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But he answered, `Most assuredly I tell you, I don`t know you.`
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A Rejection of Relationship
Commentators unanimously explain that when the bridegroom says "I know you not," it is not a statement of ignorance but of relationship. It means "I do not approve of you" or "I do not acknowledge you as my friends." As Albert Barnes and Charles Spurgeon note, this divine knowledge is always tied to affection and a loving, approved relationship, which was absent with the foolish virgins.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
I know you not. You were not in the company of those who attended me to the marriage feast, and are unknown to me. Applied to professing C…
I know you not (ουκ οιδα υμας). Hence there was no reason for special or unusual favours to be granted them. They must abide the c…
19th Century
Anglican
I know you not—The sentence of rejection is clothed in the same language as in Matthew 7:23. The Lord knoweth them th…
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Baptist
But he answered and said, Verily I say unto you, I know you not.
“The other virgins” were not “ready” when the bridegroom came, and…
The bridegroom comes, the wise virgins enter, and the door is shut. The intense cries of the ill-prepared and foolish latecomers are of no avail. B…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
But he answered and said The Lord and bridegroom from within, thought fit to give them an answer, but an unexpected and awful …
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The circumstances of the parable of the ten virgins were taken from the marriage customs among the Jews and explain the great day of Christ's comin…
13th Century
Catholic
Here, the discussion concerned the Lord’s Coming for the Judgment; here, it concerns the Judgment itself. Therefore, this chapter is divided into t…
