20The harvest is past, the summer is ended, and we are not saved.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Then shall the kingdom of heaven be likened unto ten virgins, which took their lamps, and went forth to meet the bridegroom. …
When once the master of the house is risen up, and hath shut to the door, and ye begin to stand without, and to knock at the door, saying, Lord, Lord, open unto us; and he shall answer and say unto you, I know you not whence ye are:
He that gathereth in summer is a wise son: but he that sleepeth in harvest is a son that causeth shame.
And shall lay thee even with the ground, and thy children within thee; and they shall not leave in thee one stone upon another; because thou knewest not the time of thy visitation.
Wherefore(as the Holy Ghost saith, To day if ye will hear his voice, …
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 13-22)In these verses we have, I. God threatening the destruction of a sinful people. He has borne long with them, but they are still more and more provoking, and therefore now their ruin is resolved on: I will surely consume them (Jer. 8:13), consuming I will consume them , not only surely, but utterly, consume them, will follow them with one judgment after another, till they are quite consumed; it is…
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