Is required (azaitodcw). Lit., they require; i.e., the mes- sengers of God. The indefiniteness is impressive.
Whose shall those things be which thou hast pros vided 2? The Greek order puts that first which was upper- most in the rich man’s thought—/is acowmulations: “and the things which thow hast provided (Rev., prepared), whose shall they be?” God does not say, “the things which thou hast or possessest.” The whole question of the tenure of his prop- erty is opened for the rich man. He had said my fruits
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and my goods. Now his proprietorship is ignored. They are not his. Whose shall they be? Ile is to be dispossessed at once. Plato relates how Pluto complained to Zeus that the souls of the dead found their way to the wrong places, be- cause the judged have their clothes on, and evil souls are clothed in fair bodies, so that the judges, who also have their clothes on and their souls veiled by their mortal part, are de- ceived. Zeus replies: “In the first place, I will deprive men of the foreknowledge of death which they now have. In the second place, they shall be entirely stripped before they are judged, for they shall be judged when they are dead; and the judge, too, shall be naked ; that is to say, dead. He, with his naked soul, shall pierce into the other naked soul, and they shall die suddenly and be deprived of all their kindred, and leave their brave attire strewn upon the earth ” (“ Gorgias,” 523).
22. Take no thought. See on Matt. vi. 25.) . 24. Consider. See on Matt. vii. 3. Storehouse (rayetov). See on ver. 3.
25. Stature (jAvciav). The original meaning of the word is time of life, age. So, commonly, in classical Greek. See, also, John ix. 21, 23; Heb. xi. 11. The other meaning, statwre, also occurs. Herodotus speaks of one who was of the same height (jAccujv) with another (iii. 16). But both the usage and the connection are in favor of the meaning age. A measure of time is sometimes represented by a measure of length, as in Ps. xxxix. 5; but, most of all, the addition of a cubit (a foot and a half) to one’s stature would not be a small one, as the text im- plies (that which ds least), but a very large one. Moreover, Christ is speaking of food and clothing, the object of which is to foster and prolong life. Rev., age, in margin.
27. How they grow. Some texts omit they grow, and read how they toil not, ete.
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Toil—spin («omid—v7j3er). Some read, instead of toil, idai- VEL, WEAVE.
28. Which is to-day in the field. Construe én the field with the grass; and render is absolutely : exists, lives. So Rev., the grass in the field which to-day is.
Oven (kriBavov). Strictly, a covered earthen vessel, wider at bottom than at top, in which bread was baked by putting hot embers round it. The regular oven or furnace is évds. Herod- otus, speaking of the papyrus-plant (dyddus), the lower portion of which is used for food, says, “Such as wish to enjoy the by- blus in full perfection, bake it first in a closed vessel (év khuBdvq), heated to a glow” (ii., 92).
And seek not what ye, etc. Ye is emphatic: “and ye, seek not what,” ete.
29. Be ye of doubtful mind (yerewpifecSe). Only here in New Testament. The verb primarily means to raise to a height ; buoy wp, as with false hopes; and so to wnsettle, or excite, or keep in fluctuation. Thus Thucydides says of the war between Athens and Sparta: “ All Hellas was excited (wetéwpos) by the coming conflict between the two chief cities” (ii., 8).
33. Bags (PaddAdv7ia). From Banda, to throw. Something into which money and other things are cast. Rev., purses. See onch. x. 4. Wyc., satchels.