The Yale expositor., 1906-03-30

only TO the glorified church which
shall reign with Christ hereafter
Speakers Commentary. but he that
doeth the will of my Father" This
man also says Lord, Lord, but not
merely says it"-Pulpit Commentary.
Which is in heaven" and therefore
knows best how to direct men into
the kingdom of heaven.
%. In that day" The dread day
of judgment. In thy name" r. ",
"by thy name" as if il were used as
a magical formula. Many wonderful
works Miracles, as the word is
usually translated.
%. Profess unto them" Prof.
Bruce would translate this by the
apologize confess as if Christ
would say, Il ought to know men who
have done such wonders, but l do
not" II never knew you The
never" is very strong; almost never,
never" Depart from me-" The
greatest of preachers breads such a
sentence q Cor. 9:27) Lest by any
means. when | have preached to 9TH
ers, | myself should be a castaway.'
Cambridge Bible.
The True Foundation, Gods WILL
Gods will is an opinion, it is a COM
mand. An officer, to whom the Duke
of Wellington had given an order,
tried TO show that what he was hidden
TO do was impossible. Sir" said the
Iron Duke, Il do not ask for your opin-
ion; | give you my orders
God requires obedience only be-
cause his will is best for us. When
Ruskin was a baby he struggled per-
sistently to grasp hot tea-urn At
last his wise mother said. Let him
touch it, nurse" He touched it, and
received his first lesson in obedience.
Nv. Two Contrasting Pictures of
Life.-Vs. 24-29. 1t is characteristic
of Christ's method of teaching that
the Sermon on the Mount closes with
a parable. This parable takes up all
that has gone before, and draws it
together into two pictures that can.
not be forgotten.
First Picture: The Well Founded
Life. "a. whatsoever heareth these
the Word. So far they are alike. In
like manner the two houses have ex.
ternally the same appearance. The
great day of trial shows the differ.
ence."-Cambridge Bible. Built his
house upon a rock" r. ", "the rock"
In Luke g. 4S the words are more
graphic. The house is the life, and
fHf f.nl- % .iarN Il,
Other foundation can no man lay
than that which is laid, which is Je-
sus Christ" See | Cor g.: 1917.
%. THE rain descended, . floods
=. winds" They represent the on
set of troubles, trials, and temptations
that assail all lives. And it fell not"
This prophecy was verified in the
primitive church. bearing all the brunt
of the waves and storms of the world,
of people, OF tyrants, of friends, of
strangers, of the devil himself perse.
cutting her, and venting all the hurri.
cane of his rage upon her. Philip
Schaff. 1t is verified every day by
the patient endurance of thousands of
unknown Christian heroes
Second Picture: The Ill-Founded
Life. 26. And doeth them not" For.
getting them, or leaving them as mere
theories apart from life. "A foolish
man" Christ is not offending against
his own precept in Matt. 5: %. because
he is not speaking in anger or con.
tempt. but in sadness and with pur.
pose to reform. Built his house upon
the sand The sand represents any
basis of life except the will OF God,
obedience TO Christ
q. And the rain descended" etc.
In the Greek. as in V. %, the style is
rendered very vivacious by inversion:
Descended the rain. and came the
floods, and blew the winds" "And
beat upon that house" r.. ",
"smote." a. stronger word that the.
beat" of v 25,-"struck upon IL with
immediate final effect "-Expositor's
Greek Testament "And great was
the fall of it," Implying not neces-
sarily a great building, but complete
ruin.
The Effect of the Sermon. %. THE
people were astonished at his doc.
trine." r. ". his teaching" The
verb means. literally. Struck out"
They were driven out of their senses,
astounded
20. For he taught them as one hav-
ing authority" With independent, orig
inal thought and Power. And not as
the scribes" The official transcribers
and expounders of the law, who we're
always bound by its words and by
precedents.
Christ, the One Foundation.
He alone reaches down to the bed
rock. He alone reaches from man, our
shifting human scenes and feeble,
drifting powers. to God. the all-wise,
all-powerful Creator.
He alone endures for eternity Build
your life on gold, on books, on rank,
ON human fame, and the bursting Of
the tiniest blood vessel in your brain
may wash 1t all away. Christian char
acter is the only structure that can
withstand the onrush of the river
of death.