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The first volume of The Lutheran Commentary gives the first half of the Gospel of Matthew, written in the conservative approach taken by Charles F. Schaeffer. Charles Schaeffer continues his conservative, traditional exegesis of Matthew in the second volume of The Lutheran Commentary.

PRELIMINARY OBSERVATIONS OBS. A.—After the Lord had given answers to the questions in ch. 24:3, He introduced the momentous truth that the hour of the death of each individual is “the end” of all things, virtually, in his own case; it is, as He teaches, the duty of man not so much to inquire after the precise time of the fall of Jerusalem or of the end of the world, as, rather, to make diligent preparations for his own death, which may occur when it is least expected (see above, 24:36,
Volume 2, Page 264