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Mat 7:28. Συνετέλεσεν, concluded) The Lord did nothing abruptly: see ch. Mat 11:1, Mat 19:1, Mat 26:1.-ἐξεπλήσσοντο, were astonished) The attractions of true teaching are genuine; those of profane, futile. You may wonder, perhaps, why our Lord did not in this discourse speak more clearly concerning His own Person. But (1) He explained His teaching so excellently, that from thence His auditors might judge of the excellence of the Prophet who thus taught; (2) His person had been already[351] sufficiently declared; (3) in the discourse itself, He sufficiently intimates who He is, namely, “He that cometh,”[352] i.e., the Son of God, the Judge of all; see ch. Mat 5:11; Mat 5:17; Mat 5:22, Mat 7:21-27.
[351] e.g. Mat 3:17.-(I. B.)
[352] See ch. Mat 11:3.-(I. B.)