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"So be careful, or your hearts will be loaded down with carousing, drunkenness, and cares of this life, and that day will come on you suddenly.
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Intoxicated by More Than Drink
Commentators highlight that Jesus lists three dangers that weigh down the heart: gluttony ('surfeiting'), drunkenness, and 'the cares of this life.' Charles Spurgeon notes that worldly anxieties—about getting, keeping, or losing things—can be just as intoxicating and spiritually dulling as alcohol. The warning is to guard against any overindulgence, whether in physical pleasure or worldly worry, that makes us spiritually sluggish.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
Lest at any time your hearts be overcharged. The meaning of this verse is:
Be continually expecting these things. Do not forget the…
Lest haply your hearts be overcharged (μη ποτε βαρηθωσιν α καρδια υμων). First aorist passive subjunctive of βαρεω, an old verb to…
19th Century
Anglican
Take heed to yourselves, lest at any time . . .—We again encounter a section that has no parallel in the other accounts o…
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Baptist
Heaven and earth shall pass away: but my words shall not pass away. And take heed to yourselves, lest at any time your hearts be overcharged wi…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
And take heed to yourselves To your souls and bodies, to your lives and conversations; be upon your watch and guard.
Christ tells His disciples to observe the signs of the times, by which they could judge. He charges them to consider the ruin of the Jewish nation …
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