Matthew 11:16-19
Children sitting in the markets; and imitating in their plays the transactions of life. Piped unto you; played a lively tune, as at a wedding-feast.Mourned unto you; played a mournful tune, as at a funeral.Lamented; imitated the lamentations at funerals that accompanied the playing of the minstrels, chap Mt 9:23. These children are wayward, and will do nothing to please their mates. Neither eating nor drinking; living very abstemiously. Though there is a great variety in the outward condition of ministers of the gospel, and in the mode of their communications with men, yet no condition and no manner of living or preaching will make the gospel universally acceptable, or lead any, without the grace of God, to embrace it. Eating and drinking; living as did other people.They say, Behold a man gluttonous; they found fault with both, and rejected both, like fickle, capricious children, whom nothing could please.Wisdom is justified of her children; right and wise ways, like those which John and the Saviour pursued, will be approved by the spiritually wise and good.
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