolish virgins as well as the wise. How very long do both parties seem the...
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...
Then all these virgins arose ,.... Not out of their graves; for the righteous and wicked will not rise together; the dead in Christ will rise first, and this first resurrection will not be till Chri...
Then all those virgins arose, and trimmed their lamps. Ver. 7. And trimmed their lamps ] The foolish also made a fair flourish, and held themselves, haply, in case good enough for heaven; deceivi...
And at midnight In an hour quite unthought of, and the most alarming. Perhaps the tradition mentioned by Jerome, which asserted that Christ would come to judgment at midnight, might be borrowed fro...
"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...
The coming of the bridegroom:
2 Peter 3:14 ; Luke 12:35 ; Revelation 2:4 ; Revelation 2:5 ; Revelation 3:19 ; Revelation 3:2 ; Revelation 3:20
They trimmed their lamps — They examined themselves and prepared to meet their God.