The Occasion of these words, spoken by Christ himself to the Pharisees and Sadducees, we shall find in the History. We read at the latter end of the foregoing Chapter, that Christ had been showing ⟨p. 2⟩of his Divine power, in a miraculous feeding of a multitude with a few Loaves and Fishes; which one would have thought should have sufficiently convinced them who he was; even the expected Messiah. Upon this, in the beginning of this Chapter, we have the Pharisees and Sadducees coming to him, and asking a sign of him, verse 1. And this was just as he had been giving of them an eminent one: So impertinent doth unbelief make men to be. Our Saviour hereupon very suitably in v. 2.3. Sharply reproves them for not making use of those Signs which they had: and this reproof he establisheth upon the consideration of their curiosity in observing, and aptness to conclude from their observation of Natural and Fallible Signs with respect to Fair and Foul Weather; in Conjunction with their Dullness and Incogitancy in observing, and Incredulity in concluding about greater, and more Momentous affairs; Viz. The Signs of the Times.
THe Occasion of these words, spoken by Christ himself to the Pharisees and Sadduces, we shall find in the History. We read at the latter end of the foregoing Chapter, that Christ had been shewing ⟨p. 2⟩of his Divine power, in a miraculous feeding of a multitude with a few Loaves and Fishes; which one would have thought should have sufficiently convinced them who he was; even the expected Messias. Upon this, in the beginning of this Chapter, we have the Pharisees and Sadduces coming to him, and asking a sign of him, verse 1. And this was just as he had been giving of them an eminent one: So impertinent doth unbelief make men to be. Our Saviour hereupon very suitably in v. 2.3. Sharply reproves them for not making use of those Signs which they had: and this reproof he establisheth upon the consideration of their curiosity in observing, and aptness to conclude from their observation of Natural and Fallible Signs with respect to Fair and Foul Weather; in Conjunction with their Dulness and Incogitancy in observing, and Incredulity in concluding about greater, and more Momentous affairs; Viz. The Signs of the Times.
