Post by Lee on Jul 8, 2014 2:08:19 GMT
Mat 8:19 And a certain scribe came, and said unto him, Master, I will follow thee whithersoever thou goest.
Mat 8:20 And Jesus saith unto him, The foxes have holes, and the birds of the air have nests; but the Son of man hath not where to lay his head.
From this we may gather that the scribe’s decision was due to a calculation of chances. If this were the Messiah (and the miracles made him think he must be), the Kingdom of God was immediately about to appear, and an espousal of his cause would secure a good place in a temporal sense. The answer of Jesus was calculated to extinguish false zeal, or sorely put to the test the true. How it acted in the scribe’s case, we shall not learn till the day of the muster with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.
Roberts, R. (1997). Nazareth Revisted [computer files (electronic ed.) (94). Birmingham, UK: The Christadelphian.
Mat 8:20 And Jesus saith unto him, The foxes have holes, and the birds of the air have nests; but the Son of man hath not where to lay his head.
From this we may gather that the scribe’s decision was due to a calculation of chances. If this were the Messiah (and the miracles made him think he must be), the Kingdom of God was immediately about to appear, and an espousal of his cause would secure a good place in a temporal sense. The answer of Jesus was calculated to extinguish false zeal, or sorely put to the test the true. How it acted in the scribe’s case, we shall not learn till the day of the muster with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.
Roberts, R. (1997). Nazareth Revisted [computer files (electronic ed.) (94). Birmingham, UK: The Christadelphian.