Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Matthew 6:27

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27. Which of you, by taking thought —anxious solicitude. can add one cubit unto his stature? —"Stature" can hardly be the thing intended here: first, because the subject is the prolongation of life, by the supply of its necessaries of food and clothing: and next, because no one would dream of adding a cubit—or a foot and a half—to his stature, while in the corresponding passage in Luke ( Luke 12:25 ; Luke 12:26 ) the thing intended is represented as "that thing which is least. " But if we take the word in its primary sense of " age " (for "stature" is but a secondary sense) the idea will be this, "Which of you, however anxiously you vex yourselves about it, can add so much as a step to the length of your life's journey?" To compare the length of life to measures of this nature is not foreign to the language of Scripture (compare Psalms 39:5 ; 2 Timothy 4:7 , &c.). So understood, the meaning is clear and the connection natural. In this the best critics now agree. return to ' Top of Page ' <a name="verse-28" class="com-number"

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