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 # Mt 16:22
    \\Peter . . . began to rebuke him.\\ He could not bear the
 thought of the crucifixion, and still expected Christ to become
 a worldly king.
 (PNT 95)
00551
 # Mt 16:23
    \\Get thee behind me, Satan.\\ Christ saw in the words of
 Peter a suggestion not so much of his as of Satan's. It was a
 temptation to shrink from the work for which he came. It was the
 same temptation that called out from him the same rebuke once
 before.
 # 4:10
 (PNT 95)
00552
 # Mt 16:24
    \\If any [man] will come after me.\\ Compare
 # Mr 8:34-38 Lu 9:23-27
 The conditions of discipleship are presented.
    \\Let him deny himself.\\ Let him be prepared to say "no" to
 many of the strongest cravings of his nature, in the direction
 more particularly of earthly ease, comfort, dignity, and glory.
    \\Take up his cross.\\ Luke adds "daily"; not once, but all
 the time. The cross is the pain of the self-denial required in
 the preceding words. The cross is the symbol of doing our duty,
 even at the cost of the most painful death.
    \\And follow me.\\ To follow Christ is to take him for our
 master, our teacher, our example; to believe his doctrines, to
 uphold his cause, to obey his precepts, and to do it though it
 leads to heaven by way of the cross.
 (PNT 95)
00553
 # Mt 16:25
    \\Whoever will save his life shall lose it.\\ He who refuses
 to deny himself, and makes saving and ministering to his present
 life his chief object, shall lose his life eternally.
 (PNT 95)
00554
 # Mt 16:26
    \\What is a man profited?\\ etc. All the wealth, glory,
 pleasure and power of earth are worthless to the dying man. If
 he should gain them all and lose his own soul, he has lost all.
    \\What shall a man give in exchange for his soul?\\ What
 would a man not give? What is there that he can give, if in life
 he has not followed Christ?
 (PNT 95)
00555
 # Mt 16:27
    \\For the Son of man shall come.\\ Then all shall receive
 their deserts; those who lose their lives shall gain life; those
 who choose the world shall lose all. As Christ begins to teach
 of dying on the cross, he begins to give prominence to his
 coming again.
 (PNT 95)
00556
 # Mt 16:28
    \\Shall not taste death, till they see the Son of man.\\ The
 reference is not to his final coming to judge the world, but to
 his spiritual coming to establish his kingdom. This was
 fulfilled on the day of Pentecost.
    Mark shows the meaning by substituting, "Till they have seen
 the kingdom of God come with power."
 # Mr 9:1
 The "coming of the Son of man in his kingdom" means, therefore,
 the same as "the kingdom of God come with power." Compare
 # Ac 1:8 Lu 24:49
 The kingdom came with power on the day of Pentecost.
 # Ac 2:1
 (PNT 95)
00557
 # Mt 17:1
  SUMMARY OF MATTHEW 17
  \\The Transfiguration\\

  The Transfigured Lord
  Moses and Elias
  The Voice from the Cloud
  The Lunatic Healed
  The Son of Man to Be Betrayed
  Slain and Raised the Third Day
  The Tribute Money

    \\And after six days.\\ Compare
 # Mr 9:2-8 Lu 9:28-36 Joh 1:14 2Pe 1:18
 Six days after the conversation recorded in the last chapter.
 Luke says, "about an eight days." About, not exactly. Luke's
 eight days include the fractional days at the beginning and end
 of the day of the conversation and the day of transfiguration.
 Matthew's six days are the six complete days intervening between
 them.
    \\Jesus taketh Peter, James, and John.\\ The three apostles
 who were chosen to be nearest to the Lord.
    \\Upon an high mountain.\\ Not Mt. Tabor, for, as we learn
 from Josephus, who lived in that time, the top of Mt. Tabor was
 then occupied by a town and fortress. On the other hand, the
 Lord was in the vicinity of Mt. Hermon.
 See note on "Mt 16:13"
 Hermon was a "high mountain," ten thousand feet high, visible
 over most of Palestine.
 (PNT 96)
00558
 # Mt 17:2
    \\He was transfigured before them.\\ That is, transformed,
 changed in form. The great object was to reveal to the disciples
 his Divine glory before they beheld his humiliation upon the
 cross, in order to sustain their faith in the hour of trial.
    \\His face shone as the sun.\\ Thus John describes the
 glorified Saviour when he beheld him on Patmos: "His face as the
 sun when he shineth in his strength."
 # Re 1:16
    \\His raiment was white as the light.\\ Mark says, "white as
 snow."
 # Mr 9:3
 The comparison may have been suggested by the snow of Hermon. It
 was a vision of supernatural splendour.
 (PNT 96)
00559
 # Mt 17:3
    \\There appeared to them Moses and Elijah.\\
 (1) Among all the prophets and saints of the OT, these were the
     two, of which one had not died,
     # 2Ki 2:11
     and the other had no sooner tasted of death than his body
     was withdrawn from under the dominion of death and of him
     that had the power of death.
     # De 34:6 Jude 1:9
     Both, therefore, came from \\hades\\, but from \\hades\\
     conquered.
 (2) Again, these two were the acknowledged heads and
     representatives, the one of the law, the other of the
     prophets Compare
     # 7:12
    \\Talking with him.\\ The subject of their conversation is
 given in Luke.
 # Lu 9:31
 It was "the decease" (exodus, departure, referring to his death
 and ascension) "which he should accomplish at Jerusalem." In
 this brief interview between the greatest worthies of the old
 dispensation and the Founder of the new dispensation their
 conversation would be confined to the most important theme of
 earth and heaven. That was the Saviour's death.
 (PNT 96)
00560
 # Mt 17:4
    \\Answered Peter.\\ The words were spoken as they departed.
 # Lu 9:33
    \\Lord, it is good for us to be here.\\ It is too brief, too
 transient a glimpse and foretaste of the heavenly glory. He
 would fain detain these august visitors.
    \\Let us make here three tabernacles.\\ Three booths of
 boughs, like those of the Feast of the Tabernacles. It seemed to
 him that the hour for the long-looked-for reign had come.
 (PNT 96)
00561
 # Mt 17:5
    \\A bright cloud overshadowed them.\\ Christ, Moses and
 Elijah are represented as in the cloud which separated them from
 the disciples' sight; and out of this cloud the voice spoke to
 the disciples. By the disciples such a luminous cloud would be
 instantly accepted as a symbol of Divine presence. A bright
 cloud, the Shekinah, is throughout the OT dispensation employed
 as a symbol of God's presence, being very generally entitled
 "the glory," or "the glory of the Lord."
    \\This is my beloved Son.\\ The same voice which had once
 before been heard at the baptism. Such a confirmation of the
 great confession of Peter was never to be forgotten. Almost a
 generation later, when he wrote his second epistle, the
 remembrance of this night was as vivid as ever: "For he received
 from God the Father honour and glory, when there came such a
 voice to him from the excellent glory."
 # 2Pe 1:17
   \\Hear ye him.\\ The Divine voice that spoke at Sinai and the
 baptism is heard, declaring Christ's superiority to Moses and
 Elijah, in that he is "the beloved Son," and commanding all to
 "Hear Him." Henceforth, not Moses, or Elijah, are the lawgivers
 of the people of God, but Christ. The saints are bidden to turn
 from every human teacher, even those as revered as Moses and
 Elijah, to listen to our Lord. To "hear Him" will lead from
 error and sin into truth, righteousness and fitness for heaven.
 (PNT 96-97)
00562
 # Mt 17:6
    \\They . . . were very much afraid.\\ Like the children of
 Israel at Sinai, they were filled with awe at the Divine voice.
 (PNT 97)
00563
 # Mt 17:7
    \\Arise, and be not afraid.\\ So the Lord ever speaks to his
 disciples in danger or fear.
 (PNT 97)
00564
 # Mt 17:8
    \\They saw no man, except Jesus only.\\ When they rose from
 their prostration the glorious vision was gone.
 (PNT 97)
00565
 # Mt 17:9
    \\Jesus charged them, saying, Tell the vision to no man.\\
 Even they themselves did not yet understand what they had seen.
 Still less could they, in present circumstances, make others
 understand. All was plainer after Christ had died, risen, and
 had ascended to glory. The time had not come to proclaim the
 mystery of the Sonship of the world.
 (PNT 97)
00566
 # Mt 17:10
    \\Why then say the scribes that Elijah must first come?\\
 They knew that the scribes, in their capacity as interpreters of
 prophecy, were wont to say that Elijah must come before the
 Messiah could appear. They said this on the strength of
 # Mal 3:1 4:5
 If Peter, James and John were of those who asked this question,
 they were probably seeking to ascertain if the vision they had
 seen was the coming of Elijah and why he did not remain.
 (PNT 97)
00568
 # Mt 17:12
    \\Elijah is come already.\\ John the Baptist, who came in the
 spirit and power of Elijah.
 # Mr 9:2-8 Lu 1:17
    \\Have done to him whatever they desired.\\ The account of
 his martyrdom is given in Matthew and Mark.
 See note on "Mt 14:6"
 See note on "Mt 14:7"
 See note on "Mt 14:8"
 See note on "Mt 14:9"
 See note on "Mt 14:10"
 See note on "Mt 14:11"
 See note on "Mt 14:12"
 See note on "Mr 6:21"
 See note on "Mr 6:27"
    \\The Son of man suffer by them.\\ Henceforth he keeps the
 lesson of his suffering constantly before their minds. After
 all, his disciples were not prepared for it when the hour came.
 (PNT 97)
00570
 # Mt 17:14
    \\When they had come to the multitude.\\ Come down out of the
 mountain. Compare
 # Mr 9:14-29 Lu 9:37-42
 Luke says this miracle occurred the next day.
 (PNT 98)
00571
 # Mt 17:15
    \\My son; for he is lunatic.\\ "Epileptic" (ASV). The
 symptoms are those of epilepsy, in this case caused by demoniac
 possession. The son was a child.
 # Lu 9:38
 He was dumb as well as epileptic.
 # Mr 9:18
 (PNT 98)
00572
 # Mt 17:16
    \\Thy disciples.\\ The nine apostles who had been left below
 when the Lord with three ascended the mountain.
 (PNT 98)
00573
 # Mt 17:17
    \\O faithless and perverse generation.\\ Intended especially
 for the disciples who had failed in the cure from weakness of
 faith.
    \\How long shall I bear with you?\\ Bear with your
 shortcomings.
    \\Bring him here to me.\\ The emphasis is upon "me." This act
 of mercy could have been done by his disciples had they been
 devout, prayerful and believing.
 (PNT 98)
00574
 # Mt 17:18
    \\The demon . . . departed out of him.\\ Compare
 # Mr 9:26 Lu 9:42
 (PNT 98)
00575
 # Mt 17:19
    \\Why could not we cast him out?\\ The answer is, Lack of
 faith.
 (PNT 98)
00576
 # Mt 17:20
    \\This mountain.\\ Lofty Hermon, in plain sight.
    \\Nothing shall be impossible to you.\\ Upon the condition of
 perfect faith. Compare
 # Heb 11:1-40
 Faith in Christ, faith exercised in fasting and prayer, are the
 conditions of power.
 (PNT 98)
00577
 # Mt 17:21
    \\This kind goeth not out except by prayer and fasting.\\
 Compare
 # Mr 9:29
 Only by devout waiting before the Lord for strength. Such
 strength is always needful to the victories of faith. Often,
 too, we have demons, envy, pride, covetousness, a revengeful
 spirit, that must be cast out by prayer.
 (PNT 98)
00578
 # Mt 17:22
    \\While they abode in Galilee.\\ Mark says: "They departed
 from there [from the vicinity of Mt. Hermon], and passed through
 Galilee."
 # Mr 9:30
 Compare also,
 # Lu 9:43-45
 (PNT 98)
00579
 # Mt 17:23
    \\They were exceedingly grieved.\\ Because he said that he
 must be put to death. There is only grief now, but no
 remonstrance.
 (PNT 98)
00580
 # Mt 17:24
    \\When they had come to Capernaum.\\ They had now returned
 from the journey north.
    \\Doth not your master pay tribute?\\ Not tribute, which
 would be a tax due an alien, but the half shekel, an annual tax
 demanded of every male Jew above twenty years for the support of
 the temple. It would be from twenty-five to thirty-five cents,
 as the shekel is variously estimated from fifty to seventy
 cents. The collectors were not publicans, but Jewish
 authorities.
 (PNT 99)
00581
 # Mt 17:25
    \\He saith, Yes.\\ Peter, as usual, answered before he
 reflected, and then came to Jesus with the matter.
    \\Jesus spoke first.\\ Peter came into the house to speak
 about it, but Christ knew his thoughts and spoke first.
    \\From whom do the kings of the earth take custom?\\ Not of
 their own children, but from subjects. Hence, Christ, the King's
 Son, for whom the temple was built, was not subject to tax for
 the benefit of the temple. The Son of the King would not pay
 tribute to the King.
    For the origin of this temple tax, see
 # Ex 30:12 2Ch 24:5
 (PNT 99)
00583
 # Mt 17:27
    \\Lest we should offend them.\\ While not compelled to pay it
 as a due, he would pay it as a matter of expediency. Sometimes
 things are expedient for which there is not the letter of the
 law.
    \\Go thou to the sea.\\ Of Galilee, close at hand.
    \\Cast an hook.\\ Peter was a fisherman.
    \\Take the fish that first cometh up.\\ A miracle. The Lord
 by his power would draw the fish that had sought to swallow the
 coin to Peter's hook.
    \\A piece of money.\\ Greek, a stater, corresponding to a
 shekel, enough for two. The Lord would pay the tax, but in a
 manner in accord with the Divine dignity.
 (PNT 99)
00584
 # Mt 18:1
  SUMMARY OF MATTHEW 18
  \\The Greatest in the Kingdom\\

  Who Shall Be Greatest?
  Becoming As Little Children
  Causing the Little Ones to Stumble
  Despising the Little Ones
  How to Deal with an Offending Brother
  Forgiving Those Who Injure Us
  Parable of the Unmerciful Servant

    \\At the same time.\\ As Peter returned from paying the
 tribute money.
    \\Came the disciples to Jesus.\\ Compare
 # Mr 9:33-50 Lu 9:46-50 Mt 19:13-15
 Mark says the conversation occurred at Capernaum.
    \\Who is the greatest in the kingdom?\\ The disciples had
 disputed in the way was to which of them should be chief
 ministers in the earthly kingdom that they still supposed Christ
 would establish.
 # Mr 9:33-34
 Mark also says that before calling the child, Jesus said: "He
 that would be greatest among you, let him become the servant of
 all," the rule of true greatness.
 # Mr 9:35
 (PNT 99)
00585
 # Mt 18:2
    \\And Jesus called a little child to him.\\ In order to
 enforce the words that Mark reports, he uses a striking object
 lesson.
 # Mr 9:35
 This method was a prominent feature of Oriental teaching. Thus
 it was that Christ washed the disciples' feet
 # Joh 13:4-17
 and Agabus bound his hands and feet with Paul's girdle.
 # Ac 21:11
 (PNT 99-100)
00586
 # Mt 18:3
    \\Except ye be converted.\\ "Except ye turn" (ASV), which is
 correct. The Greek word [\\strepho\\] translated in the KJV "be
 converted" is found in the NT in the active voice in every
 instance but one, and means "to turn." It means something that
 the subject is to do, not something that is to be done for him.
    \\Become as little children.\\ Humble, teachable and free
 from selfish ambition, like little children.
    \\Shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven.\\  Any who could not
 become like children might not get in at all.
 (PNT 100 edited)
00587
 # Mt 18:4
    \\Whoever therefore shall humble himself as this little
 \\child.\\ This explains the great feature in which they must
 become as the child. Greatness in the kingdom is not secured by
 seeking to be greatest. There is a lesson here for Christians,
 and especially preachers who are ambitious of distinction.
 (PNT 100)
00588
 # Mt 18:5
    \\Whoever shall receive one such little child in my name.\\
 "Receiving in my name" is serving with Christian love, and as
 belonging to Christ.
    \\Receiveth me.\\ Observe that the true way to receive Christ
 is to receive into our heart, for Christ's sake, those who need
 our sympathies.
 (PNT 100)
00589
 # Mt 18:6
    \\Whoever shall cause one of these little ones . . . to
 \\sin.\\ The ASV makes this plainer by rendering it "cause to
 stumble," or to go astray.
    \\Little ones\\ not only embraces children who have learned
 to believe in Christ, but all lowly and humble disciples.
    \\Better for him that a millstone were hung about his neck.\\
 Better that a man should lose his life in so terrible a way than
 to destroy the souls of others.
    \\Drowned in the depth of the sea.\\ Which was within sight.
 This method of capital punishment was practised by the
 Egyptians, Greeks, and Romans, and perhaps occasionally by the
 Jews.
 (PNT 100 edited)
00590
 # Mt 18:7
    \\Woe unto the world because of offences!\\ There will
 continue to be temptations and causes of stumbling in the world
 which will lead thousands astray and cause much sorrow.
 (PNT 100)
00591
 # Mt 18:8
    \\If thy hand or thy foot causeth thee to sin.\\ Cause you to
 sin or stumble; ensnare you into evil. The meaning is, if an
 object dear as the right eye, and useful as the right hand, lead
 you into sin, that object however dear, you are to part with.
 See
 # 5:29
    \\Into life lame or maimed.\\ The meaning is not that a man
 hath no better way to avoid sin and hell, but if he had no
 better, he should choose this.
 (PNT 100-101)
00592
 # Mt 18:9
    \\Into hell fire.\\ "Into the Gehenna of fire." This phrase,
 in v. 9, is synonymous with "everlasting fire," in v. 8. For Gehenna,
 see note on "Mt 5:22"
 (PNT 100-101)
00593
 # Mt 18:10
    \\Despise not one of these little ones.\\ Not merely one of
 the children, but those saints whom the world regards as
 insignificant and unimportant. "To despise" is, literally, "to
 look down upon," and hence, to neglect. This forbids all caste
 in the church.
    \\In heaven their angels do always behold the face of my
 \\Father.\\ The doctrine of guardian angels is emphatically
 taught in the Scriptures. See
 # 1Ki 19:5-8 Ps 91:11 Heb 1:13 Ac 27:23
 Who can afford to despise the children who have representatives
 right at the throne of God?
 (PNT 101)
00594
 # Mt 18:11
    This verse does not occur in the ASV, and is not found in the
 most reliable Greek manuscripts, such as the Siniatic and
 Vatican.
 (PNT 101)
00595
 # Mt 18:12-13
    \\How think ye?\\ This illustration of the anxiety of the
 shepherd for lost sheep is used to show the deep interest that
 God feels in any one of the straying "little ones."
    \\If a man hath an hundred sheep.\\ The man having a hundred
 sheep is plainly the Son of God--the Good Shepherd.
 (PNT 101)
00597
 # Mt 18:14
    \\Even so it is not the will of your Father,\\ etc. As the
 shepherd feels a deep and anxious interest in the straying
 sheep, and seeks to hunt and to save it, so the Father above
 seeks the salvation of all the humble ones in his kingdom.
 (PNT 101)
00598
 # Mt 18:15
    \\If thy brother.\\ Brother in the church. Compare
 # Mr 9:38 Lu 9:49
    \\Trespass against thee.\\ Personally. Injure you or do you
 wrong.
    \\Tell him his fault.\\ Go to him privately and have a kind,
 brotherly talk over the matter, and try to show him his fault.
    \\Gained thy brother.\\ For thyself, by restoring good
 feeling; for God, by leading him to a sense of sin and
 repentance.
 (PNT 101)
00599
 # Mt 18:16
    \\Take with thee one or two more.\\ If the private interview
 is of no avail, take other brethren as witnesses and
 intercessors. These witnesses, hearing the matter talked over,
 can report the facts.
 (PNT 101)