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- Matthew
- Chapter 24
- Verse 49
Matthew 24:49
And shall begin to smite his fellowservants, and to eat and drink with the drunken;
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Commentary
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Baptist theologian, 1697–1771
Gill's Exposition
The lord of that servant,.... Not by redemption and grace, but by creation and profession,
shall come in a day when he looked not for him, and in an hour that he is not aware of: suddenly and…
This passage is, in fact, “a parable,” though it is not expressly so called. The design is to show that his disciples should act as if they were each moment expecting his return. This he illustrates…
The Stewards of God
Luk 12:41-48, where this parable is joined on to the preceding one by a question of St Peter, "Lord, speakest thou this parable unto us, or even to all?" Mar 13:37 has "what I say…
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