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Watch therefore, for you don`t know the day nor the hour in which the Son of Man is coming.
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The Parable's Punchline
Commentators unanimously agree that this verse is the central point and main application of the entire Parable of the Ten Virgins. The story's purpose is to drive home this single, urgent command: 'Watch.' It is, as Albert Barnes states, the 'scope or design of the whole parable.'
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18th Century
Presbyterian
Watch therefore, etc. This is the scope or design of the whole parable. This is the great truth He wished to inculcate, and all parts of t…
Watch therefore (γρηγορειτε ουν). This is the refrain with all the parables. Lack of foresight is inexcusable. Ignorance of the ti…
19th Century
Baptist
Our Lord again instructs His followers in the duty of watchfulness, as in Matthew 24:42, and repeats, in a slightly-altered form, the reason previo…
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The bridegroom comes, the wise virgins enter, and the door is shut. The intense cries of the ill-prepared and foolish latecomers are of no avail. B…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
Watch therefore In ordinances, in prayer, public and private, in hearing the word, at the Lord's supper, and in ever…
The circumstances of the parable of the ten virgins were taken from the marriage customs among the Jews and explain the great day of Christ's comin…
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13th Century
Catholic
Here, the discussion concerned the Lord’s Coming for the Judgment; here, it concerns the Judgment itself. Therefore, this chapter is divided into t…
