T HE K I N G ’S B U S I N E S S sense of the word.—Sel. Fear not. The true deliverer from superstitious terrors is the risen Christ.—Maclaren. Unto the women. The false message which brought sin into the world was given first to woman and by her was communicated to man. The resurrec tion of the Lord was communicated in the same way.—Arnot. v. 6. He is risen. Never did celes tial messenger bring more joyful nhws than fell from the lips of the angel that morning.—Hurlburt. That empty tomb means the conquest of death and sin and so becomes the symbol of a thor oughfare between life in time and life in the unshadowed presence of God.— Jowett. The strongest of all evidence of the resurrection is the very existence of the church itself. The disappointed, timid and disheartened disciples were not material out of which to build a growing church.—Welch. As He said. That is true faith which sees in the darkness as well as in the light, which goes to the grave bearing no spices but the spices of the immovable certainty of His Word.—Parker. Come see the place. Is not this vacant tomb an al most satirical evidence of His triumph over His enemies and ours? Come see' the place that you may behold in it the certain and glqrious pledge of a per fected salvation.:—Mursell. v. 7. Tell the disciples. The dis ciples were transformed from broken hearted, helpless 'men into confident flaming evangelists whose faith and zeal never afterward left them. Could anything but a genuine resurrection have accomplished this?—Peloubet. Goeth into Galilee. Why this appoint ment in Galilee? Why make that dis tant place the scene of the main evi dence of the resurrection? His resur rection was thus separated from all those superstitions known as ghosts. Furthermore Christ saw fit to give them their great commission on the scene o- their common labors.—Munger. v. 8. They did ran. There is great need today that men and women run with the glad tidings of a risen Christ. —Torrey. v. 9. Jesus met them. , Those who obey the directions of God’s servants and use prescribed means that they may meet with Christ, shall find Him ere they be aware.—-Dickson. v. 10. Go tell. The sight of the risen Christ gives us something to say. —Sel. My brethren. For the first time does He use that word in such a connection, showing that until His
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death and resurrection on their behalf, cue reiauonsmp nad not been possible (Heb. 2:i0-i2 ) .—uray. v. 17. Some doubted. The same word is used of Peter's doubt in 14:31 and these passages only m the New Testament. ’There too the doubt is fol lowed by adoration (v. 33).—Camb. Bible. John 21:4 throws some light upon it. There was something myster ious and supernatural in the manifes tation of the glorified body—outlines at first indistinct and scarcely recog nized and then the whole form seen as it had been seen in life. The. more de voted disciples were probably here as before, the first to recognize their Lord.—Plumptre. v. T8. All power. Think how far the claim has been verified. See what He has accomplished in the world—the great institutions| that have had their beginning in the love of Him, the stim ulus given to human thinking, the great inventions which have been subordin ated to the spread of His truth, the present power of Christianity.;—Tertius. v. 19. Go ye therefore. Chi ist not diffused is Christ misused. This is the Gospel in shoe leather.—Sunday. If our religion is false we are bound to change it, but if it is true we are bound to propagate it. Christianity is true. Therefore it is a missionary religion.— Farr. “Go ye” (that is, the Jews, to whom He was speaking) “and teach all nations” (the Gentilés), “teaching them” (the Gentiles as well as the Jews) “to observe all things” (not merely a portion of His teachings) “whatsoever I have commanded you” (the Jews). ' There is no hook or crook by which the church can escape the teachings of the sermon on the mount or any of Christ’s other teachings by loading them upon the Jews or upon some’ future dispensation. This is the age ;of Gospel evangelization and the “all things” are to be taught to “all nations.”—Sel. In the name. The three have one name. No being how ever glorious, not being God, could be included in one name. The order is equally clear—first, He from whom all proceeded; second, He through whom all proceedeth; third, He by whom all proceedeth. v. 20. Observe all things. Our Lord’s precepts in the sermon on the mount and through the whole course of His ministry, were not simply to be admired but to be kept.— Horn. Com. Lo, I am with you. If He is, then we have all things. We can
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