Luke 12:27
Consider the lilies how they grow: they toil not, they spin not; and yet I say unto you, that Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.
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Gill's Exposition
Consider the lilies how they grow,.... Some copies read, "the lilies of the field", as in Mat 6:28 The Persic version renders the word, "the roses and lilies of the field": and the Arabic version, the…
Our Lord Jesus is here inculcating some needful useful lessons upon his disciples, which he had before taught them, and had occasion afterwards to press upon them; for they need to have precept upon…
Academic commentary, 1882–1921
Cambridge Bible
the lilies The term is perfectly general. The scarlet anemones (anemone coronaria), or the -Huleh lilies" growing around may have given point to the lesson. (Thomson, Land and Book, p. 256.)
Solomon…
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