33Yet a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep:
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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. …
Give not sleep to thine eyes, nor slumber to thine eyelids. …
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.
Wherefore he saith, Awake thou that sleepest, and arise from the dead, and Christ shall give thee light.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 30-34)Here is, 1. The view which Solomon took of the field and vineyard of the slothful man. He did not go on purpose to see it, but, as he passed by, observing the fruitfulness of the ground, as it is very proper for travellers to do, and his subjects’ management of their land, as it is very proper for magistrates to do, he cast his eye upon a field and a vineyard unlike all the rest; for, though the s…
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