...your departure is drawing on, and with some of you may be very near at hand. " Let your loins then be girded about, and your lights burning ; and ye yourselves like unto men that wait for their lord when he will return from the wedding, that when he cometh and knocketh, ye may open unto him immediately."...

...vigilant, and devout. The duty of a good servant is expressed in those words of our blessed Master, " Let your loins be girded about, and your lights burning, and ye yourselves like unto men that wait for the Lord, when he shall return from the wedding ; that when he cometh and knocketh, they may open unto...

...the figure used-^-«sa thief-r-is, that in which Christ himself foretold his personal advent : " Let your loins be girded about, and your lights burning,...yourselves like unto men that wait for their Lord, when He will return from the wedding. . . .And this know, that if the good man of the house had known...

...golden girdle as our High Priest, and ready to wait upon those that call upon him. Luke, xii. 35. Let your loins be girded about, and your lights burning...yourselves like unto men that wait for their lord, when he will return from the wedding ; that, when he cometh and knocketh, they may open unto him immediately....

...not at what ' hour the Lord cometh. Let your loins be ' girded about and your lights burning—and ' ye yourselves like unto men that wait for ' their lord. Blessed are those servants whom ' the Lord when he cometh shall find watch' ing: and if he shall come in the second ' watch, or come in the third...

...Saviour cautions us. With the same compassionate concern for our welfare, he thus exhorts us : " Let your loins be girded about and your lights burning, and ye yourselves like to men that wait for their Lord." And for our encouragement he adds, " Blessed are those servants,...

...on the earth, and to stand before the Son of man." " Let your loins be girded about and your lamps burning, and ye yourselves like unto men that wait for their Lord." " Be ye, therefore, f eady also : for in an hour that ye think not the Son of man cometh." Our chief...

...to live waiting for your Lord. The blessed Jesus has taught us to live waiting for his coming. " Let your loins be girded about, and your lights burning...their lord. Blessed are those servants, whom the lord, when he cometh, shall find watching."1 " I say nnto all, Watch."k The followers of Christ are described...

...affections from the things of this world, he exhorted them to labor after improvement in grace. " Let your loins be girded about, and your lights burning...yourselves like unto men that wait for their Lord, when he shall return from the wedding, that when he cometh and knockcth, they may open unto him imuiediately."...

...therefore : for ye know neither the day nor the hour wherein the Son of man cometh." Matt, xxv, 13. " Let your loins be girded about, and your lights burning,...yourselves like unto men that wait for their lord, when he will return from the wedding ; that when he cometh and knocketh they may open to him immediately....