...we may apply the pftrable of the " children sitting in the market-place, and calling one to another, and saying, We have piped unto you, and ye have not...danced ; we have mourned unto you, and ye have not wept." Disaffection to the work often lurks under cavils against the instruments by which it is carried...

...(which is an inevitable consequence,) you again deny and complain. What do you want ? " We have piped unto you, and ye have not danced ; we have mourned unto you, and ye have not lamented." You will neither suffer it to be that you can turn yourself, nor that it depends on the eternal, unchangeable...

...they like ? They are like unto chil" dren sitting in the market place, and calling one to " another, and saying, We have piped unto you, and " ye have not danced ; we have mourned to you, and " ye have not wept. For John the Baptist came nei" ther eating bread, nor drinking wine;...

...32 are they like ? They are like children sitting in the market-place, and calling one to another, and saying, We have piped unto you, and ye have not danced ; we have mourned to you, 33 and ye have not wept For John the Baptist came neither eating bread, nor drinking wine ;...

...like to children sitting in the markets, and calling to their companions, 17. Saying, We have piped to 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 Messiah came...

...Testament. When the voice of the Son of man is heard, Matt. xi. exclaiming ; Whereunto shall I liken this generation ? It is like unto children sitting...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...

...glut- л. м. 4031. tonous, 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...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...

...what are they like ? They are like children sitting in the market-place, and calling one to another, and saying, ' We have piped unto you, and ye have not danced : we have 33 mourned unto you, and ye have not wept.' For John the Baptist hath conie neither eating bread, nor...