Matthew 7:28 Commentary - Abbott's Illustrated New Testament
Verse 28Were astonished. This discourse seems to have made at the time, an impression upon those who listened to it, such as its character might have led us to expect. The clearness and simplicity of the aspects of truth which it presents, the force and elegance of its diction, and the beauty and appropriateness of its imagery, would combine to raise the sermon on the mount to the very highest rank, if we were to consider it simply as human composition. And vast has been the influence, too, which has exerted upon all that portion of the human race, to which the pen and the press have yet made it known; as it has now, for sixty successive generations, stood conspicuously before mankind, holding up to view the true tests and characteristics of virtue,--exposing, hypocrisy, promoting feelings of filial affection towards God, and a calm and happy trust in his superintending providence,--quieting the anxieties of human life, and lightening its cares,--and, more than all, soothing the anguish of remorse for sin, by pointing out the means and the certainty of pardon. It is remarkable, too, that its principles, new and startling as they were, when first announced, and hostile as they have ever been to the received maxims and established customs of society have never been seriously assailed. They cannot be assailed; and there is a certain sublime confidence in the majesty of truth exhibited in the form of simple assertion, in which these great principles are left, unsustained by argument or authority. They are left to stand, self-supported, by the innate power of truth, and by the testimony of that incorruptible, witness, ever ready, in the human soul, to confirm, by its voice, the immutable and eternal distinctions between right and wrong.
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Matthew 7:28 - Abbott's Illustrated New Testament
Matthew 7:28 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible
Matthew 7:28 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments
Matthew 7:28 - Expository Notes with Practical Observations on the New Testament
Matthew 7:28 - Calvin's Complete Commentary
Matthew 7:28 - Adam Clarke's Commentary and Critical Notes on the Bible
Matthew 7:28 - Commentary on the Holy Bible by Thomas Coke
Matthew 7:28 - College Press Bible Study Textbook Series
Matthew 7:28 - Companion Bible Notes, Appendices and Graphics
Matthew 7:28 - Expository Notes of Dr. Constable (Old and New Testaments)
Matthew 7:28 - Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers (Old and New Testaments)
Matthew 7:28 - The Expositor’s Greek Testament by Robertson
Matthew 7:28 - Garner-Howes Baptist Commentary
Matthew 7:28 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible
Matthew 7:28 - Gnomon of the New Testament
Matthew 7:28 - William Godbey's Commentary on the New Testament
Matthew 7:28 - Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae (Old and New Testaments)
Matthew 7:28 - Biblical Illustrator Edited by Joseph S. Exell
Matthew 7:28 - Jamieson, Fausset and Brown's Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
Matthew 7:28 - The Popular Commentary on the Bible by Kretzmann
Matthew 7:28 - Expositions Of Holy Scripture by Alexander MacLaren
Matthew 7:28 - Heinrich August Wilhelm Meyer's New Testament Commentary
Matthew 7:28 - Church Pulpit Commentary
Matthew 7:28 - The People's Bible by Joseph Parker
Matthew 7:28 - Peake's Commentary on the Bible
Matthew 7:28 - Commentary Series on the Bible by Peter Pett
Matthew 7:28 - English Annotations on the Holy Bible by Matthew Poole
Matthew 7:28 - Robertson's Word Pictures in the New Testament
Matthew 7:28 - A Popular Commentary on the New Testament
Matthew 7:28 - John Trapp's Complete Commentary (Old and New Testaments)
Matthew 7:28 - The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Matthew 7:28 - You Can Understand the Bible: Study Guide Commentary Series by Bob Utley
Matthew 7:28 - Vincent's Word Studies in the New Testament
Matthew 7:28 - Whedon's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments
Abbott's Illustrated New Testament

The electronic edition of John S. C. Abbott and Jacob Abbott's The New Testament of Our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ; Translated Out of the Original Greek, and with the Former Translations Diligently Compared and Revised; with Explanatory Notes has been produced from a copy of the printed text published by O. A. Browning and Company (Toledo, OH, 1878). The title on the spine of the book is Abbott's Illustrated New Testament, and on the half-title page, The Pictorial New Testament; with Notes; by Jacob and John S. C. Abbott.