NEW TESTAMENT

Luke 17:26–30

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As it was in the days of Noah, even so it will also be in the days of the Son of Man.

They ate, they drank, they married, and they were given in marriage until the day that Noah entered into the ship, and the flood came and destroyed them all.

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Verse 27. After having compared his second coming to lightning, in order to shew how sudden it will be, he next compares it to the days of Noe and Lot, to shew that it will come when men least expect it; when, entirely forgetting his coming, they are solely occupied in the affairs of this world, in buying and selling, and so forth He only mentions those faults which appear trivial, or rather none at all, (passing over the crimes of murder, theft, and so forth) purposely to shew, that if God thus punishes merely the immoderate use of what is lawful, how will his vengeance fall upon what is in itself unlawful. Ven. Bede.

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Likewise, even as it was in the days of Lot: they ate, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they built;

but in the day that Lot went out from Sodom, it rained fire and sulfur from the sky and destroyed them all.

It will be the same way in the day that the Son of Man is revealed.

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