those. those former ones.
Trimmed their lamps - Burning until midnight, the oil was exhausted: they gave a dim and obscure light. They trimmed them by removing the burnt p...
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....
Then all those virgins arose, and trimmed their lamps. Trimmed their lamps - Εκοσμησαν, adorned them. I have seen some of the eastern lamps or lantho...
Then all those virgins arose, and trimmed their lamps. Then all those virgins arose, and trimmed their lamps - the foolish virgins as well as...
Parable of the Ten Virgins. Professing Christians, who alone are addressed here, are warned of the absolute need of sufficient oil, i.e. of suffici...
The Ten Viegins. The Talents. The Sheep and the Goats The whole of this a, which is entirely concerned with the Second Advent, and contains some o...
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 cl...
Be Ready for the Bridegroom Matthew 25:1-13 Three remarkable parables occupy this chapter and follow a marked sequence of thought. First, we ar...
"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 bef...
"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 we...
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,...
Then all those virgins arose, and trimmed their lamps. Ver. 7. And trimmed their lamps ] The foolish also made a fair flourish, and held themselv...
And at midnight In an hour quite unthought of, and the most alarming. Perhaps the tradition mentioned by Jerome, which asserted that Christ would c...
"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...
The Parable of the Ten Virgins. 1 Then shall the kingdom of heaven be likened unt...
See Poole on " Matthew 25:13 " .
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 parab...
‘Then all those virgins arose, and trimmed their torches.' And as a result all arose and ‘trimmed their torches'. They did all that was necessary in...
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 gr...
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 exquisite...
Matthew 25:6-9 Mark here:. I. The Discovery. "Our lamps are gone out." (1) There is no indwelling grace. Their lamps went out because they had no...
Matthew 25:7 I. Our parable teaches that, however long and deeply a man may sleep, he is sure to awake at last. "Then." Is it not true that to eve...
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...
Matthew 25:1-2 . Then shall the kingdom of heaven be likened unto ten virgins, which took their lamps, and went forth to meet the bridegroom. And f...
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...
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 fi...
EXPOSITION Matthew 25:1-40 Parable of the ten virgins. (Peculiar to St. Matthew.) This parable, as a continuation of the teaching of the...
The coming of the bridegroom:
Then all those virgins arose and trimmed their lamps.
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.
7 Then all those virgins arose, and trimmed their lamps.