Two men shall be in the field; the one shall be taken, and the other left.
[Two men shall be in the field; the one shall be taken, and the other left.] The evidence against the genuineness of this verse is too strong to admit of its being printed without brackets, as at least doubtful, and probably taken from Matthew 24:40. All the critical editors exclude it from their text, and nearly all critical expositors concur with them. DeWette, however, inclines to receive it. The prepared and the unprepared will, says our Lord, be found mingled in closest contact together in the ordinary walks and fellowships of life when the moment of severance arrives. Awful truth! Realized before the destruction of Jerusalem, when the Christians found themselves forced by their Lord's directions (Luke 21:21) at once and forever away from their old associates; but most of all, when the second coming of Christ shall burst upon a heedless world.