CMP Review 2025-09-28

In his commentary on the Gospel of Luke, D. L. Block assigns a title to the section from 17:1 to 17:10. He calls it “False Teaching, Forgiveness, Faith and Service.” He explains: “This short section highlights four aspects of discipleship. It is hard to be certain if these four characteristics are simply listed or whether there is some relationship between them.”

Charlotte Mason was determined to pursue a “synthetic study of the life and teaching of Christ.” She believed with all her heart that “if we could only get a whole conception of Christ’s life among men, and of the philosophic method of His teaching, His own word should be fulfilled, and the Son of Man, lifted up, would draw all men unto Himself.”

Therefore it goes without saying that Charlotte Mason sought (and found) a connection between these verses in the Gospel of Luke. But she did not lift the pen of an expositor to explain the links. Rather, she sought the pen of a poet. Read or hear her poem on verses 3 and 4 and see how Mason observed the philosophic method of our Lord. Find it here.

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🖼️: Joseph’s brothers beg forgiveness; Joseph blesses them, Illuminated manuscript, Weltchronik