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(having sent out the Apostles), the Lord appointed other seventy also, and sent them two and two before his face into every city and place whither he himself would come (saying), He that heareth you heareth me; and he that despiseth you despiseth me; and he that despiseth me despiseth him that sent me. Lu. x. 1. 16. Thus it is written (said Jesus to the Apostles before his ascension), and thus it behoved Christ to suffer, and to rise from the dead the third day and that repentance and remission of sins should be preached in his name among all nations, beginning at Jerusalem. Lu. xxiv. 46, 47. Ye shall receive power, after that the Holy Ghost is come upon you; and ye shall be witnesses unto me (said Jesus), both in Jerusalem, and in all Judea, and in Samaria, and unto the uttermost part of the earth. Ac. i. 8. Now they (the disciples) which were scattered abroad upon the persecution that arose about Stephen, travelled as far as Phenice, and Cyprus, and Antioch, preaching the word to none, but unto the Jews only. And some of them were men of Cyprus and Cyrene, which when they were come to Antioch, spake unto the Grecians, preaching the Lord Jesus. Ac. xi. 19, 20. Then Paul and Barnabas waxed bold, and said, It was necessary that the word of God should first have been spoken to you: but seeing ye put it from you, and judge yourselves unworthy of everlasting life, lo, we turn to the Gentiles. For so hath the Lord commanded us, saying, I have set thee to be a light of the Gentiles, that thou shouldest be for salvation unto the ends of the earth. Ac. xiii. 46, 47. After three days Paul called the chief of the Jews together and when they were come together, he said unto them, Men and brethren, though I have committed nothing against the people, or customs of our fathers, yet was I delivered prisoner from Jerusalem into the hands of the Romans. Ac. xxviii. 17.

Behold, I have prepared my dinner.] Wisdom hath builded her house; she hath hewn out her seven pillars; she hath killed her beasts; she hath mingled her wine; she hath also furnished her table. Pr. ix. 1, 2. Eat, O friends (saith Christ to his church), drink, yea, drink abundantly, O beloved. Can. v. 1. This is the bread which cometh down from heaven, that a man may eat thereof and not die. I am the living bread (said Christ) which came down from heaven; if any man eat of this bread, he shall live for ever : and the bread that I will give is my flesh, which I will give for the life of the world. The Jews therefore strove among themselves, saying, How can this man give us his flesh to eat? Then Jesus said unto them, Verily, verily, I

say unto you, Except ye eat the flesh of the Son of man, and drink his blood, ye have no life in you. Whoso eateth my flesh, and drinketh my blood, hath eternal life; and I will raise him up at the last day. For my flesh is meat indeed, and my blood is drink indeed. He that eateth my flesh, and drinketh my blood, dwelleth in me and I in him. As the living Father hath sent me, and I live by the Father, so he that eateth me, even he shall live by me. John vi. 50-57. He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not with him also freely give us all things? Ro. viii. 32. Purge out the old leaven, that ye may be a new lump, as ye are unleavened. For even Christ our passover is sacrificed for us. Therefore let us keep the feast, not with old leaven, neither with the leaven of malice and wickedness; but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth. 1 Co. v. 7, 8.

And all things are ready.] See verse 8. "They" ("the Israelites") and our fathers refused to obey, neither were mindful of thy wonders that thou didst among them; but thou art a God ready to pardon, gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and of great kindness, and forsookest them not. Ne. ix. 17. Thon, Lord, art good, and ready to forgive, and plenteous in mercy unto all them that call upon thee. Ps. lxxxvi. 5. Come, for all things are now ready (said the servant at supper-time to them that were bidden). Lu. xiv. 17.

5 They made light of it.] And Lot went out and spake unto his sons-in-law, which married his daughters, and said, Up, get ye out of "this place " (" Sodom"), for the Lord will destroy this city. But he seemed as one that mocked unto his sons-in-law. Ge. xix. 14. Thus Esau despised his birth-right. Ge xxv. 34. Yea, they despised the pleasant land; they believed not his word; but murmured in their tents; and hearkened not unto the voice of the Lord. Ps. cvi. 24, 25. The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge. Because I have called and ye refused; I have stretched out my hand, and no man regarded: But ye have set at nought all my counsel, and would none of my reproof. Pr. i. 7. 24, 25. Others (who witnessed the descent of fiery tongues, &c). mocking, said, These men are full of new wine. Ac. ii. 13. Go thy way for this time, said Felix to Paul, when I have a convenient season I will call for thee. Ac. xxiv. 25. Despisest thou the riches of his goodness, and forbearance, and long-suffering, not knowing that the goodness of God leadeth thee to repentance? Ro. ii. 4. How shall we escape if we neglect so great salvation; which at the first began to be

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One to his farm.] See chap. xiii. 22. As in the days that were before the flood, they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark, and knew not until the flood came and took them all away; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be. Mat. xxiv. 38, 39. And they all (that were bidden) with one consent began to make excuse. The first said unto "him" (the servant that was sent to invite the guests), I have bought a piece of ground, and I must needs go and see it; I pray thee have me excused. And another said, I have married a wife, and therefore I cannot come. Lu. xiv. 18. 20. As it was in the days of Noe, so shall it be also in the days of the Son of man. They did eat, they drank, they married wives, they were given in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark, and the flood came, and destroyed them all. Likewise also as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they builded; but the same day that Lot went out of Sodom, it rained fire and brimstone from heaven and destroyed them all. Even thus shall it be in the day when the Son of man is revealed. In that day, he which shall be upon the housetop, and his stuff in the house, let him not L come down to take it away: and he that is in the field, let him likewise not return back. Remember Lot's wife. Lu. xvii. 26-32. To

be carnally minded is death; but to be spiritually minded is life and peace. Ro. viii. 6. In the last days perilous times shall come, for men shall be lovers of their ownselves; traitors, heady, high-minded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God. 2 Ti. iii. 1, 2. 4.

6 The remnant took his servants, &c.] See chap. v. 10, 11, 12; x. 12—18. 22-25; xxi. 35. 39. Behold, I send unto you prophets, and wise men, and Scribes: and some of them ye shall kill and crucify; and some of them shall ye scourge in your synagogues, and persecute them from city to city: that upon you may come all the righteous blood shed upon the earth, from the blood of righteous Abel, unto the blood of Zacharias son of Barachias, whom ye slew between the temple and the altar. Verily I say unto you, All these things shall come upon this generation. O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, thou that killest the prophets, and stonest them which are sent unto thee, how often would I have gathered thy children together, even as a hen gathereth her chickens under her wings, and ye would Ma. xxiii. 34-37. If ye were of the world (said Jesus to his disciples), the world

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would love his own: but because ye are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hateth you. Remember the word that I said unto you, The servant is not greater than his Lord. If they have persecuted me, they will also persecute you; if they have kept my saying, they will keep your's also. John xv. 19, 20. They shall put you out of the synagogues; yea, the time cometh, that whosoever killeth you will think that he doeth God service. And these things will they do unto you, because they have not known the Father, nor me. John xvi. 2, 3. And "they" ("the priests and captain of the temple") laid hands on "them" ("Peter and John") and put them in hold unto the next day, for it was now even-tide. Ac. iv. 3. To "him" ("Gamaliel ") "they" (the "council") agreed; and when they had called the apostles, and beaten them, they commanded that they should not speak in the name of Jesus, and let them go. And they departed from the presence of the council, rejoicing that they were counted worthy to suffer shame for his name. Ac. v. 40, 41. Ye stiffnecked, and uncircumcised in heart and ears (said Stephen), ye do always resist the Holy Ghost; as your fathers did, so do ye. Which of the prophets have not your fathers persecuted; and they have slain them which shewed before of the coming of the Just One, of whom ye have been now the betrayers and murderers; who have received the law by the disposition of angels, and have not kept it. When they heard these things they were cut to the heart, and they gnashed on him with their teeth. But he being full of the Holy Ghost, looked up stedfastly into heaven, and saw the glory of God, and Jesus standing on the right hand of God. Then they cried out with a loud voice, and stopped their ears; and ran upon him with one accord. Ac. vii. 51-57. Ye, brethren, became followers of the churches of God, which in Judea are in Christ Jesus, for ye also have suffered like things of your own countrymen, even as they have of the Jews; who both killed the Lord Jesus and their own prophets, and have persecuted us: and they please not God, and are contrary to all men. 1 Th. ii. 14, 15. 7 He was wroth.] See chap. xxi. 40, 41. Those mine enemies (said the nobleman who left money with his servants), which would not that I should reign over them, bring hither, and slay them before me. Lu. xix. 27. "They" ("the Jews") please not God, and are contrary to all men; forbidding us to speak to the Gentiles, that they might be saved; to fill up their sins alway; for the wrath is come upon them to the uttermost.

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ii. 15, 16. The time is come that judgment must begin at the house of God; and if it first begin at us, what shall the end be of them that obey not the Gospel of God? And if the righteous scarcely be saved, where shall the ungodly and sinner appear. 1 Pe. iv. 17, 18. His armies.] The Lord shall bring a nation against thee from far, from the end of the earth, as swift as the eagle flieth; a nation whose tongue thou shalt not understand. A nation of fierce countenance, which shall not regard the person of the old, nor shew favour to the young. And he shall eat the fruit of thy cattle, and the fruit of thy land, until thou be destroyed, &c. De. xxviii. 49, 50, 51. O Assyrian, the rod of mine anger, and the staff in their hand is mine indignation; I will send him against an hypocritical nation, and against the people of my wrath will I give him a charge-to take the spoil and to take the prey, and to tread them down like the mire of the streets. Howbeit, he meaneth not so, neither doth his heart think so; but it is in his heart to destroy and cut off nations not a few. Is. x. 5, 6, 7. Lift ye up a banner upon the high mountain, exalt the voice unto "them" ("of his wrath"). Shake the hand, that they may go into the gates of the nobles. I have commanded my sanctified ones, I have also called my mighty ones for mine anger, even them that rejoice in my highness. noise of a multitude in the mountains, like as of a great people; a tumultuous noise of the kingdoms of nations gathered together: the Lord of hosts mustereth the host of the battle. They come from a far country, from the end of heaven, even the Lord, and the weapons of his indignation, to destroy the whole land. Is. xiii. 2-5. Thou art my battle-axe, and weapons of war (said God to Israel), for with thee will I break in pieces the nations; and with thee will I destroy kingdoms. And with thee will I break in pieces the horse and his rider; and with thee will I break in pieces the chariot and his rider. With thee also will I break in pieces man and woman; and with thee will I break in pieces old and young; and with thee will I break in pieces the young man and the maid. I will also break in pieces with thee the shepherd and his flock; and with thee will I break in pieces the husbandman and his yoke of oxen; and with thee will I break in pieces captains and rulers. Je. li. 20-23. And the Lord shall utter his voice before his army; for his camp is very great: for he is strong that executeth his word. For the day of the Lord is great, and very terrible, and who can abide it? And I will restore to "you" ("Zion") the years that

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the locust hath eaten, the canker-worm, and the caterpillar, and the palmer-worm, my great army which I sent among you. Joel ii. 11. 25. I will also gather all nations, and will bring them down into the valley of Jehoshaphat, and will plead with them there, for my people, and for my heritage, Israel, whom they have scattered among the nations, and parted my land. Joel iii. 2. But those mine enemies which would not that I should reign over them, bring hither, and slay them before Lu. xix. 27.

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8 The wedding is ready.] See verse 4. But they which were bidden, &c.] See chap. x. 11-13. 37, 38. But they which shall be accounted worthy to obtain that world, and the resurrection from the dead, neither marry nor are given in marriage. Lu. xx. 35. 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. Lu. xxi. 36. It was necessary (said Paul and Barnabas to the Jews) that the word of God should first have been spoken to you, but seeing ye put it from you, and judge yourselves unworthy of everlasting life, lo, we turn to the Gentiles. 4. xiii. 46. We ourselves glory in you, for your patience and faith, in all your persecutions and tribulations that ye endure, which is a manifest token of the righteous judgment of God, that ye may be counted worthy of the kingdom of God, for which ye also suffer. 2 Th. i. 4, 5. Thou hast a few names even in Sardis, which have not defiled their garments; and they shall walk with me in white, for they are worthy. Re. iii. 4. Blessed are they that do his commandments, that they may have right to the tree of life, and may enter in through the gates into the city. R. xxii. 14.

9 Ye therefore into the highways.] Wis dom crieth without; she uttereth her voice in the streets; she crieth in the chief place of concourse, in the openings of the gates; in the city she uttereth her words, saying, How long, ye simple ones, will ye love simplicity? And the scorners delight in their scorning, and fools hate knowledge? Turn you at my reproof. Behold, I will pour out my Spirit unto you, I will make known my words unto you. Pr. i. 20-23. Doth not wisdom cry? and understanding put forth her voice? standeth in the top of high places, by the way in the places of the paths. She crieth at the gates, at the entry of the city, at the coming in at the doors. Unto you, O men, call and my voice is to the sons of man. 0 ye simple, understand wisdom; and ye fools.

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