And while they went to buy, the bridegroom came; and they that were ready went in with him to the marriage: and the door was shut.
Ver. 10. And they that were ready went in, &c.] The bridegroom waits no man's leisure: love is impatient by delays, leaps over all impediments, those mountains of Bether, or division, Song of Solomon 2:17, that it may have not a union only, but a unity with the beloved.
And the door was shut] Opportunity is headlong, and once lost, irrecoverable. It behoves us, therefore, to be abrupt in the work of repentance, Daniel 4:27, as a work of greatest haste; lest we cry out, as he once, All too late, all too late; or as a great lady of this land did lately upon her death bed, Time, time! a world of wealth for an inch of time. We lack not time so much as waste it. Remember that upon this moment depends eternity. God hath hanged the heaviest weights upon the weakest wires.