Expositions of Holy Scripture: St. Matthew Chaps. IX to XXVIII

Alexander Maclaren was described as producing sermons whose profundity, logical arrangement, eloquence of appeal, and power over the human heart exceeded even those of Newman and Robertson. This volume applies that legendary homiletic force to the latter chapters of Matthew, where Jesus performs his most startling miracles, speaks his most challenging parables, and delivers the discourses that would define Christian theology. Maclaren reads these familiar passages not as mere narrative but as living word, each exposition breathing contemporary relevance into texts two millennia old. Here is forgiveness proclaimed as greater than healing, faith presented as the slender thread anchoring souls to divine power, and courage summoned through the simple words 'Son, be of good cheer.' For readers seeking theological depth delivered with Victorian eloquence, these expositions offer not scholarship alone but an encounter with one of the English language's most powerful religious minds.