The Pulpit Commentary: St. Mark (Vol. I)

by H. D. M. Spence

Publisher:

Funk & Wagnalls

, 1909

Overview

One of the largest homiletical commentary sets of its kind, this work gives a verse-by-verse exposition, a translation, and historical and geographical information, followed by the homiletics section, homilies by numerous authors, and a homiletical index to the Bible.

Contents

Top Highlights

“St. Luke (9:23) adds the words (καθ᾽ ἡμέραν), ‘daily:’ ‘let him take up his cross daily;’ thus showing that ‘every day,’ and often ‘at every hour,’ something occurs which it becomes us to bear patiently and bravely, and so on continually through our whole life. He takes up his cross who is crucified to the world. But he to whom the world is crucified follows his crucified Lord. This cross assumes various forms; such as persecution and martyrdom, affliction and sorrow of whatever kind, appointed by God; temptations of Satan, permitted by God for our trial, to increase our humility and virtue, and to make brighter our crown.” (Page 336)

“The light is to be set on ‘a lampstand,’ and in like manner the light which we have received is to shine before men. As Christians, we are Christ’s light-bearers. By this illustration our Lord teaches that he was unwilling that the mysteries of this great parable of the sower and of other parables should be concealed, but that his disciples should unfold these things to others as he had to them, although at present they might not be able to receive them.” (Page 158)

“And all this was done (1) that there might be clear evidence that the man was actually possessed by the evil spirit; (2) that the anger and malice of the evil spirit might be shown; and (3) that it might be manifest that the unclean spirit came out, not of his own accord, but constrained and vanquished by Christ.” (Page 6)

“It means ‘Go for peace.’ Pass into the realm, the element of peace, in which henceforth thy life shall move. It is here obvious to remark that this malady represents to us the ever-flowing bitter fountain of sin, for which no styptic treatment can be found in human philosophy. The remedy is only to be found in Christ. To touch Christ’s garment is to believe in his incarnation, whereby he has touched us, and so has enabled us by faith to touch him, and to receive his blessing of peace.” (Page 212)

Product Details

• Title: St. Mark (Vol. I)
• Author: H. D. M. Spence
• Series: Pulpit Commentary
• Publisher: Funk & Wagnalls
• Print Publication Date: 1909
• Logos Release Date: 2004
• Era: era:modern
• Language: English
• Resources: 1
• Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
• Subject: Bible. N.T. Mark › Commentaries
• Resource ID: LLS:29.46.17
• Resource Type: Bible Commentary
• Metadata Last Updated: 2022-02-11T16:26:53Z

About H. D. M. Spence

H.D.M. Spence (1836–1917), or the Very Reverend Henry Donald Maurice Spence, was an Anglican dean and author at the end of the nineteenth century and the beginning of the twentieth.

Spence was educated at Westminster School and Corpus Christi College in Cambridge, and ordained in 1865. He lectured in Hebrew at St. David’s College in Lampeter until 1870. He later became rector of St. Mary de Crypt in Gloucester. From 1886 until his death in 1917, Spence served as the Dean of Gloucester. In 1904, he took on his wife’s surname and went by Donald Spence Jones. 

Spence served as the general editor of the best-selling The Pulpit Commentary series, and is the author of several other commentaries and church histories.