Musings of a Snickerdoodle

This is a commentary majoring on the application of the texts of Matthew. It sometimes applies and assumes more than it exegetes.    The application being rather forced at times, it often seemed as though insights were applied to, rather than derived from, the text(would that make them outsights?).   I know that typification is practiced in many commentaries, but I guess that I just didn't expect this much from a person with dispensational views.   For instance, in speaking of the Demoniac in Mathew 17,Phillips says that the boy is " a picture of the people in the world today who are in the grip of evil spirits and enslaving, tormenting lusts….he was his father's only son, a fact mentioned perhaps to remind us of the heavenly Father's only Son, who had just been acknowledged on high.   The boy's father felt that the disciples (representing the church) ought to be able to help…The world ignores the church partly because of its   evident lack of power i...