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Philip Schaff's Popular Commentary (4 vols)

Matthew 6:29

Matthew 6:29. Even Solomon. The magnificence of his court is still proverbial through the East. To the Jew he was the highest representative of human glory.

Like one of these. ‘One' is emphatic. The meanest of God's creatures exceed in glory the highest earthly pomp. Vanity about such things is therefore the height of folly. Another lesson is hidden beneath the text, ‘As the beauty of the flower is unfolded by the Divine Creator-Spirit from within, from the laws and capacities of its own individual life, so must all true adornment of man be unfolded from within by the same Almighty Spirit.' (Alford.)

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