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all creation have that for which it groans, 15 and the
righteous shall shine forth as the sun in the kingdom of
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their Father.
No. V. The Kingdom Within You.
It is objected, that the kingdom of God is not material
and visible, but that it is spiritual and invisible. In sup-
port of this the following words of Jesus in Luke 17 :20-21
are cited: "When He was demanded of the Pharisees,
when the kingdom of God should come, He answered them
and said: The kingdom of God cometh not with observa-
tion; neither shall they say, lo, here! or lo, there! for be-
.hold, the kingdom of God is within you."
Observation should be translated "careful watching,"
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see Dr. Adam Clarke, or "narrow watching," see Rotber-
ham. The marginal, and better reading for "within you"
is "among you," see Rotherham, Wilson, Prof. Whitting,
and others. He did not say that the kingdom of God was
within, or in the hearts of those wicked Pharisees, but that
it was among them, viz. : within the Jewish nation. As
Bengel states it, "within is here used, not in any respect of
the heart of individual Pharisees, .... but in respect
to the whole Jewish people. The King, Messiah, and
therefore the kingdom is here : ye see and ye hear."
The sense, then, is as follows: The kingdom of God
cometh not with "careful watching." That is, not in such
a way as to be discerned only by sagacious critics, nor is it
(15) Rom. 8 :19. For the travaileth in pain together until
earnest expectation of the crea- now.
ture waiteth for the manifesta- 23. And not only they, but
tion of the sons of God. ourselves also, which have the
20. For the creature was flrstfruits of the Spirit, even
made subject to vanity, not we ourselves groan within our-
willingly, but by reason of him selves, waiting the adoption,
who hath subjected the same in to tcit, the redemption of our
body.
hope ;
21. Because the creature it- d6) Mat. 13 :42. And shall
self also shall be delivered from cast them into a furnace of fire :
the bondage of corruption into ^SSuJf^St .?*. walllng and
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the glorious liberty of the chil- "Jf',& snS the righteous
shine forth as the sun In the
22. For wo know that the kingdom of their Father. Who
whole creation groaneth and hath ears to hear, let him hear.