Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Matthew 25:8

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8. And the foolish said unto the wise, Give us of your oil; for our lamps are gone out —rather, as in the Margin, "are going out"; for oil will not light an extinguished lamp, though it will keep a burning one from going out. Ah! now at length they have discovered not only their own folly, but the wisdom of the other class, and they do homage to it. They did not perhaps despise them before, but they thought them righteous overmuch; now they are forced, with bitter mortification, to wish they were like them. return to ' Top of Page ' <a name="verse-9" class="com-number"

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