Kingdom of Heaven like a Treasure
Lenski Commentary on Matthew 13 The Parable of the treasure, makes a turn from how the kingdom is bestowed and operates to "Now Jesus shows how [the kingdom] is acquired." In Conclusion Lenski writes, "We are to understand the imagery properly and must stop where it stops and not go beyond. Thus the buying of the pearl does not deprive another man of its use; for though the pearl is but 'one,' everyone of us is to buy it and to own it irrespective of others. There is nothing in this parable which corresponds to the field in the other, the Word being sufficiently illustrated there." Lenski places the man and the merchant as each individual Christian. Each of us is then to give of ourselves in order to buy the kingdom of heaven, or the treasures of salvation. "The Scriptures know of two extraordinary ways of buying: one is, without money or price, Isa. 55:1; Rev. 21:6; the other is to give up for the sake of the eternal treasures of God all that would pre...