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Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Here is the gracious invitation of the gospel in which the Saviour’s tears and smiles were blended, as in a covenant rainbow of promise. “Come:” he drives none away: he calls them to himself. His favourite word is, “Come.” Not-go to Moses; but, “Come unto me.” To Jesus...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Take my yoke upon you,.... The phrase is Rabbinical. The Jewish doctors often speak (a) of עול מלכות שמים, "the yoke of the kingdom of heaven", and of persons taking it upon them; and which they exhort to, and express in much such language as here (b); קדישא קבילו עלייכו עול מלכותא, "take upon you the yoke of the holy kingdom", every day. They...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me: for I am meek and lowly in heart; and ye shall find rest unto your souls. First; he gives rest to all that come, But afterwards there is a second rest which they find who become obedient and bear his yoke. The rest that comes of pardoned sin is sweet, but the rest that comes of conquered sin through...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls. For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light. “Take my yoke and learn:” this is the second instruction; it brings with it a further rest which we “find.” The first rest he gives through his death; the second we find in copying his life....
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light. Christ calls a profession of faith in him, and subjection to his ordinances, a yoke, in allusion to the law of Moses, and in distinction from it; and a "burden", with respect to the very heavy ones the Scribes and Pharisees laid upon the shoulders of the people, obliging them to a strict observance of...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light. Blessed be his name, we have found it so.