Cambridge Greek Testament for Schools and Colleges - Matthew 13:45

Cambridge Greek Testament for Schools and Colleges - Matthew 13:45 - 13:45

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Cambridge Greek Testament for Schools and Colleges - Matthew 13:45 - 13:45

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45, 46. THE PARABLE OF THE PEARL OF GREAT PRICE,

in St Matthew only.

Here the story is of one who succeeds in getting what he strives to obtain. The Jewish or the Greek ‘seekers after God,’ possessing many pearls, but still dissatisfied, sought others yet more choice, and finding one, true to the simplicity in Christ, renounce all for that; the one his legalism, the other his philosophy. Nathaniel, Apollos, Timotheus, Justin Martyr are amongst those who thus sought and found.