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The grand obstacle to the salvation of the scribes and Pharisees was their pride, vanity and self-love. They lived on each other’s praise. If they had acknowledged Christ as the only good teacher

Adam Clarke

Multitudes of words are neither an argument of clear ideas in the writer, nor a proper means of conveying clear notions to the reader.
ADAM CLARKE

Argument Conveying Idea Mean Multitude Notion Proper Reader Word Writer
It is the grace of God, that shows and condemns the sin that humbles us.
ADAM CLARKE

Blessing Condemns God Grace Humble Show Sin
Al its commands, exhortations, and promises having the most direct tendency to make men wise, holy, and happy in themselves, and useful to one another.
ADAM CLARKE

Command Direct Exhortation Happy Man Promise Tendency Wise
Pride works frequently under a dense mask, and will often assume the garb of humility.
ADAM CLARKE

Assuming Deeply Dense Frequently Grab Humility Mask Pride Under
The custom is often noticed in the Old Testament, and still prevails in the east, and in some of the newly discovered South Sea Islands.
ADAM CLARKE

Country Custom Discovered East Island Noticed Old Prevail Still Testament
We communicate happiness to others not often by great acts of devotion and self-sacrifice, but by the absence of fault-finding and censure, by being ready to sympathize with their notions and feelings, instead of forcing them to sympathize with ours.
ADAM CLARKE

Act Communicate Devotion Fault Great Happiness Happy Other Sacrifice Self
Woe to that man who runs when God has not sent him; and woe to him who refuses to run, or who ceases to run, when God has sent him.
ADAM CLARKE

Cease God Man Refuse Run Running Send Woe
Man may be considered as having a twofold origin – natural, which is common and the same to all – patronymic, which belongs to the various families of which the whole human race is composed.
ADAM CLARKE

Common Considered Family Human Man Natural Origin Patronymic Race Same Twofold
Many talk much, and indeed well, of what Christ has done for us: but how little is spoken of what he is to do in us! and yet all that he has done for us is in reference to what he is to do in us.
ADAM CLARKE

Christ Done Humble Indeed Little Man Spoken
Matthew being a constant attendant on our Lord, his history is an account of what he saw and heard; and, being influenced by the Holy Spirit, his history is entitled to the utmost degree of credibility.
ADAM CLARKE

Account Attendant Degree Heard History Lord Saw Spirit
Deeply consider that it is your duty and interest to read the Holy Scriptures.
ADAM CLARKE

Consider Deeply Duty Holy Interest Read Scripture
But this Christ or Redeemer took not upon him the nature of angels, but the seed of Abraham, that is, human nature, that in the nature which sinned he might make the expiation required.
ADAM CLARKE

Abraham Angel Expiation Human Nature Jesus Christ might People Redeemer Seed
Even papists could not see that a moral evil was detained in the soul through its physical connection with the body; and that it required the dissolution of this physical connection before the moral contagion could be removed.
ADAM CLARKE

Connection Detained Evil Moral Papist Physical Soul
Whether the family of the Clarkes were of Norman extraction cannot be easily ascertained.
ADAM CLARKE

Ascertained Clarkes Easily Extraction Family Norman People
They must have given up the good opinion of the multitude; and they chose rather to lose their souls than to forfeit their reputation among men!
ADAM CLARKE

Forfeit Good Lose Multitude Opinion Reputation Soul
To suppose more than one supreme Source of infinite wisdom, power, and all perfections, is to assert that there is no supreme Being in existence.
ADAM CLARKE

Assert Infinite More Perfection Source Suppose

The grand obstacle to the salvation of the scribes and Pharisees was their pride, vanity and self-love. They lived on each other’s praise. If they had acknowledged Christ as the only good teacher

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