...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...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...occasion to the complaint, which at last became a proverbial mode of speech ; " We have piped unto you, and ye have not danced ; we have mourned unto you, and ye have not lamented." This proverb our Lord applies to the pharisees, to show that the divine wisdom had in vain employed...

...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,...

...unto children sitting in the market-place, and calling one to another, and saying, We have piped unto you, and ye have not danced ; we have mourned unto you, and ye have not wept." U , M. MACBRAIR. A TURKISH TEACHER. JAN. 19TH. — I had a long and very interesting conversation...

...iiiin.Jici. anil culling unto their fellows, atid saying unto them, ne have piped unto you afld ye havfe not danced, we have mourned unto you and ye have not lamented. For John came neither eating nor drinking., and they say he hath a devil. The Son of man came mating...