40<\/strong>. but it shall be given<\/em> ] This is not a very happy interpolation. The verse really runs thus: But to sit on My right hand and on My left hand is not mine to give except to those for whom it is prepared.<\/strong> To “give” here denotes to give, as of mere favour; to lavish out of caprice, as in kingdoms of the world. “The throne,” says one of old, “is the prize of toils, not a grace granted to ambition.”<\/p>\n Verse 40. Is not mine to give<\/B><\/I>] See Clarke on <\/span>Mt 20:23<\/span><\/span>.<\/P> <\/p>\n 40. But to sit on my right hand andon my left hand in not mine to give; but it shall be given to themfor whom it is prepared<\/B>“of My Father” (Mt20:23<\/span>). The supplement which our translators have inserted isapproved by some good interpreters, and the proper sense of the wordrendered “but” is certainly in favor of it. But besidesthat it makes the statement too ellipticalleaving too many wordsto be suppliedit seems to make our Lord repudiate the right toassign to each of His people his place in the kingdom of glory; athing which He nowhere else does, but rather the contrary. It is truethat He says their place is “prepared for them by His Father.”But that is true of their admission to heaven at all; and yet fromHis great white throne Jesus will Himself adjudicate the kingdom, andauthoritatively invite into it those on His right hand, calling themthe “blessed of His Father”; so little inconsistency isthere between the eternal choice of them by His Father, and thatpublic adjudication of them, not only to heaven in general, but eachto his own position in it, which all Scripture assigns to Christ. Thetrue rendering, then, of this clause, we take it, is this: “Butto sit on My right hand and on My left hand is not Mine to give, saveto them for whom it is prepared.” When therefore He says, “Itis not Mine to give,” the meaning is, “I cannot give it asa favor<\/I> to whomsoever I please,<\/I> or on a principle offavoritism;<\/I> it belongs exclusively to those for whom it isprepared,” c. And if this be His meaning, it will be seen howfar our Lord is from disclaiming the right to assign to each hisproper place in His Kingdom that on the contrary, He expresslyasserts it, merely announcing that the principle of distribution isquite different from what these petitioners supposed. Our Lord, itwill be observed, does not deny<\/I> the petition of James andJohn, or say they shall not<\/I> occupy the place in His kingdomwhich they now improperly sought:for aught we know, that may betheir true place.<\/I> All we are sure of is, that their asking it wasdispleasing to Him “to whom all judgment is committed,” andso was not fitted to gain their object, but just the reverse. (Seewhat is taught in Lu14:8-11<\/span>). One at least of these brethren, as ALFORDstrikingly remarks, saw on the right and on the left hand of theirLord, as He hung upon the tree, the crucified thieves; and bitterindeed must have been the remembrance of this ambitious prayer atthat moment.<\/P><\/p>\n But to sit on my right hand and on my left, is mine to give<\/strong>,…. There being no such places in his kingdom in the sense they petitioned; and as for the glories of the heavenly state or eternal life, the gift of these was not to be settled now it being done already: and though he had a power to give yet only to them who were given him of his Father and who were ordained to such happiness as it follows:<\/p>\n but it shall be given to them for whom it is prepared<\/strong>; that is, of his Father as is expressed in Mt 20:23<\/span> which is not to be understood as excluding these two persons but as including all others with them for whom the kingdom was prepared before the foundation of the world: the Ethiopic version therefore wrongly renders the words “but to sit on my right hand and on my left, I do not give to you, it is prepared for other”: the Jew g very badly concludes from hence against the deity of Christ and his unity with the Father he not having power to do this; whereas Christ does not say he had no power to give this honour, but only describes the persons to whom he should give it; and these being persons for whom it, is prepared by his Father instead of destroying, proves their unity.<\/p>\n g R. Isaac, Chizzuk Emuna, par. 2. c. 20. p. 409.<\/p>\n <\/strong><\/p>\n 1) “But to sit on my right hand,”<\/strong> (to de kathisai ek deksion mou) “Yet to sit continually at my right,” or on my right side, in the coming era of rewarding glory, Mat 20:23<\/span>.<\/p>\n 2) “And on<\/strong> my left hand is not mine to give; <\/strong>(e eks euonumon ouk estin emon dounai) “or to sit continually at my left (on my left) is not mine to give,” to grant, to dole out at all, for future rewards are not granted until the resurrection of the righteous, by the Father, Mat 16:27<\/span>; Mat 20:23<\/span>.<\/p>\n 3) “But it<\/strong> shall be given to them,” <\/strong>(all’ -) “But (in the strongest contrast to the will of the two apostles and the will of Jesus) it shall be assigned, granted, or given to each person, every person, 1Co 3:8<\/span>; 2Jn 1:8<\/span>. Words in italic in this verse are not in the original.<\/p>\n 4) “For<\/strong> whom it is prepared.” <\/strong>(ois hetoimastai) “To those for whom it has (at that time) been prepared,” and Matthew adds “of my Father,” Mat 20:23<\/span>, You see one’s “labors” follow him, to bring forth good fruits or evil fruits, after death. This is why God, in His wisdom, does not give one his rewards at the hour of death, See? Mat 16:27<\/span>; 1Co 3:8<\/span>; Rev 14:13<\/span>; Rev 22:12<\/span>.<\/p>\n (40) But it shall be given to them.<\/strong>Better, omitting the interpolated words, is not Mine to give, but to those for whom it has been prepared.<\/em> Our Lord disclaims, not the power to give, but that of giving arbitrarily, otherwise than His Father willed.<\/p>\n Mar 10:40<\/span> . stands alone in Mk. without the reference to the Father, which is in Mt.<\/p>\n but, &c. = but it is theirs for whom it is already prepared. Compare Mat 20:23. <\/p>\n Mat 20:23, Mat 25:34, Joh 17:2, Joh 17:24, Heb 11:16 <\/p>\n Reciprocal: Gen 41:32 – established by Act 1:7 – which<\/p>\n POSITION IN HEAVEN<\/p>\n But to sit on My right hand and on My left hand is not Mine to give; but it shall be given to them for whom it is prepared.<\/p>\n Mar 10:40<\/p>\n I. There are degrees in glory.Our Lord does not deny that there are right and left places, but admits it. Otherwise He might reasonably have made answer: You ask for right and left places, but there are no such things as degrees of glory; all will be equal. From this declaration we may draw out reasonings which will at least lessen our difficulty in accepting the decrees of God as regards the Day of Judgment. It will be seen that for every condition of the judged, from utter depravity to matured saintliness, there is the corresponding punishment or reward in that future system of rewards and punishments, when God shall judge the world in righteousness by that Man Whom He hath ordained.<\/p>\n II. Heavenly rewards given to those for whom they are prepared.Christ declined when upon earth to promise to two of His favourite disciples their future reward. He did not say that James and John should not sit on His right hand and on His left, He merely said those places should be given to those for whom they were ordained of the Father. As much as to sayDeserve the places, and you shall have them. Fulfil the conditions for a crown, and you shall have a crown. Rewards on earth may be given in an arbitrary way. But it is not so with heavenly rewards. There must be a fitness and a meetness for the stations there to be entered on; it is the carrying the Cross which often makes men fit, by well-endured humiliations, to wear the crown with dignity. The reward is only to him that overcometh.<\/p>\n III. The moral training of the acts of every day fit us for heaven.This is expressed in the idea of our sowing on earth and reaping in heaven. In rewarding virtue or punishing sin, God does not reverse any process which is going on; He only allows everything to proceed to its natural end.<\/p>\n Rev. G. J. Davies.<\/p>\n 0<\/p>\n Is not mine to give is explained at Mat 20:23.<\/p>\n But to sit on my right hand and on my left hand is not mine to give; but [it shall be given to them] for whom it is prepared. 40. but it shall be given ] This is not a very happy interpolation. 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