Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Matthew 10:39

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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 ( Matthew 16:25 ; Luke 17:33 ; John 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. return to ' Top of Page ' <a name="verse-40" class="com-number"

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