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5:1 Rebuke not - Considering your own youth, with such a severity as would otherwise be proper.

5:3 Honour - That is, maintain out of the public stock.

5:4 Let these learn to requite their parents - For all their former care, trouble, and expense.

5:5 Widows indeed - Who have no near relations to provide for them; and who are wholly devoted to God. Desolate - Having neither children, nor grandchildren to relieve her.

5:6 She that liveth in pleasure - Delicately, voluptuously, in elegant, regular sensuality, though not in the use of any such pleasures as are unlawful in themselves.

5:7 That they - That is, the widows.

5:8 If any provide not - Food and raiment. For his own - Mother and grandmother, being desolate widows. He hath - Virtually. Denied the faith - Which does not destroy, but perfect, natural duties. What has this to do with heaping up money for our children, for which it is often so impertinently alleged? But all men have their reasons for laying up money. One will go to hell for fear of want; another acts like a heathen, lest he should be worse than an infidel.

5:9 Let not a widow be chosen - Into the number of deaconesses, who attended sick women or travelling preachers.Under threescore - Afterwards they were admitted at forty, if they were eminent for holiness. Having been the wife of one husband - That is, having lived in lawful marriage, whether with one or more persons successively.

5:10 If she hath washed the feet of the saints - Has been ready to do the meanest offices for them.

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17:20 The kingdom of God cometh not with observation - With such outward pomp as draws the observation of every one.

17:21 Neither shall they say, Lo here, or lo there - This shall not be the language of those who are, or shall be sent by me, to declare the coming of my kingdom. For behold the kingdom of God is within or among you - Look not for it in distant times or remote places: it is now in the midst of you: it is come: it is present in the soul of every true believer: it is a spiritual kingdom, an internal principle. Wherever it exists, it exists in the heart.

17:22 Ye shall desire to see one of the days of the Son of man - One day of mercy. or one day wherein you might converse with me, as you do now.

17:23 They shall say, See, Christ is here, or there - Limiting his presence to this or that place. Mat 24:23.

17:24 So shall also the Son of man be - So swift, so wide, shall his appearing be: In his day - The last day.