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Let your loins be girded about, and your lamps burning.
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Commentators explain that 'girding your loins' was a practical necessity in the ancient world. People with long, flowing robes would tie them up with a belt to prepare for work, travel, or battle. Spiritually, this is a call to be unhindered by worldly affairs and constantly prepared for active service to Christ.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
Let your loins, and so on. This alludes to the ancient manner of dress. They wore a long flowing robe as their outer garment. (See Barnes …
Be girded about (εστωσαν περιεζωσμενα). Periphrastic perfect passive imperative third plural of the verb περιζωννυμ or περιζωννυω …
19th Century
Anglican
Let your loins be girded . . .—To “gird up the loins” was, in Eastern customs and with Eastern garments, the accepted sym…
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Baptist
Provide yourselves bags which wax not old, a treasure in the heavens that faileth not, where no thief approacheth, neither moth corrupteth. For…
In Jesus’ time, a person “dressed ready for service” tucked his flowing outer robe under his belt or sash. This was done to prepare for travel, fig…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
Let your loins be girded about With the girdle of truth, (Ephesians 6:14) keeping close to the doctrines…
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