36Lest coming suddenly he find you sleeping.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Therefore let us not sleep, as do others; but let us watch and be sober. …
And that, knowing the time, that now it is high time to awake out of sleep: for now is our salvation nearer than when we believed. …
And when he returned, he found them asleep again,(for their eyes were heavy,) neither wist they what to answer him.
But and if that evil servant shall say in his heart, My lord delayeth his coming; …
While the bridegroom tarried, they all slumbered and slept.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 28-37)We have here the application of this prophetical sermon; now learn to look forward in a right manner. I. “As to the destruction of Jerusalem, expect it to come very shortly ; as when the branch of the fig-tree becomes soft , and the leaves sprout forth , ye expect that summer will come shortly, Mark 13:28. When second causes begin to work, ye expect their effects in their proper order and time. So…
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