MARK 10:15 — KING JAMES VERSION 0
“Verily I say unto you, Whosoever shall not receive the kingdom of God as a little child, he shall not enter therein.”
Truly I tell you, anyone who will not receive the kingdom of God like a little child will never enter it — the reception of the kingdom like a child is the condition for entry. The child's posture toward the kingdom is the model: a child receives gifts because a child cannot earn or achieve them, cannot claim merit, can only receive what is given. The kingdom of God cannot be achieved, earned, or merited — it can only be received. Those who come to it as achievers rather than receivers will not enter.
Church Fathers on Mark 10:15
The wickedness of the Pharisees in tempting Christ, has been related above, and now is shewn the great faith of the multitude, who believed that Christ conferred a blessing on the children whom they brought to Him, by the mere laying on of His hands.
That is, if ye have not innocence and purity of mind like that of children, ye cannot enter into the kingdom of heaven. Or else, we are ordered to receive the kingdom of God, that is, the doctrine of the Gospel, as a little child, because as a child, when he is taught, does not contradict his teachers, nor put together reasonings and words against them, but receives with faith what they teach, and obeys them with awe, so we also are to receive the word of the Lord with simple…
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