8And the lord commended the unjust steward, because he had done wisely: for the children of this world are in their generation wiser than the children of light.
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Ye are all the children of light, and the children of the day: we are not of the night, nor of darkness.
For ye were sometimes darkness, but now are ye light in the Lord: walk as children of light:
Go to the ant, thou sluggard; consider her ways, and be wise: …
He that is faithful in that which is least is faithful also in much: and he that is unjust in the least is unjust also in much.
While ye have light, believe in the light, that ye may be the children of light. These things spake Jesus, and departed, and did hide himself from them.
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-18)We mistake if we imagine that the design of Christ’s doctrine and holy religion was either to amuse us with notions of divine mysteries or to entertain us with notions of divine mercies. No, the divine revelation of both these in the gospel is intended to engage and quicken us to the practice of Christian duties, and, as much as any one thing, to the duty of beneficence and doing good to those who…
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