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teaching them to observe all things which I commanded you. Behold, I am with you always, even to the end of the age." Amen.
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The Unchanging Curriculum
Commentators like Spurgeon, Calvin, and Gill stress that the disciples' teaching task is not to invent new doctrines or adapt the message to the times. Their commission is to faithfully teach 'all things whatsoever I have commanded you.' This means the content of Christian instruction is fixed by Christ himself and, as the Expositor's commentary notes, is meant to be obeyed, not just known as abstract theory.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
Lo, I am with you. That is, by my Spirit, my providence, my attending counsel and guidance. I will strengthen, assist, and guide you. This…
Teaching them (διδασκοντες αυτους). Christians have been slow to realize the full value of what we now call religious education. T…
19th Century
Anglican
All things whatever I have commanded you — The words obviously point, in the first instance, to the teaching of our Lord recorded in the G…
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Baptist
Baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost: teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commande…
Those who are discipled must be taught. The content of this instruction is everything Jesus commanded the first disciples. Three things stand out. …
16th Century
Protestant
Teaching them to observe all things. By these words, as I have previously suggested, Christ shows that, in sending the apostles, he does n…
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
Teaching them to observe all things All ordinances, not only baptism, but the Lord's supper; all positive institutio…
This evangelist passes over other appearances of Christ, recorded by Luke and John, and hastens to the most solemn one—an appearance appointed befo…
13th Century
Catholic
After the Evangelist finished the mysteries of the Lord’s Passion, he treats of the triumph of the Lord’s Resurrection: and it is divided as follow…
