8And the foolish said unto the wise, Give us of your oil; for our lamps are gone out.
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The light of the righteous rejoiceth: but the lamp of the wicked shall be put out.
Let your loins be girded about, and your lights burning;
Let us therefore fear, lest, a promise being left us of entering into his rest, any of you should seem to come short of it.
But he that received the seed into stony places, the same is he that heareth the word, and anon with joy receiveth it; …
Behold, I will make them of the synagogue of Satan, which say they are Jews, and are not, but do lie; behold, I will make them to come and worship before thy feet, and to know that I have loved thee.
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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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