...for our Saviour uses that expression concerning him, as well as concerning himself, Matt. xi. 18, 19, John came neither eating nor drinking, and they say he hath a deemon. The Son of Man came eating and drinking, &c. i It may also be asserted with more certainty...

...and a winebibber, ba friend of л».< An. oiymp. fellows, C( Г 3 — 17 And saying, We have piped unto you, and ye have not danced ; we have mourned unto you, and ye have not lamented. 18 For John came neither eating nor drinking, and they say, * He hath a devil. 19 The Son of Man came...

...Calmet'.i Commentary. f * The words of our Saviour, to illustrate this, are these,—" We have piped unto you, and ye have not danced ; we have mourned unto you, and ye have not lamented," Matth. xi. 17. which seem to be a proverb founded upon a custom among the Jewish children, to imitate...

...Husbandmen, and the Marriage Supper. It is intimated also in those remarkable words ; " We have piped unto you, and ye have not danced : we have mourned unto you, and ye have not lamented ;" as if he had said — ' Neither the calls of mercy, nor the denunciations of judgment, produce their...

...children sitting in the market-places, and calling to their 17 companions ', and saying, ' We have piped unto you, and ye have not danced ; we have mourned unto you, and ye have 18 not lamented.' For John came neither eating nor drinking; 19 and men say, ' He hath a demon2.' The...

...like unto children sitting in the markets, and calling unto their fellows, and saying, W^e have piped unto you, and ye have not danced ; we have mourned unto you, and ye have Luke xiii. not lamented. Or again : O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, which killest the prophets, and stonest...

...our Saviour uses that expression concerning him, as well as concerning himself, Matt. xi. 18, 19 : " John came neither eating nor drinking, and they say he hath a demon. The Son of Man came eating and drinking," &c. It may also be asserted, with more certainty still,...

...like unto children sitting in the markets, and calling unto their fellows, and saying, We have piped unto you, and ye have not danced ; we have mourned unto you, and ye have not lamented. Or again : O Jerusalem, Jerusa- Luke xiii. • 34v lem, which killest the prophets, and stonest them...

...of favour : for, not to multiply examples, " John came, neither eating nor drinking, and they Bay, He hath a devil ; the Son of Man came, eating and drinking, and they say, Behold a man gluttonous and a wine-hihher, a friend of puhlicans and sinners." These things we know ; hut we...

...like unto children sitting in the markets, and calling unto their fellows, and saying, we have piped unto you, and ye have not danced ; we have mourned unto you, and ye have not lamented." It is difficult to please people who are determined to dissent, or to convince those whose humour is...