Teks -- Matthew 10:39 (NET)

10:39 Whoever finds his life will lose it, and whoever loses his life because of me will find it.

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Robertson: Mat 10:39 - Shall lose it

Shall lose it ( apolesei autēn ).

This paradox appears in four forms according to Allen (1) Mat 10:39 (2) Mar 8:35; Mat 16:25; Luk 9:24 (3) Luk 17:33 (4) Joh 12:25. The Wisdom of Sirach (Hebrew text) in 51:26 has: "He that giveth his life findeth her (wisdom)."It is one of the profound sayings of Christ that he repeated many times. Plato ( Gorgias 512) has language somewhat similar though not so sharply put. The article and aorist participles here (ho heurōn , ho apolesas ) are timeless in themselves just like ho dechomenos in Mat 10:40 and Mat 10:41.

Vincent: Mat 10:39 - Findeth

Findeth ( εὑρὼν )

The word is really a past participle, found. Our Lord looked back in thought to each man's past, and forward to its appropriate consummation in the future. Similarly, he who lost (ἀπολέσας ) . Plato seems to have fore-shadowed this wonderful thought. " O my friend! I want you to see that the noble and the good may possibly be something different from saving and being saved, and that he who is truly a man ought not to care about living a certain time: he knows, as women say, that we must all die, and therefore he is not fond of life; he leaves all that with God, and considers in what way he can best spend his appointed term" (" Gorgias," 512). Still more to the point, Euripides:

" Who knows if life be not death, and death life ?"

Wesley: Mat 10:39 - He that findeth his life shall lose it

He that saves his life by denying me, shall lose it eternally; and he that loseth his life by confessing me, shall save it eternally. And as you shall be thus rewarded, so in proportion shall they who entertain you for my sake. Mat 16:25; Joh 12:25.

JFB: Mat 10:39 - He that findeth his life shall lose it: and he that loseth his life for my sake shall find it

Another of those pregnant sayings which our Lord so often reiterates (Mat 16:25; Luk 17:33; Joh 12:25). The pith of such paradoxical maxims depends on the double sense attached to the word "life"--a lower and a higher, the natural and the spiritual, the temporal and eternal. An entire sacrifice of the lower, with all its relationships and interests--or, a willingness to make it which is the same thing--is indispensable to the preservation of the higher life; and he who cannot bring himself to surrender the one for the sake of the other shall eventually lose both.

Clarke: Mat 10:39 - He that findeth his life, etc.

He that findeth his life, etc. - i.e. He who, for the sake of his temporal interest, abandons his spiritual concerns, shall lose his soul; and he who, in order to avoid martyrdom, abjures the pure religion of Christ, shall lose his soul, and perhaps his life too. He that findeth his life shall lose it, was literally fulfilled in Archbishop Cranmer. He confessed Christ against the devil, and his eldest son, the pope. He was ordered to be burnt; to save his life he recanted, and was, notwithstanding, burnt. Whatever a man sacrifices to God is never lost, for he finds it again in God

There is a fine piece on this subject in Juvenal, Sat. viii. l. 80, which deserves to be recorded here

- ambiguae si quando citabere testi

Incertaeque rei, Phalaris liect imperet ut si

Falsus, et admoto dictet perjuria tauro

Summum crede nefas Animam praeferre Pudor

Et propter Vitam Vivendi perdere causas

- If ever call’

To give thy witness in a doubtful case

Though Phalaris himself should bid thee lie

On pain of torture in his flaming bull

Disdain to barter innocence for life

To which life owes its lustre and its wort

Wakefield

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Calvin: Mat 10:39 - He who findeth his life // To find the life

39.He who findeth his life Lest the former doctrine, which is very difficult and troublesome to the flesh, should have little weight with us, Christ confirms it in two ways by this statement. He affirms that persons of excessive caution and foresight, when they look upon themselves as having very well defended their life, will be disappointed and will lose it; and, on the other hand, that those who disregard their life will sustain no loss, for they will recover it. We know that there is nothing which men will not do or leave undone for the sake of life, (so powerful is that attachment to it which is natural to us all;) and, therefore, it was necessary that Christ should employ such promises and threatenings in exciting his followers to despise death.

To find the life means here to possess it, or to have it in safe keeping. Those who are excessively desirous of an earthly life, take pains to guard themselves against every kind of danger, and flatter themselves with unfounded confidence, as if they were looking well to themselves, (Psa 49:18 :) but their life, though defended by such powerful safeguards, will pass away; for they will at last die, and death will bring to them everlasting ruin. On the other hand, when believers surrender themselves to die, their soul, which appears to vanish in a moment, passes into a better life. Yet as persons are sometimes found, who heedlessly lay down their life, either for the sake of ambition or of madness, Christ expressly states the reason why we ought to expose ourselves to death.

It is uncertain if the discourse, which is related by Luke, was delivered on another occasion. There, too, our Lord exhorts his followers to bear the cross, but does not dwell upon it at equal length. To support this sentiment he immediately adds two comparisons, of which Matthew takes no notice: but as the subject treated is substantially the same, I have not scrupled to introduce in this place what we find in Luke.

Defender: Mat 10:39 - lose it

This apparently paradoxical principle was emphasized by the Lord Jesus more often than any other (Mat 16:25; Mar 8:35; Luk 9:24; Luk 17:33; Joh 12:25). The same truth is also stressed by Paul (Rom 12:1, Rom 12:2; 2Co 5:14, 2Co 5:15; 2Co 6:9, 2Co 6:10; Gal 2:20; Phi 2:5-11; 2Ti 2:11, 2Ti 2:12). This divine paradox of dying to self and living unto God is the very essence of a truly happy and fulfilling life in this world and eternal life in the world to come."

TSK: Mat 10:39

Mat 16:25, Mat 16:26; Mar 8:35, Mar 8:36; Luk 17:33; Joh 12:25; Phi 1:20,Phi 1:21; 2Ti 4:6-8; Rev 2:10

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Poole: Mat 10:39

Joh 12:25, giveth us a commentary upon these words thus, He that loveth his life shall lose it; and he that hateth his life in this world shall keep it unto life eternal. He in this text is said to find his life, who thinks that he hath found, that is, saved it, who is so much in love with his life that, rather than he will lose it, he will lose God’ s favour, deny the Lord that brought him, deny the most fundamental truths of the gospel. The man that doth thus (saith Christ) shall lose it; possibly he shall not obtain the end he aims at here, but if he doth he shall lose eternal life. When, on the contrary, he that is valiant for the truth shall sometimes be preserved, notwithstanding his enemies’ rage; but if this happens not, yet he shall have life eternal, his mortality shall be swallowed up in life.

Haydock: Mat 10:39 - He that findeth

He that findeth, &c. Behold the great losses that befall such as love their souls above measure; and on the contrary, the advantages that follow from hating them as they ought. (St. John Chrysostom, hom. xxxvi.) ---

That is, he that findeth in this life pleasures and comforts, and places his affections upon them, will certainly soon lose them. For Isaias says, (Chap. xl, ver. 6,) All flesh is grass, and all the glory thereof as the flower of the field. The grass is withered, and the flower is fallen. So man's glory seems to flourish and appears great, but falls away and dies before it has come to its full bloom; for what duration is there in the flesh? and what stability in the pleasures of this world? To-day you may behold a young man, strong, beautiful, healthy, admired, and flourishing in virtue; and to-morrow you will find him quite changed, oppressed with either sin, labour, want, or sickness. (St. Ambrose) ---

But if he continues moderately happy as to temporal concerns till death, and places his affections on them, he hath found life here, but shall lose it in the next world. But he that shall, for the sake of Christ, deprive himself of the pleasures of this life, shall receive the reward of a hundred fold in the next. (Haydock)

Gill: Mat 10:39 - He that findeth his life shall lose it // he that loseth his life for my sake, shall find it.

He that findeth his life shall lose it,.... That man that seeks to preserve his life, and the temporal enjoyments of it, by a sinful compliance with his friends and the world, and by a denial of Christ, or non-confession of him; if he is not, by the providence of God, deprived of the good things of life, and dies a shameful death, both which are sometimes the case of such persons; yet he is sure to lose the happy and eternal life of his soul and body, in the world to come: so that the present finding of life, or the possession of it, on such sinful terms, will in the issue prove an infinite and irreparable loss unto him. On the other hand, Christ observes,

he that loseth his life for my sake, shall find it. That man that is willing to forego the present advantages of life, to suffer reproach and persecution, and lay down his life cheerfully for the sake of Christ and his Gospel, for the profession of his name, rather than drop, deny, conceal, or neglect any truth and ordinance of his, shall find his soul possessed of eternal life, as soon as separated from his body; and shall find his corporal life again, in the resurrection morn, to great advantage; and shall live with Christ in soul and body, in the utmost happiness, to all eternity.