28For I have five brethren; that he may testify unto them, lest they also come into this place of torment.
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And with many other words did he testify and exhort, saying, Save yourselves from this untoward generation.
Nevertheless man being in honour abideth not: he is like the beasts that perish. …
That no man go beyond and defraud his brother in any matter: because that the Lord is the avenger of all such, as we also have forewarned you and testified.
Save that the Holy Ghost witnesseth in every city, saying that bonds and afflictions abide me.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 19-31)As the parable of the prodigal son set before us the grace of the gospel, which is encouraging to us all, so this sets before us the wrath to come , and is designed for our awakening; and very fast asleep those are in sin that will not be awakened by it. The Pharisees made a jest of Christ’s sermon against worldliness; now this parable was intended to make those mockers serious. The tendency of th…
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