5While the bridegroom tarried, they all slumbered and slept.
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For the vision is yet for an appointed time, but at the end it shall speak, and not lie: though it tarry, wait for it; because it will surely come, it will not tarry.
Therefore let us not sleep, as do others; but let us watch and be sober. …
And saying, Where is the promise of his coming? for since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation. …
But and if that evil servant shall say in his heart, My lord delayeth his coming;
Then began he to speak to the people this parable; A certain man planted a vineyard, and let it forth to husbandmen, and went into a far country for a long time.
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-13)Here, I. That in general which is to be illustrated is, the kingdom of heaven , the state of things under the gospel, the external kingdom of Christ, and the administration and success of it. Some of Christ’s parables had shown us what it is like now in the present reception of it, as Matt. 13:1-52 This tells us what it shall be like, when the mystery of God shall be finished, and that kingdom del…
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