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Clementine Latin Vulgate
secundum Matthæum 17:36
Bible Study Resources
Concordances:
- Nave'sDictionaries:
- FaussetParallel Translations
Respondentes dicunt illi: Ubi Domine?
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
This verse is wanting in most of the Greek copies.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
Two men shall be in the field,.... At work there, tilling the ground, or sowing the seed in it, or reaping the corn; which of them soever was the work of the field, at the time of Jerusalem's destruction:
the one shall be taken, and the other left: the circumstances attending these several, instances show, that they cannot be considered as expressive of the use and effect of the preaching of the Gospel, that being the savour of life unto life to some, and the savour of death unto death to others, some being effectually called by it, and others being left to die in their sins; since these men and women are said to be either in a bed asleep, or on a couch feasting, or grinding in a mill, or at work in the field, and so not in proper places, and at leisure to hear the Gospel preached. The whole verse is left out in the Ethiopic version, and in some Greek copies; though it is in the Syriac, Arabic, and Persic versions, and in the Complutensian edition, and in some ancient copies, as Beza observes.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
See the notes at Matthew 24:40-41.
