| Susannah Henderson - 1837 - 426 oldal
...Virgins, and the Talents. 43. What did our Lord say further, to show the necessity of watchfulness ? " But know this, that if the good man of the house had...would not have suffered his house to be broken up." What is the truth taught in these words? That when men are aware of danger, they always watch and guard... | |
| 1837 - 554 oldal
...taken, and the other left. 42 If Watch therefore : for ye know not what hour your Lord doth come. 43 Bat know this, that if the good man of the house had known...would not have suffered his house to be broken up. 44 Therefore be ye also ready : for in such an hour as ye think not the Son of man cometh. 45 Who then... | |
| David M'Nicoll - 1837 - 688 oldal
...attention by the voice of God himself? By temporal things we are deeply affected, but not by eternal. " If the good man of the house had known in what watch...would not have suffered his house to be broken up ;" and all this to save some wretched quantity of goods and chattels, or, at most, his temporal life.... | |
| Thomas Adam - 1837 - 440 oldal
...all about you. Alas ! how few are in such a state of watching! 43. But know this, that if the goodman of the house had known in what watch the thief would...would not have suffered his house to be broken up. knew they were in danger. It is a melancholy consider-ation, and what our Lord is here lamenting, that... | |
| John Elliot Palmer - 1838 - 252 oldal
...thief in the night.'i Jesus uses similar language, when speaking of his coming, already mentioned : ' Watch therefore ; for ye know not what hour your Lord...broken up. Therefore be ye also ready ; for in such an hour as ye think not, the Son of man cometh.'2 As we find such a striking similarity in expression,... | |
| John Pring - 1838 - 588 oldal
...approach, we might summon our aid ; or if no aid was near, our resolution at least, to meet him. And " if the good man of the house had known in what watch...would not have suffered his house to be broken up." (Matt. xxiv. 43.) " But of that day and that hour knoweth no man." (Mark xiii. 32.) Of other " things... | |
| William Webb Ellis - 1838 - 352 oldal
...cometh." When our Lord compares his coming to the sudden approach of a thief in the night, he says, " if the good man of " the house had known in what watch...would " not have suffered his house to be broken up." And this might seem to suggest, at first sight, the idea, that if each man did know the appointed time... | |
| New Church preacher - 1839 - 784 oldal
...generally unexpected is intimated in the Gospel, when the Lord says, " Know this, that if the goodman of the house had known in what watch the thief would...would not have suffered his house to be broken up," concluding by a solemn warning, to watch and be ready. Nor does the awful state in which man is at... | |
| 1839 - 496 oldal
...thieves break through and steal." — Matt. vi. 19. " But know this, that if the good man ofthehouse had known in what watch the thief would come, he would...would not have suffered his house to be broken up." — Matt. xxiv. 43. THERE are some expressions in this -caution given by our blessed Lord, which require... | |
| George Emlen Hare - 1840 - 146 oldal
...should deliver but their own souls by their righteousness." LECTURE IV. MATTHEW xxiv. 42 — xxv. 13. " Watch, therefore; for ye know not what hour your Lord...watched, and would not have suffered his house to be hroken up. Therefore be ye also ready : for in such an hour as ye think not, the Son of man cometh.... | |
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