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the world (Rom. COMMENTS FROM 11:28) but in a MANY SOURCES. special sense ior Keith I Brooks. Israel (Jn. 11: 51). What joy He will have when He takes this treasure to Himself (Deut. 30:9; Is. 49:13; 62: 4-7) .-—Gray. A sinner has nothing to sell, nor is Christ for sale, nor is He hidden in a field, nor, having found - Christ, does the sinner hide Him again. —Scofield. Whoever the buyer is, he buys not the treasure only but the whole field. What sinner, were it pos sible for him to purchase, could buy more than his own personal salvation? --Needham. He hideth it. The refer ence to the hiding of the treasure is ex plained by the fact that the nation Israel was to be (and has been) hidden, so to speak, throughout this age, hav ing no place among the nations of the *’earth, -but God knows where to find them.—Mauro. v. 45, Goodly pearls. The priceless value of the pearl when exhibited would be acknowledged by all, and it seems to look onward to the time when He shall come to be admired in all them that believe and when the gem He .has won (the true church) from the ocean of the world, shall be the center of the universe.—-Habershon. The pearl. re fers probably to the church just as the rich treasure refers to Israel. To what depths Jesus descended to purchase it! (Eph. 5:25-27; Rom. 10:7-10.)—Ev ans. v. 46. Sold all. Is there not a deep sense in which Jesus has renounced all that He might purchase for Himself the church, His bride? He is the merchant and we the pearl though only in His eyes, the eyes of love, could we be held worthy of all that He surrendered to win us.— Meyer. There are two statements of Paul which agree so closely with the statement of the parable as to exhibit a clearly designed correspondence. To the elders at Ephesus Paul spoke of the church of God which He had purchased with His own blood (Acts 20:28) and in writing to the Ephesians He said, “Christ loved the church and gave Him self (all that He had) for it.” (Eph. 5: 25).—Mauro. v. 48. Good and bad. The kingdom of heaven is like a net which cast into the sea of humanity gathers of every kind, good and bad. These remain to gether in the sea until the end of the age. It is not even a converted net, much less a converted sea.—Scofield.
The teaching of this parable partly coin cides with that of the tares (v. 24-30). In both are exhibited a measure of good and evil in the visible church and the final separation of them, but here the thought is specially directed to the in gathering of the church.—Carr. v. 49. Sever wicked from among the just. Christendom will consist of a mixed society until the end of the age. —-Evans. Christ dobs not hide the fact of a mixture. Christ never hides ugly facts.—Parker. So shall it be. ‘So shall it be at the full end of the age. The parable points to some event that will take place during the last days of this age.—Young. During the consum mation of the age there shall be great tribulation (Matt. 24:2i, 29, 30). Again in Rev. 7:9-17, speaking of the great tribulation, we are given a view of an innumerable company gathered out of all nations. God will during these times cast a net into the raging sea of the na tions and will draw it to the shore full. —Mauro. v. 50. Furnace of fire. Everlasting misery will certainly be the portion or those who live among sanctified ones but themselves die unsanctified. Christ often preached of hell torments as the everlasting punishment of hypocrites. It is good for us to be often reminded of this awakening, quickening truth.-— Henry. Weeping and gnashing of teeth. By their weeping is set forth their overwhelming sorrow, by their gnashing of teeth, their impotent rage.—Torrey. The bad do not succeed in hiding them selves. We may be in the visible church and not in the invisible, but observe it was the angels that had to perform the work of discrimination and separation, not the fellow members of the church. It was not the good fish that expelled the bad.—People’s Bible. V. 52. Instructed unto the kingdom. The one who is really instructed in the kingdom will prove it by imparting the treasure to others also.—Torrey. Things new and old. Just as the householder brings from his stores precious things which have been heirlooms for genera tions as well as- newly acquired treas ures, the disciples following their Mas ter’s example, will exhibit the true teaching of the old law and add thereto the new lessons of Christianity.-—Ibid. As things new are in reality old, so things old, the things of the spirit, never become obsolete. They take new life and are seen in new developments.—. Aniger.
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