18Whoso keepeth the fig tree shall eat the fruit thereof: so he that waiteth on his master shall be honoured.
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The husbandman that laboureth must be first partaker of the fruits.
Who goeth a warfare any time at his own charges? who planteth a vineyard, and eateth not of the fruit thereof? or who feedeth a flock, and eateth not of the milk of the flock?
My vineyard, which is mine, is before me: thou, O Solomon, must have a thousand, and those that keep the fruit thereof two hundred.
If any man serve me, let him follow me; and where I am, there shall also my servant be: if any man serve me, him will my Father honour.
Blessed are those servants, whom the lord when he cometh shall find watching: verily I say unto you, that he shall gird himself, and make them to sit down to meat, and will come forth and serve them.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 18)This is designed to encourage diligence, faithfulness, and constancy, even in mean employments. Though the calling be laborious and despicable, yet those who keep to it will find there is something to be got by it. 1. Let not a poor gardener, who keeps the fig-tree , be discouraged; though it require constant care and attendance to nurse up fig-trees, and, when they have grown to maturity, to keep…
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