Verse 7
7. He from within To the soul that has hitherto neglected prayer, God is behind a vail; is shut up; is gone to sleep. But, in that case, woe when he awaketh!
Trouble me not He is short and sharp. He echoes not the honeyed word friend. Thus, in this parable, as in that of the unjust judge, the little obstinacy of man is made to illustrate the wise severity of God. The finite is the faint emblem of the Infinite; the defective of the perfect.
See note on Luke 18:2.
Door is now shut And doubtless bolted with a huge Oriental wooden lock. See on Matthew 16:0.
My children are with me in bed Says Dr. Thomson, “the whole family, parents, children, and servants, sleep in the same room, with slight change of garments or none at
all.” I cannot rise and give thee These are wayward human reasons; yet symbols of the divine sternness. For with the froward God will shew himself froward. Psalms 18:26.
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