Consider the lilies, how they grow: they neither toil nor spin, yet I tell you, even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.
Our Lord Jesus is here inculcating some needful useful lessons upon his disciples, which he had before taught them, and had occasion afterwards to press upon them; for they need to have precept upon precept, and line upon line: "Therefore, because there are so many that are ruined by covetousness, and an inordinate affection to the wealth of this world, I say unto you, my...
Commenting on Luke 12:22-40
Consider the lilies how they grow,.... Some copies read, "the lilies of the field", as in Mat 6:28 The Persic version renders the word, "the roses and lilies of the field": and the Arabic version, the "flowers"; any flowers of the field; for what is afterwards said, is true of any of them, but particularly of the lilies: now, as the former instance of God's...
Here stands a man violated by his own brother, withheld from his rightful inheritance, yet he intrudes this case upon our Lord's teaching with profound irreverence. He has not the least idea that such matters are unworthy of Christ's attention compared to the things He came to teach.
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Commenting on Luke 12:13-53