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Matthew 25. Contemporary English Version. A Story about Ten Young Women. 25 The kingdom of heaven is like what happened one night when ten young women took their oil lamps and went to a wedding to meet the groom.[a] 2 Five of them were foolish and five were wise. 3 The foolish ones took their lamps, but no extra oil. 4 The ones who were wise ...
When the sun had gone down and it was dark, behold, a smoking fire pot and a flaming torch passed between these pieces.
the lamp or torch is obviously the outward life of holiness by which the disciple of Christ lets his light shine before men (Matthew 5:16), and the “oil” is the divine grace, or more definitely, the gift of the Holy Spirit, without which the torch first burns dimly and then expires.
They trimmed them by removing the burnt parts of the linen or the torch, so that they would burn clear. It was needful, also, to dip them again in oil, or to pour oil upon them. This strikingly represents the conduct of most people at the approach of death.
32 But Jesus kept looking around to see who had done it. 33 Then the woman, knowing what had happened to her, came and fell at his feet and, trembling with fear, told him the whole truth. 34 He said to her, “Daughter, your faith has healed you. Go in peace and be freed from your suffering.”.
“Or what woman, if she has ten silver coins [each one equal to a day’s wages] and loses one coin, does not light a lamp and sweep the house and search carefully until she finds it? Christian Standard Bible.
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He does so because, as he goes on to say, in effect, "You must take my place." For I am already on the point of being sacrificed; the time of my departure has come. (2 Timothy 4:6 RSV) The clear implication is that Paul is passing the torch on to this younger man. Timothy would never be an apostle.
