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The parable of the ten virgins. (1-13) The parable of the talents. (14-30) The judgment. (31-46)
Verses 1-13 The circumstances of the parable of the ten virgins were taken from the marriage customs among the Jews, and explain the great day of Christ's coming. See the nature of Christianity. As Christians we profess to attend upon Christ, to honour him, also to be waiting for his coming. Sincere Christians are the wise virgins, and hypocrites the foolish ones. Those are the truly wise or foolish that are so in the affairs of their souls. Many have a lamp of profession in their hands, but have not, in their hearts, sound knowledge and settled resolution, which are needed to carry them through the services and trials of the present state. Their hearts are not stored with holy dispositions, by the new-creating Spirit of God. Our light must shine before men in good works; but this is not likely to be long done, unless there is a fixed, active principle in the heart, of faith in Christ, and love to God and our brethren. They all slumbered and slept. The delay represents the space between the real or apparent conversion of these professors, and the coming of Christ, to take them away by death, or to judge the world. But though Christ tarry past our time, he will not tarry past the due time. The wise virgins kept their lamps burning, but they did not keep themselves awake. Too many real Christians grow remiss, and one degree of carelessness makes way for another. Those that allow themselves to slumber, will scarcely keep from sleeping; therefore dread the beginning of spiritual decays. A startling summons was given. Go ye forth to meet Him, is a call to those prepared. The notice of Christ's approach, and the call to meet him, will awaken. Even those best prepared for death ( 2 Peter. 3:14 ) day of search and inquiry; and it concerns us to think how we shall then be found. Some wanted oil to supply their lamps when going out. Those that take up short of true grace, will certainly find the want of it one time or other. An outward profession may light a man along this world, but the damps of the valley of the shadow of death will put out such a light. Those who care not to live the life, yet would die the death of the righteous. But those that would be saved, must have grace of their own; and those that have most grace, have none to spare. The best need more from Christ. And while the poor alarmed soul addresses itself, upon a sick-bed, to repentance and prayer, in awful confusion, death comes, judgment comes, the work is undone, and the poor sinner is undone for ever. This comes of having oil to buy when we should burn it, grace to get when we should use it. Those, and those only, shall go to heaven hereafter, that are made ready for heaven here. The suddenness of death and of Christ's coming to us then, will not hinder our happiness, if we have been prepared. The door was shut. Many will seek admission into heaven when it is too late. The vain confidence of hypocrites will carry them far in expectations of happiness. The unexpected summons of death may alarm the Christian; but, proceeding without delay to trim his lamp, his graces often shine more bright; while the mere professor's conduct shows that his lamp is going out. Watch therefore, attend to the business of your souls. Be in the fear of the Lord all the day long.
Verses 14-30 Christ keeps no servants to be idle: they have received their all from him, and have nothing they can call their own but sin. Our receiving from Christ is in order to our working for him. The manifestation of the Spirit is given to every man to profit withal. The day of account comes at last. We must all be reckoned with as to what good we have got to our own souls, and have done to others, by the advantages we have enjoyed. It is not meant that the improving of natural powers can entitle a man to Divine grace. It is the real Christian's liberty and privilege to be employed as his Redeemer's servant, in promoting his glory, and the good of his people: the love of Christ constrains him to live no longer to himself, but to Him that died for him, and rose again. Those who think it impossible to please God, and in vain to serve him, will do nothing to purpose in religion. They complain that He requires of them more than they are capable of, and punishes them for what they cannot help. Whatever they may pretend, the fact is, they dislike the character and work of the Lord. The slothful servant is sentenced to be deprived of his talent. This may be applied to the blessings of this life; but rather to the means of grace. Those who know not the day of their visitation, shall have the things that belong to their peace hid from their eyes. His doom is, to be cast into outer darkness. It is a usual way of expressing the miseries of the damned in hell. Here, as in what was said to the faithful servants, our Saviour goes out of the parable into the thing intended by it, and this serves as a key to the whole. Let us not envy sinners, or covet any of their perishing possessions.
Verses 31-46 This is a description of the last judgment. It is as an explanation of the former parables. There is a judgment to come, in which every man shall be sentenced to a state of everlasting happiness, or misery. Christ shall come, not only in the glory of his Father, but in his own glory, as Mediator. The wicked and godly here dwell together, in the same cities, churches, families, and are not always to be known the one from the other; such are the weaknesses of saints, such the hypocrisies of sinners; and death takes both: but in that day they will be parted for ever. Jesus Christ is the great Shepherd; he will shortly distinguish between those that are his, and those that are not. All other distinctions will be done away; but the great one between saints and sinners, holy and unholy, will remain for ever. The happiness the saints shall possess is very great. It is a kingdom; the most valuable possession on earth; yet this is but a faint resemblance of the blessed state of the saints in heaven. It is a kingdom prepared. The Father provided it for them in the greatness of his wisdom and power; the Son purchased it for them; and the blessed Spirit, in preparing them for the kingdom, is preparing it for them. It is prepared for them: it is in all points adapted to the new nature of a sanctified soul. It is prepared from the foundation of the world. This happiness was for the saints, and they for it, from all eternity. They shall come and inherit it. What we inherit is not got by ourselves. It is God that makes heirs of heaven. We are not to suppose that acts of bounty will entitle to eternal happiness. Good works done for God's sake, through Jesus Christ, are here noticed as marking the character of believers made holy by the Spirit of Christ, and as the effects of grace bestowed on those who do them. The wicked in this world were often called to come to Christ for life and rest, but they turned from his calls; and justly are those bid to depart from Christ, that would not come to him. Condemned sinners will in vain offer excuses. The punishment of the wicked will be an everlasting punishment; their state cannot be altered. Thus life and death, good and evil, the blessing and the curse, are set before us, that we may choose our way, and as our way so shall our end be.
Matthew 25:1-13 . PARABLE OF THE TEN VIRGINS.
This and the following parable are in Matthew alone.
1. Then--at the time referred to at the close of the preceding chapter, the time of the Lord's Second Coming to reward His faithful servants and take vengeance on the faithless. Then shall the kingdom of heaven be likened unto ten virgins, which took
their lamps, and went forth to meet the bridegroom--This supplies a key to the parable, whose object is, in the main, the same as that of the last parable--to illustrate the vigilant and expectant attitude of faith, in respect of which believers are described as "they that look for Him" ( Hebrews 9:28 ), and "love His appearing" ( 2 Timothy 4:8 ). In the last parable it was that of servants waiting for their absent Lord; in this it is that of virgin attendants on a Bride, whose duty it was to go forth at night with lamps, and be ready on the appearance of the Bridegroom to conduct the Bride to his house, and go in with him to the marriage. This entire and beautiful change of figure brings out the lesson of the former parable in quite a new light. But let it be observed that, just as in the parable of the Marriage Supper, so in this--the Bride does not come into view at all in this parable; the Virgins and the Bridegroom holding forth all the intended instruction: nor could believers be represented both as Bride and Bridal Attendants without incongruity.
2. And five of them were wise, and five were foolish--They are not distinguished into good and bad, as TRENCH observes, but into "wise" and "foolish"--just as in Matthew 7:25-27 those who reared their house for eternity are distinguished into "wise" and "foolish builders"; because in both cases a certain degree of goodwill towards the truth is assumed. To make anything of the equal number of both classes would, we think, be precarious, save to warn us how large a portion of those who, up to the last, so nearly resemble those that love Christ's appearing will be disowned by Him when He comes.
3. They that were foolish took their lamps, and took no oil with them:
4. But the wise took oil in their vessels with their lamps--What are these "lamps" and this "oil"? Many answers have been given. But since the foolish as well as the wise took their lamps and went forth with them to meet the Bridegroom, these lighted lamps and this advance a certain way in company with the wise, must denote that Christian profession which is common to all who bear the Christian name; while the insufficiency of this without something else, of which they never possessed themselves, shows that "the foolish" mean those who, with all that is common to them with real Christians, lack the essential preparation for meeting Christ. Then, since the wisdom of "the wise" consisted in their taking with their lamps a supply of oil in their vessels, keeping their lamps burning till the Bridegroom came, and so fitting them to go in with Him to the marriage, this supply of oil must mean that inward reality of grace which alone will stand when He appears whose eyes are as a flame of fire. But this is too general; for it cannot be for nothing that this inward grace is here set forth by the familiar symbol of oil, by which the Spirit of all grace is so constantly represented in Scripture. Beyond all doubt, this was what was symbolized by that precious anointing oil with which Aaron and his sons were consecrated to the priestly office ( Exodus 30:23-25 Exodus 30:30 ); by "the oil of gladness above His fellows" with which Messiah was to be anointed ( Psalms 45:7 , Hebrews 1:9 ), even as it is expressly said, that "God giveth not the Spirit by measure unto Him" ( John 3:34 ); and by the bowl full of golden oil, in Zechariah's vision, which, receiving its supplies from the two olive trees on either side of it, poured it through seven golden pipes into the golden lamp-stand to keep it continually burning bright ( Zechariah 4:1-14 )--for the prophet is expressly told that it was to proclaim the great truth, "Not by might, nor by power, but by MY SPIRIT, saith the Lord of hosts [shall this temple be built]. Who art thou, O great mountain [of opposition to this issue]? Before Zerubbabel thou shalt become a plain [or, be swept out of the way], and he shall bring forth the head stone [of the temple], with shoutings [crying], GRACE, GRACE unto it." This supply of oil, then, representing that inward grace which distinguishes the wise, must denote, more particularly, that "supply of the Spirit of Jesus Christ," which, as it is the source of the new spiritual life at the first, is the secret of its enduring character. Everything short of this may be possessed by "the foolish"; while it is the possession of this that makes "the wise" to be "ready" when the Bridegroom appears, and fit to "go in with Him to the marriage." Just so in the parable of the Sower, the stony-ground hearers, "having no deepness of earth" and "no root in themselves," though they spring up and get even into ear, never ripen, while they in the good ground bear the precious grain.
5. While the bridegroom tarried--So in Matthew 24:48 , "My Lord delayeth His coming"; and so Peter says sublimely of the ascended Saviour, "Whom the heaven must receive until the times of restitution of all things" ( Acts 3:21 , and compare Luke 19:11 Luke 19:12 ). Christ "tarries," among other reasons, to try the faith and patience of His people. they
all slumbered and slept--the wise as well as the foolish. The world "slumbered" signifies, simply, "nodded," or, "became drowsy"; while the world "slept" is the usual word for lying down to sleep, denoting two stages of spiritual declension--first, that half-involuntary lethargy or drowsiness which is apt to steal over one who falls into inactivity; and then a conscious, deliberate yielding to it, after a little vain resistance. Such was the state alike of the wise and the foolish virgins, even till the cry of the Bridegroom's approach awoke them. So likewise in the parable of the Importunate Widow: "When the Son of man cometh, shall He find faith on the earth?" ( Luke 18:8 ).
6. And at midnight--that is, the time when the Bridegroom will be least expected; for "the day of the Lord so cometh as a thief in the night" ( 1 Thessalonians 5:2 ).
there was a cry made, Behold, the Bridegroom cometh; go ye out to meet him--that is, Be ready to welcome Him.
7. Then all those virgins arose, and trimmed their lamps--the foolish virgins as well as the wise. How very long do both parties seem the same--almost to the moment of decision! Looking at the mere form of the parable, it is evident that the folly of "the foolish" consisted not in having no oil at all; for they must have had oil enough in their lamps to keep them burning up to this moment: their folly consisted in not making provision against its exhaustion, by taking with their lamp an oil-vessel wherewith to replenish their lamp from time to time, and so have it burning until the Bridegroom should come. Are we, then--with some even superior expositors--to conclude that the foolish virgins must represent true Christians as well as do the wise, since only true Christians have the Spirit, and that the difference between the two classes consists only in the one having the necessary watchfulness which the other wants? Certainly not. Since the parable was designed to hold forth the prepared and the unprepared to meet Christ at His coming, and how the unprepared might, up to the very last, be confounded with the prepared--the structure of the parable behooved to accommodate itself to this, by making the lamps of the foolish to burn, as well as those of the wise, up to a certain point of time, and only then to discover their inability to burn on for want of a fresh supply of oil. But this is evidently just a structural device; and the real difference between the two classes who profess to love the Lord's appearing is a radical one--the possession by the one class of an enduring principle of spiritual life, and the want of it by the other.
8. And the foolish said unto the wise, Give us of your oil; for our lamps are gone out--rather, as in the Margin, "are going out"; for oil will not light an extinguished lamp, though it will keep a burning one from going out. Ah! now at length they have discovered not only their own folly, but the wisdom of the other class, and they do homage to it. They did not perhaps despise them before, but they thought them righteous overmuch; now they are forced, with bitter mortification, to wish they were like them.
9. But the wise answered, Not so; lest there be not enough for us and you--The words "Not so," it will be seen, are not in the original, where the reply is very elliptical--"In case there be not enough for us and you." A truly wise answer this. "And what, then, if we shall share it with you? Why, both will be undone."
but go ye rather to them that sell, and buy for yourselves--Here again it would be straining the parable beyond its legitimate design to make it teach that men may get salvation even after they are supposed and required to have it already gotten. It is merely a friendly way of reminding them of the proper way of obtaining the needed and precious article, with a certain reflection on them for having it now to seek. Also, when the parable speaks of "selling" and "buying" that valuable article, it means simply, "Go, get it in the only legitimate way." And yet the word "buy" is significant; for we are elsewhere bidden, "buy wine and milk without money and without price," and "buy of Christ gold tried in the fire," ( Isaiah 55:1 , Revelation 3:18 ). Now, since what we pay the demanded price for becomes thereby our own property, the salvation which we thus take gratuitously at God's hands, being bought in His own sense of that word, becomes ours thereby in inalienable possession. (Compare for the language, Proverbs 23:23 , Matthew 13:44 ).
10. And while they went to buy, the Bridegroom came; and they that were ready went in with him to the marriage: and the door was shut--They are sensible of their past folly; they have taken good advice: they are in the act of getting what alone they lacked: a very little more, and they also are ready. But the Bridegroom comes; the ready are admitted; "the door is shut," and they are undone. How graphic and appalling this picture of one almost saved--but lost!
11. Afterward came also the other virgins, saying, Lord, Lord, open to us--In Matthew 7:22 this reiteration of the name was an exclamation rather of surprise; here it is a piteous cry of urgency, bordering on despair. Ah! now at length their eyes are wide open, and they realize all the consequences of their past folly.
12. But he answered and said, Verily I say unto you, I know you not--The attempt to establish a difference between "I know you not" here, and "I never knew you" in Matthew 7:23 --as if this were gentler, and so implied a milder fate, reserved for "the foolish" of this parable--is to be resisted, though advocated by such critics as OLSHAUSEN, STIER, and ALFORD. Besides being inconsistent with the general tenor of such language, and particularly the solemn moral of the whole ( Matthew 25:13 ), it is a kind of criticism which tampers with some of the most awful warnings regarding the future. If it be asked why unworthy guests were admitted to the marriage of the King's Son, in a former parable, and the foolish virgins are excluded in this one, we may answer, in the admirable words of GERHARD, quoted by TRENCH, that those festivities are celebrated in this life, in the Church militant; these at the last day, in the Church triumphant; to those, even they are admitted who are not adorned with the wedding garment; but to these, only they to whom it is granted to be arrayed in fine linen clean and white, which is the righteousness of saints ( Revelation 19:8 ); to those, men are called by the trumpet of the Gospel; to these by the trumpet of the Archangel; to those, who enters may go out from them, or be cast out; who is once introduced to these never goes out, nor is cast out, from them any more: wherefore it is said, "The door is shut."
13. Watch therefore; for ye know neither the day nor the hour wherein the Son of man cometh--This, the moral or practical lesson of the whole parable, needs no comment.
Matthew 25:14-30 . PARABLE OF THE TALENTS.
This parable, while closely resembling it, is yet a different one from that of THE POUNDS, in Luke 19:11-27 ; though CALVIN, OLSHAUSEN, MEYER, and others identify them--but not DE WETTE and NEANDER. For the difference between the two parables, see the opening remarks on that of The Pounds. While, as TRENCH observes with his usual felicity, "the virgins were represented as waiting for their Lord, we have the servants working for Him; there the inward spiritual life of the faithful was described; here his external activity. It is not, therefore, without good reason that they appear in their actual order--that of the Virgins first, and of the Talents following--since it is the sole condition of a profitable outward activity for the kingdom of God, that the life of God be diligently maintained within the heart."
14. For the kingdom of heaven is as a man--The ellipsis is better supplied by our translators in the corresponding passage of Mark ( Mark 13:34 ), "[For the Son of man is] as a man"
travelling into a far country--or more simply, "going abroad." The idea of long "tarrying" is certainly implied here, since it is expressed in Matthew 25:19 .
who called his own servants, and delivered unto them his goods--Between master and slaves this was not uncommon in ancient times. Christ's "servants" here mean all who, by their Christian profession, stand in the relation to Him of entire subjection. His "goods" mean all their gifts and endowments, whether original or acquired, natural or spiritual. As all that slaves have belongs to their master, so Christ has a claim to everything which belongs to His people, everything which, may be turned to good, and He demands its appropriation to His service, or, viewing it otherwise, they first offer it up to Him; as being "not their own, but bought with a price" ( 1 Corinthians 6:19 1 Corinthians 6:20 ), and He "delivers it to them" again to be put to use in His service.
15. And unto one he gave five talents, to another two, and to another one--While the proportion of gifts is different in each, the same fidelity is required of all, and equally rewarded. And thus there is perfect equity.
to every man according to his several ability--his natural capacity as enlisted in Christ's service, and his opportunities in providence for employing the gifts bestowed on him.
and straightway took his journey--Compare Matthew 21:33 , where the same departure is ascribed to God, after setting up the ancient economy. In both cases, it denotes the leaving of men to the action of all those spiritual laws and influences of Heaven under which they have been graciously placed for their own salvation and the advancement of their Lord's kingdom.
16. Then he that had received the five talents went and traded with the same--expressive of the activity which he put forth and the labor he bestowed.
and made them other five talents.
17. And likewise he that had received two he also gained other two--each doubling what he received, and therefore both equally faithful.
18. But he that had received one went and digged in the earth, and hid his lord's money--not misspending, but simply making no use of it. Nay, his action seems that of one anxious that the gift should not be misused or lost, but ready to be returned, just as he got it.
19. After a long time the lord of those servants cometh and reckoneth with them--That any one--within the lifetime of the apostles at least--with such words before them, should think that Jesus had given any reason to expect His Second Appearing within that period, would seem strange, did we not know the tendency of enthusiastic, ill-regulated love of His appearing ever to take this turn.
20. Lord, thou deliveredst unto me five talents; behold, I have gained besides them five talents more--How beautifully does this illustrate what the beloved disciple says of "boldness in the day of judgment," and his desire that "when He shall appear we may have confidence, and not be ashamed before Him at His coming!" ( 1 John 4:17 , 2:28 ).
21. His lord said unto him, Well done--a single word, not of bare satisfaction, but of warm and delighted commendation. And from what Lips!
thou hast been faithful over a few things, I will make thee ruler over many things, &c.
22. He also that had received two talents came . . . good and faithful servant: thou hast been faithful over a few things, I will make thee ruler over many things--Both are commended in the same terms, and the reward of both is precisely the same. Observe also the contrasts: "Thou hast been faithful as a servant; now be a ruler--thou hast been entrusted with a few things; now have dominion over many things."
enter thou into the joy of thy lord--thy Lord's own joy. (See John 15:11 , Hebrews 12:2 ).
24. Then he which had received the one talent came and said, Lord, I knew thee that thou art an hard man--harsh. The word in Luke ( Luke 19:21 ) is "austere."
reaping where thou hast not sown, and gathering where thou hast not strawed--The sense is obvious: "I knew thou wast one whom it was impossible to serve, one whom nothing would please: exacting what was impracticable, and dissatisfied with what was attainable." Thus do men secretly think of God as a hard Master, and virtually throw on Him the blame of their fruitlessness.
25. And I was afraid--of making matters worse by meddling with it at all.
and went and hid thy talent in the earth--This depicts the conduct of all those who shut up their gifts from the active service of Christ, without actually prostituting them to unworthy uses. Fitly, therefore, may it, at least, comprehend those, to whom TRENCH refers, who, in the early Church, pleaded that they had enough to do with their own souls, and were afraid of losing them in trying to save others; and so, instead of being the salt of the earth, thought rather of keeping their own saltness by withdrawing sometimes into caves and wildernesses, from all those active ministries of love by which they might have served their brethren.
Thou wicked and slothful servant--"Wicked" or "bad" means "falsehearted," as opposed to the others, who are emphatically styled "good servants." The addition of "slothful" is to mark the precise nature of his wickedness: it consisted, it seems, not in his doing anything against, but simply nothing for his master.
Thou knewest that I reap where I sowed not, and gather where I have not strawed--He takes the servant's own account of his demands, as expressing graphically enough, not the hardness which he had basely imputed to him, but simply his demand of a profitable return for the gift entrusted.
27. thou oughtest therefore to have put my money to the exchangers--the banker.
and then at my coming I should have received mine own with usury--interest.
29. For unto every one that hath shall be given,
30. And cast ye--cast ye out.
the unprofitable servant--the useless servant, that does his Master no service.
into outer darkness--the darkness which is outside. On this expression
there shall be weeping and gnashing of
Matthew 25:31-46 . THE LAST JUDGMENT.
The close connection between this sublime scene--peculiar to Matthew--and the two preceding parables is too obvious to need pointing out.
31. When the Son of man shall come in his glory--His personal glory.
and all the holy angels with him--See Deuteronomy 33:2 , Daniel 7:9 Daniel 7:10 , Jude 1:14 ; with Hebrews 1:6 , 1 Peter 3:22 .
then shall he sit upon the throne of his glory--the glory of His judicial authority.
32. And before him shall be gathered all nations--or, "all the nations." That this should be understood to mean the heathen nations, or all except believers in Christ, will seem amazing to any simple reader. Yet this is the exposition of OLSHAUSEN, STIER, KEIL, ALFORD (though latterly with some diffidence), and of a number, though not all, of those who hold that Christ will come the second time before the millennium, and that the saints will be caught up to meet Him in the air before His appearing. Their chief argument is, the impossibility of any that ever knew the Lord Jesus wondering, at the Judgment Day, that they should be thought to have done--or left undone--anything "unto Christ." To that we shall advert when we come to it. But here we may just say, that if this scene does not describe a personal, public, final judgment on men, according to the treatment they have given to Christ--and consequently men within the Christian pale--we shall have to consider again whether our Lord's teaching on the greatest themes of human interest does indeed possess that incomparable simplicity and transparency of meaning which, by universal consent, has been ascribed to it. If it be said, But how can this be the general judgment, if only those within the Christian pale be embraced by it?--we answer, What is here described, as it certainly does not meet the case of all the family of Adam, is of course so far not general. But we have no right to conclude that the whole "judgment of the great day" will be limited to the point of view here presented. Other explanations will come up in the course of our exposition.
and he shall separate them--now for the first time; the two classes having been mingled all along up to this awful moment.
as a shepherd divideth his sheep from the goats--(See Ezekiel 34:17 ).
33. And he shall set the sheep on his right hand--the side of honor ( 1 Kings 2:19 , Psalms 45:9 , 110:1 , &c.).
but the goats on the left--the side consequently of dishonor.
34. Then shall the King--Magnificent title, here for the first and only time, save in parabolical language, given to Himself by the Lord Jesus, and that on the eve of His deepest humiliation! It is to intimate that in then addressing the heirs of the kingdom, He will put on all His regal majesty.
say unto them on his right hand, Come--the same sweet word with which He had so long invited all the weary and heavy laden to come unto Him for rest. Now it is addressed exclusively to such as have come and found rest. It is still, "Come," and to "rest" too; but to rest in a higher style, and in another region.
ye blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world--The whole story of this their blessedness is given by the apostle, in words which seem but an expression of these: "Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who hath blessed us with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places in Christ; according as He hath chosen us in Him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before Him in love." They were chosen from everlasting to the possession and enjoyment of all spiritual blessings in Christ, and so chosen in order to be holy and blameless in love. This is the holy love whose practical manifestations the King is about to recount in detail; and thus we see that their whole life of love to Christ is the fruit of an eternal purpose of love to them in Christ.
35. For I was an hungered . . . thirsty . . . a stranger, &c.
36. Naked . . . sick . . . prison, and ye came unto me.
37-39. Then shall the righteous answer him, &c.
40. And the King shall answer and say unto them, Verily I say unto you, &c.--Astonishing dialogue this between the King, from the Throne of His glory, and His wondering people! "I was an hungered, and ye gave Me meat," &c.--"Not we," they reply. "We never did that, Lord: We were born out of due time, and enjoyed not the privilege of ministering unto Thee." "But ye did it to these My brethren, now beside you, when cast upon your love." "Truth, Lord, but was that doing it to Thee? Thy name was indeed dear to us, and we thought it a great honor to suffer shame for it. When among the destitute and distressed we discerned any of the household of faith, we will not deny that our hearts leapt within us at the discovery, and when their knock came to our dwelling, our bowels were moved, as though 'our Beloved Himself had put in His hand by the hole of the door.' Sweet was the fellowship we had with them, as if we had 'entertained angels unawares'; all difference between giver and receiver somehow melted away under the beams of that love of Thine which knit us together; nay, rather, as they left us with gratitude for our poor givings, we seemed the debtors--not they. But, Lord, were we all that time in company with Thee? . . . Yes, that scene was all with Me," replies the King--"Me in the disguise of My poor ones. The door shut against Me by others was opened by you--'Ye took Me in.' Apprehended and imprisoned by the enemies of the truth, ye whom the truth had made free sought Me out diligently and found Me; visiting Me in My lonely cell at the risk of your own lives, and cheering My solitude; ye gave Me a coat, for I shivered; and then I felt warm. With cups of cold water ye moistened My parched lips; when famished with hunger ye supplied Me with crusts, and my spirit revived--"YE DID IT UNTO ME." What thoughts crowd upon us as we listen to such a description of the scenes of the Last Judgment! And in the light of this view of the heavenly dialogue, how bald and wretched, not to say unscriptural, is that view of it to which we referred at the outset, which makes it a dialogue between Christ and heathens who never heard of His name, and of course never felt any stirrings of His love in their hearts! To us it seems a poor, superficial objection to the Christian view of this scene, that Christians could never be supposed to ask such questions as the "blessed of Christ's Father" are made to ask here. If there were any difficulty in explaining this, the difficulty of the other view is such as to make it, at least, insufferable. But there is no real difficulty. The surprise expressed is not at their being told that they acted from love to Christ, but that Christ Himself was the Personal Object of all their deeds: that they found Him hungry, and supplied Him with food: that they brought water to Him, and slaked His thirst; that seeing Him naked and shivering, they put warm clothing upon Him, paid Him visits when lying in prison for the truth, and sat by His bedside when laid down with sickness. This is the astonishing interpretation which Jesus says "the King" will give to them of their own actions here below. And will any Christian reply, "How could this astonish them? Does not every Christian know that He does these very things, when He does them at all, just as they are here represented?" Nay, rather, is it conceivable that they should not be astonished, and almost doubt their own ears, to hear such an account of their own actions upon earth from the lips of the Judge? And remember, that Judge has come in His glory, and now sits upon the throne of His glory, and all the holy angels are with Him; and that it is from those glorified Lips that the words come forth, "Ye did all this unto ME." Oh, can we imagine such a word addressed to ourselves, and then fancy ourselves replying, "Of course we did--To whom else did we anything? It must be others than we that are addressed, who never knew, in all their good deeds, what they were about?" Rather, can we imagine ourselves not overpowered with astonishment, and scarcely able to credit the testimony borne to us by the King?
41.Then shall he say also unto them on the left hand, Depart from me, ye cursed, &c.--As for you on the left hand, ye did nothing for Me. I came to you also, but ye knew Me not: ye had neither warm affections nor kind deeds to bestow upon Me: I was as one despised in your eyes." "In our eyes, Lord? We never saw Thee before, and never, sure, behaved we so to Thee." "But thus ye treated these little ones that believe in Me and now stand on My right hand. In the disguise of these poor members of Mine I came soliciting your pity, but ye shut up your bowels of compassion from Me: I asked relief, but ye had none to give Me. Take back therefore your own coldness, your own contemptuous distance: Ye bid Me away from your presence, and now I bid you from Mine--Depart from Me, ye cursed!"
46. And these shall go away--these "cursed" ones. Sentence, it should seem, was first pronounced--in the hearing of the wicked--upon the righteous, who thereupon sit as assessors in the judgment upon the wicked ( 1 Corinthians 6:2 ); but sentence is first executed, it should seem, upon the wicked, in the sight of the righteous--whose glory will thus not be beheld by the wicked, while their descent into "their own place" will be witnessed by the righteous, as BENGEL notes.
into everlasting punishment--or, as in Matthew 25:41 , "everlasting fire, prepared for the devil and his angels." Compare Matthew 13:42 , 2 Thessalonians 1:9 , &c. This is said to be "prepared for the devil and his angels," because they were "first in transgression." But both have one doom, because one unholy character.
but the righteous into life eternal--that is, "life everlasting." The word in both clauses, being in the original the same, should have been the same in the translation also. Thus the decisions of this awful day will be final, irreversible, unending.


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MWForrest -
I always find the bulid-up
to the heart of the matter to be the crux of what makes a good movie a better one than a bad. Of course, for the audience then, they had no notion of the war to come, whereas it is a bit difficult sitting through the first half hour or so as I'm just pushing for the peek into the future world this film devises. The helicopter was a nice touch before its time. Ever fascinating to see what the past gets right and wrong in these predict the future surveys from a bygone era.
Public Cyberfreak -
(Note: A major part of this review will consist of comparisons between the book and the movie.)
This movie is great, an epic masterpiece. I watched the movie the same day as I finished reading the book. It was actually pretty hard to find the book in any bookstore, considering that the movie's script was also released as a book. Luckily I managed to find the actual book due to the slight difference in the title. The original book is called "The Shape of Things To Come" while the script and the movie are called "Things To Come".
Like all book-based movies the book is of course better than the movie. When it comes to this one I also think that you need to have read the book before you watch this movie to be able to appreciate it. There is a couple of things that bother me, though.
One thing that I had a very strong reaction to is the fact that they've altered the ending and several of the dates. In the book, Theotocopulos doesn't have any influence at all. He just writes down his opinions in a diary and talks about them to a similar-minded woman whom he is romantically involved with. She doesn't appear in the movie at all. Also, they've altered several of the years that things happen in. In the book, the second world war ends in 1950 and the diseases begin to appear. The "Wandering Fever" is by the way called "Masculated Fever" in the book.
There are several differences, and it would take way too long to write them all down in this review, but the movie is still a great adaptation of an epic book. I strongly recommend the book if you've got the patience to read it, considering that it isn't light reading. Even though I'm 16 years old, I think most other people of my age would find the book very boring. Personally I think it's the 2nd best book I've ever read. (The best book I've read is "I Am Legend" (1954) by Richard Matheson.)
To summarize the whole review: "Things To Come" is a great movie, but to really appreciate it, you must have read the book before watching the movie. ("The Shape of Things To Come") The book gives a more explicit context to the depicted events.
chriskemila -
Free Masons & the New World Order have funny ideas
In a future after a war that leaves the world in ruin the Free Masons establish a New World Order and build a civilization of subterranean mole people, but that's not all.
They also build a giant phallic cannon and aimlessly shoot their children into outer space to their ultimate demise in what can only be described as the biggest masturbation scene in cinematic history. Um, yah...
Life extension technology is also touched upon, but despite all the craziness, and a war to boot, this movie never really takes of and is a bore right to the end.
Give it a miss.
gumby68 -
public domain status
After an appeal in us supreme court a ruling says first admendment rights were violated by congress.Therefore any work that was in pd before the act of 1996 would under copyright law here would stay in pd.
accalaurie49 -
Important film
This film reflects the fear of the people in the 1930s of the coming of a new war and it´s possible aftermath with the whole civilization destroyed and some kind of new early middle ages following with local warlords ruling all over the land wonderful: Ralph Richardson), fighting each other for natural resources. (Soon enough there would be a real war. Of course, this war did not destroy the whole civilization, but in many ways more cruel than anyone could have imagined before.)
If this "new order" which replaces the warlords, this highly technocratic rule of engineers and scientists and gigantic technical projects, should be really wished as a "thing to come", can be doubted. Nevertheless, a marvellous film
skybandit -
Apocolypse Then!
Was this the first post-apocolyptic film, or just the first talkie? I could just see Mad Max defending the petrol from the Boss!
macabeemchai -
Fantastic. HG Wells always a pleasure. Had a chance to buy a collection of all his works oncem still regret now doing so. Thanks
grisly bear -
Great movie that is still relevant today
Made in 1936, this movie correctly predicted World War 2 and they almost got the year right. The movie was wrong about the progress of the war and underestimated the way in which Science and the Military bounce off each other to invent new ways of killing people. The movie is 100 percent right in saying that "war is hell" and the human race has to get over it if we are to achieve our full potential. This movie was based on an H.G. Wells book and it conveys the main theme of that book - that the human race should explore the universe instead of wasting money on armies and wars. This was also the main theme of Star Trek (the 1960s series and all the later re-makes) and it is a theme that never gets out of date. This movie is both scary and entertaining. Well worth watching.
mentalmummy -
Excellent film but not public domain
This is an excellent film, the film that as a kid encouraged my interest in science fiction, however the film is not in the public domain.
In the US it did become public domain in 1964 until copyright was renewed under the Uruguay rounds agreement act in 1996.
ucla1960 -
"Things To Come"the movie.
Should be in the AFI top 100, no accounting for taste.
quigs -
Things to come
The screenplay was written by H.G. Wells. It is the only screenplay he ever wrote. The book,"The Shape of Things to Come" was the last thing he wrote as a social commentary on the way things were and if we were are not careful, the "shape of things to come". The book was pessimistic and when approached to write the screenplay he was asked to make the film's ending more as a ray of hope for Mankind not darkness and gloom as was written in his social commentary(fable not science fiction).
ERaven24 -
I Cannot Believe
I cannot believe that no one has done a review for a such a great movie. To me one of the best sci-fi pictures of all time. Although I only remember seeing Raymond Massey as the head doctor of the Dr. Kildare television series of the 60's. I came across this movie first years ago when it was shown on TVO. Then our public library got it in on VHS. This to me is better because of what they had to work with. Some may or may not agree with me better then the Star Wars (although I am a fan of those) movies and alot of CGI of today. A masterpiece.


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Last night we convened at the Continental to celebrate Wordsoup's first anniversary and the launch of the new anthology, presented in little bundles done up with string – can't beat a bit of Julie Andrews wrapping! (Not to be confused with Julie Andrews rapping. 'I say super calli fragilistic expialidosious (one time – uh!)'
It was a fantastic night and I got to try out some of my new pieces: 'The Self Sufficient Opinion Grower' and 'Hen'.
There were a whole plethora of performances, I particularly enjoyed Rachel McGladdery's final piece, which I think was called 'My Dead Dad,' – the subject matter was risky, but executed and performed with total assurance and integrity. And Johnny5thWheel's music was fantastic: lyrical substance, a light touch on the strings and real energy. Wordy without being heavy! Yup – Instant fan.
Sarah Hymas treated us to a selection of poetry from a sequence in bedrock: really inspired to hear the narrative told through four generations; Socrates Adams did a fantastic piece about, well, shall we say, young parenthood; Norman Hadley not only performed but in a multi-tasking powerhouse recorded the whole night too – three cheers for Norm! Tom Fletcher read two extracts from The Leaping which I reckon is going to be the thing to read when summer is over and the winter starts to draw in like a Great Dark Thing.
And that's not to mention the Open Mic! Max Wallis, Sarah Fiske, Kev McVeigh, Dave, James Diable and his performing orange, Ron Baker, Pascal the Rascal and Mark Mace Smith.
And I came home with a tray of chips and a short story in a little blue book! Who could ask for anything more! But apparently extracts from the anthology are going to bus-stopped around the North West too and this continues from earlier in the week when Jane and Ruth donned balaclavas and projected extracts from the anthology in Preston and Lancaster, at the Harris Museum and Lancaster library respectively. Thanks guys!
For more info about the night and for details on buying the anthology, goto the Lancashire Writing Hub.
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Re: [MESA] Fwd: [OS] CT/PAKISTAN/US - Excerpts of Mullen Interviewon Pakistan
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Interview on Pakistan
I don't think this ever hit the analysts list, so figured i'd highlight
this after the blue sky discussion:
WSJ: Last week, you chastised Pakistan very publicly. What brought you --
Pakistan's best friend in the United States - to that point?
Adm. Mullen: I think the series of [attacks] from the Intercontinental
Hotel to the truck bomb where 77 of my troops got injured, to the attack
on our embassy and the links to Haqqani with respect to all of those
specific attacks, and the strategic support that the ISI [Pakistan's
Inter-Services Intelligence agency] has given over a long time [to]
Haqqani ... I am not one that believes the Pak mil [Pakistan's military]
or the ISI have complete control of Haqqani. But it's very clear that they
have supported them over time, and ... There's a ratcheted-up intensity.
I'm losing people, and I'm just not going to stand for that. ... I have
been Pakistan's best friend: What does it say when I'm at that point? What
does it say about where we are?
On 9/28/11 9:27 AM, Michael Wilson wrote:
Interview Excerpts: Adm. Mike Mullen
'I'm losing people, and I'm just not going to stand for that'
By JULIAN BARNES AND ADAM ENTOUS
The Wall Street Journal's Julian Barnes and Adam Entous talked with Adm.
Mike Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, this week about the
U.S. relationship with Pakistan, women in submarines and more. Read
selected excerpts from the interview. (Related article: How Pakistan
Lost Its Top U.S. Friend)
* * *
On Pakistan
The Wall Street Journal: You were a big advocate in the administration
early on in pushing for a strategic partnership with Pakistan. What do
you think of that concept today? And how has your thinking evolved on
Adm. Mullen: I think the enormity of the complexity of the region and
obviously the key countries there - Afghanistan, Pakistan - continues to
grow. And I continue to learn each time - I've been there, many, many
times. Each time I go, I learn more, but one of the things I learn more
is I have a lot more to learn.... I've worked as hard as I possibly
could to stay engaged to see if there was a way to shape this for a
better future in the region and obviously a better relationship. And I
think in both Afghanistan and Pakistan, having a long-term strategic
partnership or relationship, as I do in Iraq, is absolutely critical.
WSJ: Last week, you chastised Pakistan very publicly. What brought you
-- Pakistan's best friend in the United States - to that point?
Adm. Mullen: I think the series of [attacks] from the Intercontinental
Hotel to the truck bomb where 77 of my troops got injured, to the attack
on our embassy and the links to Haqqani with respect to all of those
specific attacks, and the strategic support that the ISI [Pakistan's
Inter-Services Intelligence agency] has given over a long time [to]
Haqqani ... I am not one that believes the Pak mil [Pakistan's military]
or the ISI have complete control of Haqqani. But it's very clear that
they have supported them over time, and ... There's a ratcheted-up
intensity. I'm losing people, and I'm just not going to stand for that.
... I have been Pakistan's best friend: What does it say when I'm at
that point? What does it say about where we are?
WSJ: Where does the effort to forge a long-term strategic partnership
with Pakistan now stand?
Adm. Mullen: I certainly think the case for it has been made much more
difficult by the series of events that we have been through... My view
is long term, we need to have that strategic relationship. But it's
long-term, and it is longer term now than it was just a few months ago.
* * *
On remaking the job of Chairman of the Joint Chiefs
WSJ: You have been more outspoken than other recent chairmen of the
Joint Chiefs. Did you come into the job thinking, I need to be a
different kind of chairman than the recent past? Is this something that
situations pushed you into?
Adm. Mullen: I think if you look back in my career before I was
chairman, I'm typically very active and very public. ... This is how I
There are two aspects of this job that are sacred, from my perspective.
One is the advice I give to the secretary of defense and the president,
and second is to represent the 2.2 million men and women of our military
and their families. What has been at the core of my leadership is to
understand what my people are going through.
You know, when you're a chief of a service, you get a microphone, but
your audience isn't very broad. The audience for the chairman is
national and global. I made a conscious decision to try and get things
done, make us visible. And in that regard, it's a big opportunity.
WSJ: When you took this job, is that something you wanted to do, to make
the chairman and the joint staff part of the effort to fix the wars in
Iraq and Afghanistan?
Adm. Mullen: Certainly I wanted to get it as right as I possibly could
in the wars. ... The first trip I took [as Chairman] was to get into
Iraq and Afghanistan and understand what's going on on the ground.
And one of the real takeaways from that was the under-resourced level
that we had in Afghanistan. We didn't have the right kind of MRAPs [mine
resistant armor protected vehicle] for them. As one sergeant said to me
at a luncheon that I had, the terrain is an enemy out here as well. A
couple of them talked about how the MRAPs couldn't get around because
they were so big and because the terrain is so difficult.
... Clearly we were short [of resources in Afghanistan]. And as I
reflect back on it now, it's very easy to see, very easy for me to see
how short we were. And it was that trip that led to my eventual public
discussion and public statements that we are short of what we need in
WSJ: Was the Pentagon not reacting quickly enough?
Adm. Mullen: Well, it wasn't just Pentagon. I think we all struggle with
this speed of war. I have said that for years that the enemy's speed was
better than ours. And we have gotten to a point now where we match them.
And in some cases we're ahead of them.
WSJ: The chairman is not in the chain of command, but even without being
in the chain of command, you thrust the Pentagon's Joint Staff into the
work of remaking war strategy.
Adm. Mullen: I'm not in the chain of command. I've got all that, but I'm
the senior military officer. ... Military officers understand that. I
work to establish relationships with COCOMs and service chiefs because I
spend half my life with the secretary of defense. None of them do. They
would like my view before they press in on something. They know I'm
going to be the guy to give advice.
* * *
On Civil-Military Relations
WSJ: You have made clear that military leaders must be apolitical and
respect civilian authority. Yet, in the Obama administration, there have
been some rough moments in civil-military relations. Some administration
officials accused the military of boxing them in on critical decisions
like the Afghanistan troop build-up. Where do you see civil-military
relations right now?
Adm. Mullen: This is a sacred trust issue for me, the civilian control
of the military and us being apolitical and staying out of it - out of
the politics. ... I like [former Army Chief of Staff and Secretary of
State George] Marshall a lot, and one of the themes of Marshall is, the
more you personally disagree with a policy, the harder you have to
absolutely advocate for it once the decision is made.
I understand that the president felt boxed in because of the leaks. And
one of the things that we were all learning at the time was how to
preserve decision space and options for the president. And when the
[Gen. Stanley] McChrystal assessment [on the war in Afghanistan] leaked,
that took away a lot of space or potentially took away a lot of space,
or certainly made the decision space much more difficult.
That said, even though there was a view that this was some kind of
concerted campaign on the part of the military, from my perspective,
nothing could have been further from the truth. That just didn't happen.
It did leak. It did take the space away. And certainly we all learned a
very difficult lesson, and since that time, you know, have, in many,
many decisions, have kept the decision-space issue as a priority. And I
think we've been able to do that through some very, very difficult
WSJ: Is it hard to do both -- preserve the decision space for the
president and also speak candidly to the public and Congress?
Adm. Mullen: Yes, it's very hard to do. ... It's an exceptionally
difficult part of the job. But that's what I get paid to do and I've
tried to do the best I possibly can since I've been chair.
* * *
On Gays in the Military and Women on Subs
WSJ: You pushed for gays to serve openly in the military and for women
to serve on subs . Were these goals you had when you came into the job?
Adm. Mullen: We've done a lot of work in the Navy before I ever got this
job to create a path for women in submarines. ... And for me, this is,
more than anything else, about talent. And I'd watched for years, I'd
watched the nuclear submariners fall short in the talent pool. Women are
about to, in the next few months, get on their first submarine. And I
think it's a big win for the Navy and for our military, quite frankly.
With respect to "Don't ask, don't tell" and gays and lesbians in the
military, I saw the issue potentially, surfacing based on what candidate
Obama had said in 2008. .. And so, from that point, certainly I started
working the issues here to try to understand it, and what it would mean
and what my position would be.
But it's the same thing. Quite frankly, it's a talent issue. It was
fundamentally an integrity issue. In that regard, it was pretty easy to
both get my head around and speak to when the time came.
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Director of Watch Officer Group, STRATFOR
(512) 744-4300 ex 4112
Michael Wilson
Director of Watch Officer Group, STRATFOR
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Admit it. A smartphone's appearance is just as important in your decision making process as the carrier, data speeds, OS and screen quality. No one wants a boring looking slab of a handset. To help you make the right call, we've rounded up the finest looking phones for your viewing pleasure.
We didn't think it was possible to make improve on the HTC One M7's looks, but HTC proved us wrong with its One M8. Sporting a larger 5-inch, 1080p display, the M8 offers a more rounded all-aluminum chassis that makes it sexier and more comfortable to hold than its predecessor. The M8's included Duo Camera lets users capture 3D-like photos and even change the focus of their images after shooting them. And with its quad-core Snapdragon 801 processor and 2GB of RAM, the One M8 is no slouch in the speed department, either.
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HTC one X is the most stylish
The Titan 2's design is uninspired, no Lumia 900? :'(
hey, a sony xperia deserves to be on this list
Where's the Lumia 900?
One X and S are both sexy, but GS III and IPhone are "meh." The Blackberry is…a blackberry…and the other HTC's are pretty standard nowadays. Droid Razr and Samsung Galaxy Nexus are good picks.
No Lumia 800 or 900 or Nokia N9 in this comparison. They are uber-stylish.
I love that the one X is on here, I love the design and I'm glad that I chose it, perfect!
Lumia 800 or 900??
where is HTC ONE V???
Shame that such a nice phone, was wasted on Windows mobile
HTC one x ….. Says it all.. chose it above the …s3
Simply HTC ONE X has no match.So sexy like Chtistins Zeta Johns.
and for long time hard to be beaten
Wow, the HTC ones are great, but I'd have put HTC One V somewhere here although I never saw one personally to compare. I didn't knew Titan II was also that pretty!
HTC ONE X only..superb n d most stylish fone..no 2nd thought..no doubt
htc One x
I like HTC one x………..It's so stylish n …….
HTC one X is so cute……. First of all put the phone and then….. Can you tell, for the any other one…..???
htc one x and one s is the most stylish
We all know HTC great but let's not forget the one who started it HTC EVO 4g its very styling to. For its time though
Where is Lumia? Is this just HTC chart with some random other phones for cover?
How about you try that again.
This time add the Lumia 920, Lumia 820, the HTC 8X and HTC 8S. THEN ask the same question!!!
The HTC One X is simply the prettiest. I own one myself and with a quad core Tegra processor it is really fast too
iPhone 5, hello? C'mon people. That's an easy #1
Shame shame. I thought here would be some good looking phones but no. Where the hell is beautyful phones ?? Where is sony xperia s ???
I think Sony Xperia Arc S deserves an entry to this list. I've been using it for a while and I'm finding it hard to switch to any other phone. This phone defined "style" for all the other phones, which they lacked at the beginning.
The review is all dammed wrong.
The best design for any smartphone now and for all to come, is nothing but the SONY XPERIA Z. Beautifully crafted from premium materials, synthetic ceramic and asahi dragontrail glass all throughout. No cheap aluminum and tempered glass of the apple iphone cheap class in here. And sony xperia z is the only smartphone so far that is beatifully engineered and yet water and dust proof in an ultra thin gorgeous design.
Blackberry Z10 design is good but not within xperia z class yet. But I must admit bb10 OS is the best. Android would come in at far second, then the rest would be occupied by some decrepit OS until you arrive at the lousiest apple phone os as last.
So to recapitulate. Sony xperia z is the best. A far cry second would be blackberry z10. And then the rest is just the rest.
Agree with Dangpet one hundred percent.
wherd is lumia 822?
The HTC First has a 4.3″ screen not a 5″ one. smh
hTC First is most Beautiful Mobile ever i Seen
OMG pls dont ever Tell Samsung is a Stylish Smartphone its Really awkward Boring Same old Design,,, many mobiles are there lik hTC One Sv , Sony Xperia s,,, this is bogus this Site should not Mentioned Samsung as among the Most Stylish Smartphones
Where's the Nokia N9 (white)
Seriously guys?! Samsung?! Samsung phones are not stylish at all, with the possible exceptioon of the first Samsung Star which isn't a smartphone. And where are the LG phones? The Prada, the Optimus 4XHD, the Optimus G and one of the L series? Also, let's not forget about Sony phones: the Xperia S, the Xperia Z, the Xprria Z1, the xperia Z Ultra. Even the Oppo Find 5 looks gorgeous,even if it's not that popular. THESE are among the most beautiful smartphones ever dsigned. Please consider making this list again, and if you do, make it proper.
1.Gresso Radical R1
2.Sony Experia Z
3.Iphone 5
4.HTC One
5.Samsung Galaxy Note 3
Where's Sony Xperia Z2
Hi there, I noticed that you have not added Sony's Xperia phones, especially the Z's – they incorporate the OmniBalance design.
…the most stylish phones are the Sony Xperia line. Glass, front and back, aluminum casing around the edges.
Hands down the most elegant, premium handsets.
Oh come on! Where's the Gionee Elife S5.5? Thought this was most stylish smartphones, not most stylish smartphone except from a really sexy, slim phone just because it's made by China? PHONRACIST! Jks, but seriously, it's probably the hottest phone around.
You guys are totally retarded, where is Sony with Z line?
If you're going to write an article about the most stylish smartphones, please first get a person who knows what "style" is. Thanks.


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