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John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
But the wise answered, saying, not so,.... A flat denial; and which sprung not from want or compassion; for the saints are taught not only to compassionate one another, and to pity fallen professors, but even to regard their very enemies in distress: nor from a narrow, niggardly spirit, since such are directed and exhorted to communicate freely,...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
But the wise answered, saying, Not so; test there be not enough for us and you: but go ye rather to them that sell, and buy for yourselves. And while they went to buy, the bridegroom came; — There are death-bed repentances, undoubtedly; but I fear that, in the great majority of cases, people who wake up so late will find that, while they go to...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
But the wise answered, saying, Not so; lest there be not enough for us and you: but go ye rather to them that sell, and buy for yourselves. It is no easy matter to go and rouse up the seller of oil when the midnight hour has struck. O you who are putting off repentance to a dying bed, you are foolish virgins indeed! Your folly has reached the...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
And while they went to buy,.... The foolish virgins so far took the advice of the wise, as to go forth to buy oil for themselves: they not only had some thoughts about it, and resolutions to do it, but they really did go out to buy; which may design their attendance on the word and ordinances, where they stopped: they did not go to Christ for...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And they that were ready went in with him to the marriage; and the door was shut. Afterward came also the other margins, saying, Lord, Lord, open to us. “Open the door at least to us, for we came to meet thee, and we carried lamps, and we were with the other virgins: ‘Lord, Lord, open to us.’” You know, perhaps, those striking lines which describe...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And while they went to buy, the bridegroom came; — While they were going.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And they that were ready went in with him to the marriage: and the door was shut. Afterward came also the other virgins, saying, Lord, Lord, open to us. Too late, so that they could not enter.
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
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, they were foolish ones; they were other than those that were ready, they were unprepared ones; and in another situation than those that entered in; they...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
But he answered and said,.... The Lord and bridegroom from within, thought fit to give them an answer, but an unexpected and awful one to them: verily I say unto you, I know you not; which must be understood in consistence with the omniscience of Christ: he knew their persons, conduct, and state; he knew they were foolish virgins, graceless...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
But he answered and said, Verily I say unto you, I know you not. When that door is once shut, it will never again be opened; all Scripture goes to prove that. There are some who foolishly dream about an opening of that door, after death, for men who have died impenitent; but there is nothing in Scripture to warrant us in having any such...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
But he answered and said, Verily I say unto you, I know you not. “I never knew you,” says Christ in another place; and this knowledge of his is always bound up with affection. He loves no heart that he knows not in this sense. Those whom he knows, he loves. Will he ever say to me or to you, dear friend, “I know you not”? God grant that he never...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Watch therefore,.... In ordinances, in prayer, public and private, in hearing the word, at the Lord's supper, and in every religious exercise; over the heart, the thoughts and affections of it; over words, actions, life, and conversation; and against all sin and unbelief, Satan's temptations, the world, and its charms and snares, false teachers,...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Watch therefore, for ye know neither the day nor the hour wherein the Son of man cometh. That is, we do not know when it will be. Some have foolishly said, “We do not know the day, or the hour, of Christ’s coming, but we may find out the year.” We shall not do anything of the kind; the time is hidden altogether, it is not revealed to us, and it...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Watch therefore, for ye know neither the day nor the hour wherein the Son of man cometh.
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
For [the kingdom of heaven] is as a man travelling,.... Our Lord adds another parable to illustrate the Gospel dispensation, or its visible church state; or the state of things respecting the church of Christ, before, and at his second coming, and during the interval between his ascension and that: for by the man here, is meant Christ, who in the...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For the kingdom of heaven is as a man traveling into a far country, who called his own servants, and delivered unto them his goods. This parable has to do with you who are professors of Christianity. He “called his own servants,” those who, by their own consent, were numbered amongst his household servitors: “He called his own servants, and...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
And unto one he gave five talents,.... A "talent" with the Jews, if of silver, was, according to Brerewood (w), of the value of 375 l. of our money; according to Bishop Cumberland, 353 l. 11 s. 10 1/2 d.; and if of gold, was equal to 4500l. and, according to the latter, 5075 l. 15 s. 7 1/2 d.: so that five of these talents, if of silver, were 1875...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And unto one he gave five talents, to another two, and to another one; to every man according to his several ability; and straightway took his journey. He is gone; our Lord has risen; and we, his servants, are left behind to trade with his goods for his glory.
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Then he that had received the five talents,.... The largest measure of gifts; an account is first given of him, how he behaved, and conducted in his Lord's absence, and what use he made of the gifts bestowed upon him: this must be understood, not of a single man, but of that sort of the servants of Christ, who have the greatest ministerial gifts:...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Then he that had received the five talents went and traded with the same, and made them other five talents. And likewise he that had received two, he also gained other two. But he that had receded one went and digged in the earth, and hid his lord’s money. We are grieved to know that there are persons with five talents, and others with two...