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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.

so easily found, if sought for only at the last moment, when death, already convulsing the body with pain and clouding the thoughts of the departing spirit, has commenced his work? Is that a favorable time for leaving and walking in the way of salvation? Even as Moses and the prophets, when too long slighted, did not aid the rich man (Luke 16:29), so Christ and the apostles cease to be saving guides when death has carried his prey away. 10 And while they went away to buy, the bridegroom came; and
Volume 2, Page 272