47Again, the kingdom of heaven is like unto a net, that was cast into the sea, and gathered of every kind:
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
If a man abide not in me, he is cast forth as a branch, and is withered; and men gather them, and cast them into the fire, and they are burned.
For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, …
Go ye therefore into the highways, and as many as ye shall find, bid to the marriage. …
Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God: because many false prophets are gone out into the world. …
For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears; …
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 44-52)We have four short parables in these verses. I. That of the treasure hid in the field . Hitherto he had compared the kingdom of heaven to small things, because its beginning was small; but, lest any should thence take occasion to think meanly of it, in this parable and the next he represents it as of great value in itself, and of great advantage to those who embrace it, and are willing to come up…
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