Gen 39:2, 23, 1Sa 3:19, 10:7, 18:12-14, Mat 1:23, 28:20 | TSK | STEP

16; Nu 27:16,17; 2Sa 5:2; Ps 121:8Saul was sensible that the Lord was departed from him; while he perceived, with evident sorrow of heart, that the Lord had given David peculiar wisdom, and that he was with him to prosper all his undertakings. This increased the disquietude of his malevolent mind, and his dread of David as a prevailing rival: he therefore removed him from his presence. This impolitic step, however, served the more to ingratiate David with the people, by affording him the opportunity of leading them forth to victory over their enemies.

behaved. or, prospered.

the Lord.

10:7; 16:18; Ge 39:2,3,23; Jos 6:27; Mt 1:23; 28:20; Ac 18:10

Matthew 1:23

a virgin.

Isa 7:14

they shall call his name. or, his name shall be called.Emmanuel

Isa 7:14; 8:8

Immanuel. God.

28:20; Ps 46:7,11; Isa 8:8-10; 9:6,7; 12:2; Joh 1:14; Ac 18:9

Ro 1:3,4; 9:5; 2Co 5:19; 1Ti 3:16; 2Ti 4:17,22

Matthew 28:20

them.

7:24-27; De 5:32; 12:32; Ac 2:42; 20:20,21,27; 1Co 11:2,23; 14:37

Eph 4:11-17,20-32

Col 1:28; 1Th 4:1,2; 2Th 3:6-12; 1Ti 6:1-4; Tit 2:1-10; 1Pe 2:10-19

2Pe 1:5-11; 3:2; 1Jo 2:3,4; 3:19-24; Re 22:14

I am.

1:23; 18:20; Ge 39:2,3,21; Ex 3:12; Jos 1:5; Ps 46:7,11; Isa 8:8-10

Isa 41:10; Mr 16:20; Joh 14:18-23; Ac 18:9,10; 2Ti 4:17; Re 22:21

unto.

13:39,40,49; 24:3

Amen.

6:13; 1Ki 1:36; 1Ch 16:36; Ps 72:19; Re 1:18; 22:20 CONCLUDING REMARKS ON MATTHEW'S GOSPEL. Matthew being one of the twelve apostles, and early called to the apostleship, and from the time of his call a constant attendant on our Saviour, was perfectly well qualified to write fully the history of his life. He relates what he saw and heard. "He is eminently distinguished for the distinctness and particularity with which he has related many of our Lord's discourses and moral instructions. Of these his sermon on the mount, his charge to the apostles, his illustrations of the nature of his kingdom, and his prophecy on mount Olivet, are examples. He has also wonderfully united simplicity and energy in relating the replies of his Master to the cavils of his adversaries." "There is not," as Dr. A. Clarke justly remarks, "one truth or doctrine, in the whole oracles of God, which is not taught in this Evangelist. The outlines of the whole spiritual system are here correctly laid down: even Paul himself has added nothing: he has amplified and illustrated the truths contained in this Gospel;--under the inspiration of the Holy Ghost, neither he, nor any of the other apostles, have brought to light one truth, the prototype of which has not been found in the words and acts of our blessed Lord as related by Matthew."