Mar 10:17-22 | Abbott | STEP | Running—kneeled—Good Master. There was apparently an extravagance in the air and manner of this young man, which the Savior's language was intended gently to reprove in . There would seem to be no impropriety in the words themselves, Good Master, as a mode of accosting the Savior, under any view of his character.

Mark 10:17-22

Running—kneeled—Good Master. There was apparently an extravagance in the air and manner of this young man, which the Savior's language was intended gently to reprove in v. 18. There would seem to be no impropriety in the words themselves, Good Master, as a mode of accosting the Savior, under any view of his character.

Although the most injurious effects upon society would result from the operation of a general rule which should make it the duty of the wealthy to distribute their property among the poor, still the requisition seems a very appropriate one to tender to a man, who, thinking that he had fully kept the moral law of God, came to a divinely-commissioned teacher, and insisted upon having some way pointed out by which he might attain to some superior and extraordinary moral excellence. There is, however, after all, some difficulty in the case. We should have expected that, instead of putting in honest and sincere inquirer suddenly to so severe a test, the Savior would have at once explained to him the spiritual nature of the law, that he might have seen his sinfulness, and his need of inward purification, and of pardon.