...' Jlaml. i! They are ineonsistent and perverse. 70 ST. MATTHEW. ' • " "' . • fr We- have piped unto you, and ye have not danced ; we have mourned unto you, and ye 18 have not lamented. For John came neither eating nor drinking, and they say, He hath a 19 devil.*...

...like to children sitting in the markets, and calling to their companions, 17. Saying, We have piped to you, and ye have not danced; we have mourned unto you, and ye have not lamented. 18. For John came neither eating nor drinking, and they say, He hath a devil. 19. The Messiah came...

...Calmet'.i Commentary. f * The words of our Saviour, to illustrate this, are these,—" We have piped unto you, and ye have not danced ; we have mourned unto you, and ye have not lamented," Matth. xi. 17. which seem to be a proverb founded upon a custom among the Jewish children, to imitate...

...and a winebibber, ba friend of л».< An. oiymp. fellows, C( Г 3 — 17 And saying, We have piped unto you, and ye have not danced ; we have mourned unto you, and ye have not lamented. 18 For John came neither eating nor drinking, and they say, * He hath a devil. 19 The Son of Man came...

...Husbandmen, and the Marriage Supper. It is intimated also in those remarkable words ; " We have piped unto you, and ye have not danced : we have mourned unto you, and ye have not lamented ;" as if he had said — ' Neither the calls of mercy, nor the denunciations of judgment, produce their...

...like unto children sitting in the markets, and calling unto their fellows, and saying, W^e have piped unto you, and ye have not danced ; we have mourned unto you, and ye have Luke xiii. not lamented. Or again : O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, which killest the prophets, and stonest...

...children sitting in the market-places, and calling to their 17 companions ', and saying, ' We have piped unto you, and ye have not danced ; we have mourned unto you, and ye have 18 not lamented.' For John came neither eating nor drinking; 19 and men say, ' He hath a demon2.' The...

...like unto children sitting in the markets, and calling unto their fellows, and saying, We have piped unto you, and ye have not danced ; we have mourned unto you, and ye have not lamented. Or again : O Jerusalem, Jerusa- Luke xiii. • 34v lem, which killest the prophets, and stonest them...

...like unto children sitting in the markets, and calling unto their fellows, and saying, we have piped unto you, and ye have not danced ; we have mourned unto you, and ye have not lamented." It is difficult to please people who are determined to dissent, or to convince those whose humour is...

...well as edifying, profitable as well as pleasing ; that we may not have to complain, ' We have piped unto you, and ye have not danced ; we have mourned unto you, and ye have not lamented.' But, after all, our periodical literature can never be successful unless it be practically regarded,...