And why take ye thought for raiment? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin:
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Gill's Exposition
And yet I say unto you, that even Solomon in all his glory,.... This is a certain truth, to be affirmed in the strongest manner, and to be believed, that not only men and kings too in general; but…
Consider the lilies of the field - The fourth consideration is taken from the care which God bestows on lilies. Watch the growing of the lily. It toils not, and it spins not; yet night and day it…
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,…
Cambridge Bible
for raiment The birds are an example of God's care in providing food, the flowers of His care in providing apparel.
the lilies of the field identified by Dr Thomson (Land and Book, p. 256), with a…
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