NOTES for Luk 21:34-36
34 And take heed to yourselves, lest at any time your hearts be overcharged with surfeiting, and drunkenness, and cares of this life, and so that day come upon you unawares. |
35 For as a snare shall it come on all them that dwell on the face of the whole earth. |
36 Watch ye therefore, and pray always, that ye may be accounted worthy to escape all these things that shall come to pass, and to stand before the Son of man. |
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The Lord calls the disciples to restrain themselves so that their hearts will not be weighed down by worldly cares. He says that dependence on the flesh, attachment to eating and drunkenness, and anxiety over worldly affairs bend a person down to the earth like a burden and do not let him not only rise toward heaven, but even remember it and look at it. The effort of fasting is directed precisely toward holding oneself back from this captivity. And further the Lord says that the day of meeting God will come upon us like a net. In the original stands a word meaning a trap, a snare. One can escape this net, says the Lord, only by being free from this oppressive weight of momentary cares.
Remarkable is the goal of watchfulness and prayer that the Lord offers the disciples: that you may be able, or in other versions "be counted worthy," to escape what is coming and to stand before the Son of Man. This is a very precise and clear setting of the goal.
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