Matthew 25:37-38 37 Then shall the righteous answer him, saying, Lord, when saw we thee an hungred, and fed thee? or thirsty, and gave thee drink? 38 When saw we thee a stranger, and took thee in? or naked, and clothed thee? “Lord, when saw we thee an hungered”... This barbarous expression, an hungered, should be banished out of the text, where ever it occurs, and the simple word hungry substituted for it. Whatever is done for Christs sake is done through Christs grace and he who does the work attributes to Jesus both the will and the power by which the work was done. And seeks and expects the kingdom of heaven not as a reward, but as a gift of pure unmerited mercy. Yet, while workers together with his grace, God attributes to them that which they do through his influence, as if they had done it independently of him. God has a right to form what estimate he pleases of the works wrought through himself: but man is never safe except when he attributes all to his Maker. When saw we thee a stranger, and took thee in?” As they had never seen Him hungry and thirsty, in His own person, though He was both in the days of His flesh, and were ministered to, both by angels, and by good women out of their substance. They had never seen Him a stranger, and took Him into their houses yet they had, seen Him hungry and thirsty, and as a stranger in his members, and had done these good deeds to Him in them, and to them for His sake. “Or naked, and clothed thee?” For so Christ in person never was, until stripped of his raiment by the soldiers, and officers; but they had seen many of His poor saints without clothing, and had covered their nakedness.
Posted on: Wed, 01 Oct 2014 00:37:59 +0000
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