“Why do you ask Me about what is good?” Jesus replied. “There is only One who is good. If you want to enter life, keep the commandments.”
Christ did not intend to hint at His Divinity here, but to maintain the authority of His doctrine. When the young man calls Him a good Master while denying He comes from God, he speaks falsely; goodness belongs properly to God alone, and Christ directs him to acknowledge divine truth. To keep the commandments means to understand what the Law requires, not to merit eternal life by works.
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He was good, both as God and man; but this young man considered Him only as a mere man and spoke without understanding. Christ questions him to instruct him in His proper Deity by his own words and reason. There is none good but one, that is God, who is originally, essentially, and infinitely good; no mere creature can be said the same.
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You give me a title that belongs only to God, yet you suppose me to be only a man. This is a severe reproof of a foolish habit of flattery and pompous titles applied carelessly to those who deserve them not. Keep the commandments means to do what God has commanded, and Christ speaks this to try him and expose that he has not kept them at all.
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