For ye have the poor always with you; but me ye have not always.
Ver. 11. The poor ye have always with you] To try and to exercise your liberality, yea, your justice, Matthew 6:1, as the Syriac calleth it, Proverbs 3:27. Withhold not thy goods from these owners thereof.
But me ye have not always] Christ dwelt in the flesh, as in a tent or booth, John 1:14. He sojourned here for a while only; his abode with us was but temporary, as the Greek word there importeth (εσκηνωσεν, ex quo intelligitur Christi moram apud nos temporariam fuisse. Beza).