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Luke 12:37Luke.12.37

‹Blessed› [are] ‹those servants, whom the lord when he cometh shall find watching: verily I say unto you, that he shall gird himself, and make them to sit down to meat, and will come forth and serve them.›

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Translations

Louis Segond 1910

Heureux ces serviteurs que le maître, à son arrivée, trouvera veillant! Je vous le dis en vérité, il se ceindra, les fera mettre à table, et s'approchera pour les servir.

KJV

‹Blessed› [are] ‹those servants, whom the lord when he cometh shall find watching: verily I say unto you, that he shall gird himself, and make them to sit down to meat, and will come forth and serve them.›

Patristic reading

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  • Anonymous

    Predestined or the Heresy of the Predestinators three books

    not know the day or the hour" (Matthew 25:13). Blessed is that servant whom the Lord, when He comes (Luke 12:37), will find watching. If it seems right, let us proceed to the rest. But what do these people think? Do they believe they can achieve edification by their own will, whe…
  • Nicetas of Remesiana

    Work on the Vigils of Gods Servants

    rns from the wedding. Blessed are those servants whom the master, when he comes, will find watching" Luke 12:35-37. And he adds: "Whether he comes in the evening, or at midnight, or at the crowing of the rooster, and finds them watching, blessed are they" Mark 13:35-37. Therefore…
  • Various

    Patrologia Latina Vol. 91 (Migne)

    rum: Amen dico vobis quod praecinget se, et faciet illos discumbere, et transiens ministrabit illis (Luc. XII, 37) . Qui enim praecingit se, qui discubitum praeparat, qui transit, qui ministrat, utique operatur. Sed his tamen verbis omnibus nihil aliud intimatur, quam quod sancto…

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