Pridie Roxy
Pridie Roxy's Notes
Pridie Roxy
wrote a note on John 10:27-28 ESV
Ellicott's commentary:"One member of each pair refers to the act or state of the sheep; and the other to the act or gift of the Shepherd. (1)"My sheep hear My voice," . . "and I know them;"(2)"And they follow Me" . . "and I give unto them eternal life;"(3)"And they shall never perish" . . . "neither shall any man pluck them out of My hand."By reading successively the clauses placed on the left side of the page, we trace the progress of the human act and state; by reading, in the same way, the clauses on the right side of the page, we trace the progress of the divine gift; by reading each pair in the order of the text, we see how at each stage the gift is proportioned to the faculty which can receive it." … Expand
Jun 15
Pridie Roxy
wrote a note on Luke 10:37 ESV
Pulpit commentary: "The spurious holiness is that of the priest and Levite, two officially holy persons; - spurious holiness is sanctity divorced from charity. In the person of the Samaritan the nature of true sanctity is exhibited; - we are taught that the way to please God, the way to genuine holiness, is the practice of charity.In the allegory, the wounded traveller represents mankind at large, stripped by the devil and his angels grievously wounded, yet not dead outright. Priest and Levite were alike powerless to help. Moses and his Law, Aaron and his sacrifices, patriarch, prophet, and priest, - these were powerless. Only the true Samaritan (Christ), beholding, was moved with compassion and poured oil into the wounds" … Expand
Jun 5
Pridie Roxy
wrote a note on John 10:16 ESV
Pulpit Comm: "The false English translation"fold," should be noticed. it conveys the idea of the rigid enclosure into which all the sheep should be gathered. It sustains the false pretension that outside the one "fold" of the Church the good Shepherd was not ready with his care and love. Christ carefully warned his disciples against such narrowness, and here he declares that the sheep, independently of the fold, may yet form one flock, under one Shepherd. Jesus described himself as the "Door of the sheep," and not the Door into the fold. He laid down his life to break down the partition between Jew and Gentile (Eph 2:13), God and man. There may be many folds. … Expand
May 28
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Pulpit Commentary: "The parable as it stands refers to true and false teachers of the people, and to just and unjust claims to confer upon the sheep of God's pasture safe and sure access to God, and all privileges of Divine life. In interpreting it, he declares first that he is the one Door, not of "the fold" so much as of the sheep, in their individual capacity. This corresponds with every claim made by him and made in his Name, that he, in all the fullness of his Personality, had always been the one Medium by which, in the theocracy or beyond it, men have drawn near to the Father." … Expand
May 27
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Pulpit Commentary: "To meet this crisis our Lord delivers a triad of related and parallel pictures, which differ from the ordinary parable. The parable is a picture which is complete in its elf, and invites the reader to discover some answering spiritual truth. It consists of a careful setting forth of some physical fact, some fragment of biography, some personal or domestic detail. It is true to life and experience, and embodies some ethical principle or religious emotion; and while it does not explicitly teach either, yet it suggests them to the inquiring mind." … Expand
May 26
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Pulpit Commentary: "The question before the crowd (asked so craftily) was, not whether Moses' Law was to stand or not, but whether these particular men, with their foul hearts and spurious zeal, were or were not at that particular moment to encounter the displeasure of Roman power by dashing the stones at the head of this poor trembling creature of sin and shame; whether they were morally competent to condemn to immediate death, and carry the verdict into execution. Before this tremendous summons from the Holy One, conscience could sleep no longer. The hypocrisy of the entire manoeuvre stared them in the face." … Expand
May 11
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Pulpit Commentary: "He rose, when the appearance of indifference could not be maintained, and at once arrested the outbreak of their unscrupulous fury without presuming to repudiate the letter of the Law. He lifted the discussion from the judicial to the moral sphere. He does not mean that none but the sinless can condemn, or pronounce verdict upon the guilty; but he calls for special freedom from similar offence on the part of any man who should wish or dare to display his own purity by taking part in the execution" … Expand
May 11
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Ellicott's commentary: "to have pronounced for a severe law against common forms of sin would have been to undermine popular support, and it is this only that the rulers had to fear. To have pronounced for capital punishment would moreover have brought Him into collision with the Roman government, which reserved to itself the power of life and death. Had He uttered a word in derogation of the majesty of the Roman empire, the charge of treason. But if He had taken the laxer view, then this, like the Sabbath question, would have been a charge of breaking the Law. He would have been brought before the Sanhedrin as a false Messiah, for the true Messiah was to establish the Law" … Expand
May 11
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Pulpit Commentary: "A profound and voluntary desire to do the will of God is the best preparation for intuitively perceiving the Divine authority of Christ and of his religion. The desire for holiness of principle and life sees in Christ not only the loftiest ideal of perfection, but the surest satisfaction to its conscious weakness, and casts itself upon his promises of saving power. The faith which is satisfied with Christ is not merely a conclusion drawn by logical processes from satisfactory premisses, it is the consequence of a new nature or a moral regeneration" … Expand
May 5
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Pulpit Commentary: "If the Divine will concerning conduct meets the spontaneous act of the human will, if a man's will is set to fulfil the Divine will, to will and do what is revealed to him by God, the eye of the soul will be opened to see other things as well, and especially will have power to discern the all-pervading Divine element in this teaching of mine" … Expand
May 5
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Samaria was built by Omri- capital of the kingdom of Israel (1Kings 16:23-24) untill its capture by Salmaneser, B.C. 721. After the deportation of the ten tribes, a mingled race was brought to occupy the district left depopulated. They became worshippers of Jehovah (2Kings 17:41), and on the return from the Captivity, Samaritans sought to share with the Jews in the work of rebuilding the Temple, and worship in its courts. That claim was refused, and in B.C. 409, guided by Manasseh, a priest (Nehemiah 13:28), obtained permission from the Persian king, Darius, to erect a temple on Mount Gerizim-》 antagonism. They refused all hospitality to pilgrims, profaned the Temple. the Jews looked on the Samaritans as worse than heathen. … Expand
May 1
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Pulpit Commentary: "No earthly society, however holy, would be able exclusively to claim the Divine powers inseparably connected with a true and faithful use of his Name"
May 1
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Pulpit Commentary: "if ye lose the true properties of salt; if your Christianity loses its heart, its quickening, stimulating influence; so that on account of the love of the world, or the fear of man, or through lust or ambition, you fall away from the heavenly doctrine and life; - who shall restore you to your former spiritual health and vigor? With what can salt itself be seasoned when its own chemical energies are lost?" … Expand
Apr 30
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Pulpit Commentary: "if ye lose the true properties of salt; if your Christianity loses its heart, its quickening, stimulating influence; so that on account of the love of the world, or the fear of man, or through lust or ambition, you fall away from the heavenly doctrine and life; - who shall restore you to your former spiritual health and vigor? With what can salt itself be seasoned when its own chemical energies are lost?" … Expand
Apr 30
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Pulpit Commentary:"The hand, or the foot, or the eye represents any instrument by which sin may be committed; and it applies to those who may be the means of drawing us into sin. If your relative or your friend, who is useful or dear to you as your hand, your foot, or your eye, is drawing you into sin, cut him off from you, lest he should draw you into hell, into the unquenchable Gehenna" … Expand
Apr 30
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Pulpit Commentary: "Dr. Morison on St. Mark in this place says, "When in applied morals we sit in judgment on ourselves, we should in ordinary circumstances apply the law obversely and stringently,' he who is not with Christ is against him.' But when we are sitting in judgment on others, into whose hearts we cannot look directly, we should in ordinary circumstances apply the law reversely and generously, ' He that is not against Christ is with him" … Expand
Apr 29
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Pulpit Commentary:"Here is a warning against that exclusive spirit, which is eager for its own ends rather than for Christ's glory, and would limit the exercise of his gifts and graces to its own system or school, instead of inquiring whether those whom it condemns are not working in Christ's name and for the promotion of his glory, although it may be allowable to think that in some instances they might find a more excellent way." … Expand
Apr 29
Pridie Roxy
wrote a note on Matthew 18:28 ESV
Ellicotts commentary: "Had our Lord been seeking simply a rhetorical antithesis between the infinitely great and the infinitely little, it would have been easy to select some small coin, as the amount of the fellow-servant's debt. But to the fishermen of Galilee the "hundred pence" would appear a really considerable sum, and when they came to interpret the parable they would thus be led to feel that it recognised that the offences which men commit against their brothers may, in themselves, be many and grievous enough. It is only when compared with their sins against God that they sink into absolute insignificance" … Expand
Apr 27
Pridie Roxy
wrote a note on Matthew 18:13 ESV
Pulpit commentary: "No one may safely go on sinning, or living in careless unconcern, with the expectation of being finally found and saved. There is a limit to the patience of the Lord. If a man will not open his heart to good inspirations and cooperate with preventing grace, he will not be found and brought home. God forces no one to be saved against his will" … Expand
Apr 23
Pridie Roxy
wrote a note on Matthew 18:8 ESV
Pulpit commentary: "The only remedy for this is the sternest self-denial, the strictest watchfulness. Literally, the hand or foot leads into sin, when it is directed to forbidden objects, moves towards the acquisition of things contrary to the Law of God. Metaphorically, the expression signifies all that is as dear and as necessary as these important members. Such occasions of sin we must at once and absolutely cast aside. It includes also persons as well as things. Friends the dearest must be parted from if their presence, or conversation, or habits cause evil thoughts or encourage evil acts. In the presence of such offences, ties the nearest must be snapped asunde" … Expand
Apr 22