title: Application Commentary of the Gospel of Matthew, 2017 Revised Edition
author:  John Strohman J.D. 
description: The most distinguishing feature of the Author is that he is a sinner who, in his early youth, was saved from the judgment to come by the grace of God. He continues to recognize his complete reliance on the mercy, forgiveness and grace of Jesus Christ to this very moment. *Other matters: John M. Strohman is a graduate of the University of Iowa College of Business and earned his Juris Doctor from the University of South Dakota School of Law. For over two decades he has served as an Assistant Attorney General for the State of South Dakota. As an attorney with nearly 30 years of experience, he has handled a variety of cases, including serving as counsel for more than 170 cases before the South Dakota Supreme Court. John has also held faculty positions as an adjunct professor for Liberty University, South Dakota State University, Northern State University and Colorado Christian University. His teaching experience has spanned both the undergraduate and graduate level. In 2014 he authored The Fake Commission. He has served on mission boards and is the current chairman of Cross Centered Missions. John and his wife, Sarah, share a passion for equipping young people in Christian service through discipleship, Sunday school, Bible studies and leading short-term mission trips.
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  HOMILETICAL COMlVIENTARY 
  ON THE 
  GOSPEL ACCORDING TO 
  ST. MATTHEW 
  BY 
  REV·. W. SUNDERLAND LEWIS, M.A. 
  AND 
  REV. HENRY M. BOOTH 
  Printed in the U.S.A. 
  FUNK & W AGNALLS COMPANY 
  LONDON AND TORONTO 
  1896 
  
  PROVO, UTA~ 
  
  THE 
  PREACHER'S HOMILETICAL COMMENTARY. 
  ST. MATTHEW. 
  • 
  INTRODUCTION. 
  I. The Author.-1. The man.-The name of Matthew occurs in the four lists 
  of the Apostles : Matt. x. 3; Mark iii. 18; Luke vi. 15; Acts i. 13. He is 
  usually identified with Levi, for what is in the First Gospel (ix. 9) related of 
  Matthew, is in Mark (ii. 14) and Luke (v. 27) told of Levi. To change the 
  name on some life-changing occasion was not uncommon, and Levi may have 
  taken the name of Matthew at his call; or, as is rather implied in the First 
  Gospel, he may have had it earlier, to distinguish him from the many others 
  called Levi. 
  Neither Mark nor Luke, however, intimates that he whose name 
  appears in their apostolic lists as Matthew is the same person as the L