29For I know this, that after my departing shall grievous wolves enter in among you, not sparing the flock.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves.
But there were false prophets also among the people, even as there shall be false teachers among you, who privily shall bring in damnable heresies, even denying the Lord that bought them, and bring upon themselves swift destruction.
But he that is an hireling, and not the shepherd, whose own the sheep are not, seeth the wolf coming, and leaveth the sheep, and fleeth: and the wolf catcheth them, and scattereth the sheep.
Go your ways: behold, I send you forth as lambs among wolves.
Take heed therefore unto yourselves, and to all the flock, over the which the Holy Ghost hath made you overseers, to feed the church of God, which he hath purchased with his own blood.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 17-35)It should seem the ship Paul and his companions were embarked in for Jerusalem attended him on purpose, and staid or moved as he pleased; for when he came to Miletus, he went ashore, and tarried thee so long as to send for the elders of Ephesus to come to him thither; for if he had gone up to Ephesus, he could never have got away from them. These elders, or presbyters, some think, were those twelv…
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