And take heed to yourselves, lest at any time your hearts be overcharged with surfeiting, and drunkenness, and cares of this life, and so that day come upon you unawares.
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The account of the destruction of Jerusalem contained in this chapter has been fully considered in the notes at Matt. 24. All that will be necessary here will be an explanation of a few words that did…
Adam Clarke
Take heed to yourselves - See our Lord's parable, relative to this matter, explained, Mar 13:34 (note).
Be overcharged - Literally, be made heavy, as is generally the case with those who have eaten or…
Here, in the close of this discourse,
I. Christ appoints his disciples to observe the signs of the times, which they might judge by, if they had an eye to the foregoing directions, with as much…
Cambridge Bible
surfeiting The headache after drunkenness. Lat. crapula.
drunkenness Comp. Rom 13:13. Hence the exhortation "be sober," nepsate,1Pe 4:7; 1Th 5:6.
cares of this life Comp. Mat 13:22 .The surfeit of…
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