The time is come, the day draweth near: let not the buyer rejoice, nor the seller mourn: for wrath [is] upon all the multitude thereof.
Ver. 12. The time is come, the day draweth near.] Advenit illud tempus, pertigit ilia dies. Let this voice ever sound in the ears of those negligent spirits who cry Cras Domine, tomorrow Lord, wiling away their time as she in Revelation 2:21, and so fooling away their own salvation, as those virgins. Mat 25:1-12
Let not the buyer rejoice.] He shall have no such great joy of his purchase, since the enemy shall shortly take all, et qui latifundia habuerunt, ne latum pedem retinebunt, and those who have large estates will not keep back enough for a foot, and no man shall be master of his own, nay, not of a molehill.
For wrath is upon all the multitude thereof.] Or, Upon all the wealth thereof. To like purpose the apostle in 1 Corinthians 7:29; "This, then, I say, brethren, The time is short," or trussed up, contracted. "Let them that have wives be as though they had none, they that weep as though they wept not, they that rejoice as though they rejoiced not, and they that buy as though they possessed not," &c. Rebus non me trado sed commodo, said the wise heathen. a Hang loose to all things here below, and labour after that undefiled and unfadable inheritance. 1Pe 1:4-7
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