will make him ruler over all that he hath. 45 'But and if that servant say in his heart, My lord delayeth his coming; and shall begin to "beat the men servants and maidens, and to eat, and drink, and to be drunken;

46 The lord of that servant will come in a day when he looketh not for him, and at an hour when he is not aware, and will 'cut him in sunder,21 and will appoint him his portion with the unbelievers.

47 And that "servant, which knew his lord's will, and prepared not himself, neither did according to his will, shall be beaten with many stripes.

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48 But he that 'knew not, and did commit

21 cut him off. See MAT. xxiv. 51, A. V.

* MAT. xxiv. 48, &c: But and if that evil servant shall say in his heart, My lord delayeth his coming, &c.

" MAT. xxii. 6: And the remnant took his servants, treated them spitefully, and slew them.

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▾ Ps. xxxvii. 9: For evil-doers shall be cut off: but those that wait upon the LORD, they shall inherit the earth. do. xciv. 23: And he shall bring upon them their own iniquity, and shall cut them off in their own wickedness; yea, the LORD our God shall cut them off. MAT. xxiv. 51: Shall cut him asunder, and appoint him his portion with the hypocrites: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.

wNUM. XV.30: The soul that doeth aught presumptuously,the same reproacheth the LORD; and that soul shall be cut off from among his people. JOHN, ix. 41: Jesus said unto them, If ye were blind, ye should have no sin; but now ye say, We see; therefore your sin remaineth. do. xv. 22: If I had not come and spoken unto them, they had not had sin; but now they have no cloke for their sin. ACTs, xvii. 30: And the times of this ignorance God winked at; but now mandeth all men every where to repent. JAMES, iv. 17: To him that knoweth to do good, and doeth it not, to him it is sin.

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* DEUT. xxv. 2: It shall be, if the wicked man be worthy to be beaten, that the judge shall cause him to lie down, and to be beaten before his face, according to his fault, by a certain number.

y LEV. v. 17: If a soul sin, and commit any of these things

things worthy of stripes, shall be beaten with few stripes. For unto whomsoever much is given, of him shall be much required: and to whom men "have committed much, of him they will ask the

more.

49¶I am come to send fire on the earth; and what will I, if it be already kindled?

50 But I have a 'baptism to be baptized with; and how am I straitened 22 till it be accomplished! 51 Suppose ye that I am come to give peace on earth? I tell you, Nay; but rather division: 52 For from henceforth there shall be five in

22 pained. A. V.

which are forbidden to be done by the commandments of the LORD, though he wist it not, yet is he guilty, and shall bear his iniquity. JOHN, ix. 41: The words under ver. 47. 1 TIM. i. 13: I obtained mercy, because I did it ignorantly in unbelief.

21 TIM. vi. 20: O Timothy, keep that which is committed to thy trust, avoiding profane and vain babblings, and oppositions of science falsely so called.

a Ver. 51.

MAT. XX. 22: Are ye able to drink of the cup that I shall drink of, and to be baptized with the baptism that I am baptized with? MARK, X. 38: But Jesus said unto them, Ye know not what ye ask: : can ye drink of the cup that I drink of? and be baptized with the baptism that I am baptized with? • See on MAT. x. 34.

d Mic. vii. 6: The son dishonoureth the father, the daughter riseth up against her mother, the daughter in law against her mother in law; a man's enemies are the men of his own house. 2 ESD. v. 9: Salt waters shall be found in the sweet, and all friends shall destroy one another. do. vi. 24: At that time shall friends fight one against another like enemies. JOHN, vii. 43: So there was a division among the people because of him. do. ix. 16: Therefore said some of the Pharisees, This man is not of God, because he keepeth not the sabbath day. Others said, How can a man that is a sinner do such miracles? And there was a division among them. do. x. 19: There was a division therefore again among the Jews.

e MAT. x. 35: For I am come to set a man at variance against his father, and the daughter against her mother, and the daughter in law against her mother in law.