...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...watched, and 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...

...hid that shall not be known. 24:42. Watch therefore; for ye know not what hour your Lord doth come. But know this, that if the good man of the house had...watched, and would not have suffered his house to he broken up. Therefore be ye also ready : for in such an hour as ye think not, the Son of man cometh....

...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...watched, and 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....

...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...watched, and 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...

...hid that shall not be known. 24:42. Watch therefore; for ye know not what hour your Lord doth come. But know this, that if the good man of the house had...would come, he. would have watched, and would not hnve suffered his house to be broken up. Therefore be ye also ready : for in such an hour as ye think...

...taken up to glory, the other shall be, as a reprobate, left to everlasting confusion. So verse 41. XXIV. 43. But know this, that if the good man of the...in what watch the thief would come, he would have tvatched, and would not have suffered his house to be broken np. Ye are forewarned, and therefore fail...

...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...watched, and 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,...

...his coming, already mentioned : ' Watch therefore ; for ye know not what hour your Lord doth come. But know this, that if the good man of the house had...watched, and would not have suffered his house to be broken up. Therefore be ye also ready ; for in such an hour as ye think not, the Son of man cometh.'2...

...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...watched, and 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...

...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...watched, and 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...