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Let your loins be girded, and your lamps burning,

And, ye yourselves, like unto men awaiting their own lord, once he may break up out of the marriage-feast, - that, when he cometh and knocketh, straightway, they may open unto him.

Happy those servants, whom the lord, when he cometh, shall find watching! Verily, I say unto you - he will gird himself, and make them recline, and, coming near, will minister unto them.

And, if, in the second, or if, in the third, watch, he come and find, thus, happy, are, they!

But, of this, be taking note - Had the householder known, in what hour the thief was coming, he would have watched, and not suffered his house, to be digged through.

Ye, therefore, be getting ready, because, in what hour ye are not thinking, The Son of an cometh!