Lectures on the Gospel of Matthew: USED COPY [Hardback]

Lectures on the Gospel of Matthew: USED COPY by William Kelly

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William Kelly

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568 pages

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Not only is this book an excellent exposition of Matthew, but it also provides help in understanding the gospels and the rest of the New Testament.

Excerpt- I HAVE thought it might be profitable to take up one of the gospels, and to trace, as simply as the Lord enables me, the general outline of the truth revealed there. It is my desire to point out the special object and design of the Holy Ghost, so as to furnish those who value God's word, with such hints as may tend to meet some of the difficulties that arise in the minds of many; and also to put in a clearer light great truths that are apt to be passed lightly over. Here I may assume, that the Spirit of God has not given us these accounts of our Lord liable to the mistakes of men, but that He has, on the contrary, kept an unerring hand over those who in themselves were men of like passions with us. In a word, the Holy Ghost has inspired these accounts, in order that we might have full certainty that He is their author, and that thus they are stamped with His own perfection. As He has been pleased to give us various accounts, so He has had a divine reason for each of them. In short, God has sought. His own glory in this, and has secured it.

Now, there can be no question to any one who reads the Gospels with the smallest discernment, that the first is most remarkably adapted to meet the need of Jews; and that it brings out the Old Testament. Scriptures and prophecies, which found their realization in Jesus. Consequently, there are more citations of scripture, as applying to our Lord's life and death, in this gospel, than in all the others put together. All this was not a thing left to Matthew's discretion. That the Holy Ghost used the mind of many in carrying out his own design is clear; but that He was pleased perfectly to guard and guide him in what he was to give out, is what mean in saying that God inspired Matthew for the purpose.

Besides presenting our Lord in such a way as best to meet the right or wrong thoughts and feelings of a Jew; Besides furnishing the proofs more particularly wanted to satisfy his mind, it is evident from the character of the discourses and parables, that the rejection of the Messiah by Israel, and the consequences of it to the Gentiles, are here the great prominent thoughts in the mind of the Holy Ghost. Hence there is no ascension scene in Matthew. The Jew, if he had understood the Old Testament prophecies, would have looked for a Messiah to come, suffer, die, and be raised again “according to the Scriptures.” In Matthew we have His death and resurrection, but there He is left; and we should not know, from the facts related by Him only, that Christ went up to heaven at all. We should know it was implied in some of the words that Christ spoke; but, in point of fact, Matthew leaves us with Christ Himself still upon the earth. The last chapter describes not the ascension of Christ, nor His session at God's right hand, but His speaking to the disciples here below. Such a presentation of Christ was peculiarly that which the Jews needed to know. It was more suitable to them than to any other people on the earth. And who was the agent employed? One of the twelve who companied with our Lord from the beginning of His ministry till He was taken up from them. So far, of course, he was an evidently competent witness for the Jew, and far more suitable than Mark or Luke would have been, who were not, as far as we know, personal companions of the Lord. But there was this peculiarity—that Matthew was a publican, or tax gatherer, by profession. Although a Jew, he was in the employment of the Gentiles, which position would make him specially odious to his countrymen. They would look upon him with more suspicion even than upon a stranger. This might make it appear, at first sight, the more extraordinary that the Holy Ghost should employ such all one to give the account of Jesus as the Messiah. But let us remember that there is another object all through the gospel of Matthew; that it is not only the record of Jesus as the true Messiah to Israel, but that it shows us His rejection by Israel, and the consequences of their fatal unbelief:—all the barriers which had hitherto existed between Jew and Gentile thrown down—the mercy of God flowing out towards those who were despised, and blessing the Gentile as readily and as fully as the Jew. Thus the admirable propriety of employing Matthew, the publican, and its consistency with the scope of his task, are apparent.

Table of Contents

1. Matthew 1, Remarks on

2. Matthew 2, Remarks on

3. Matthew 3, Remarks on

4. Matthew 4:1-11, Remarks on

5. Matthew 4:12-25, Remarks on

6. Matthew 5:1-17, Remarks on

7. Matthew 5:17-48, Remarks on

8. Matthew 6, Remarks on

9. Matthew 7, Remarks on

10. Matthew 8, Remarks on

11. Matthew 9, Remarks on