Matthew 6:27

And why take ye thought for raiment,.... Having exposed the folly of an anxious and immoderate care and thought, for food to support and prolong life, our Lord proceeds to show the vanity of an over…

Which of you, by taking thought - The third argument is taken from their extreme weakness and helplessness. With all your care you cannot increase your stature a single cubit. God has ordered your…

There is scarcely any one sin against which our Lord Jesus more largely and earnestly warns his disciples, or against which he arms them with more variety of arguments, than the sin of disquieting,…

can add one cubit unto his stature As the word translated "stature" also=duration of life, the meaning may be "add a cubit to his life." Comp. Psa 39:6 (P. B.), "Thou hast made my days as it were a…