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170 this stranger. And he said to him: Arise, goe thy wayes; because thy faith hath made thee safe. ✠

And being asked of the Pharisees: when commeth the Kingdom of God? he answered them and said: The Kingdom of God commeth not with observation: neither shal they say: Loe here, or loe there. For loe the Kingdom of God is within you.

And he said to his Disciples: The dayes wil come when you shal desire to see one day of the Sonne of man; and you shal not see. * And they wil say to you, Loe here and loe there. Goe not, neither doe ye follow after. For even as the lightning that lightneth from under Heaven, unto those partes that are under Heaven, shineth: so shal the Sonne of man be in his day. But first he must suffer many things and be rejected of this generation. And as it came to passe in the * dayes of Noe, so shal it be also in the dayes of the Sonne of man. They did eate and drinke, they did marie wives and were given to mariage even until the day that Noe entred into the arke: and the floud came, and destroyed them al. Likewise as it came to passe in the * dayes of Lot: They did eate and drinke, bought and sould, planted, and builded: and in the day that Lot went out from Sodome, it rained fire and brimstone from Heaven, and destroyed them all: according to these things it shal be in the day that the Sonne of man shal be revealed. In that houre he that shal be in the house-top, and his vessel in the house, let him not goe downe to take them up: and he that is in the field, in like manner let him not returne backe. Be mindful of * Lots wife. Whosoever seeketh to save his life, shal lose it: and whosoever doth lose the same, shal quicken it. I say to you, in that night there shal be two in one bed: the one shal be taken, and the other shal be left: two women shal be grinding together: the one shal be taken, and the other shal be left: two in the field: the one shal be taken, and the other shal be left. They answering say to him: Where Lord? Who said to them: Wheresoever the body shal be, thither wil the eagles also be gathered together.

ANNOTATIONS. XVII.

10. Unprofitable servants.) If our Saviour had said that the keeping of Gods commandements had bene unprofitable and not available to our selves, then might the Protestant have truly argued thereby that our workes deserve not Heaven or any reward at Gods hand: but so he said not, but that our service is to God unprofitable, who calleth for it as duty, and not as a thing needful or profitable to himself. And though here our Maister teach us so humbly to conceive of our owne doings toward him, yet him self elswhere calleth not his servants unprofitable when they have done their labour, but speaketh thus, Good and faithful servant, because thou wast faithful in a litle, I wil place thee over much: enter into the joy of thy Lord. Yea of such as serve him in the grace of the new Testament, he affirmeth that he wil not now name them servants but freinds, yea and take them for his owne children, and as his freinds and sonnes he counteth of us and our workes towards heaven, though we in humilitie and truth must confesse alwayes that we be to him unprofitable servants. Yea and S. Paul saith plainly, that by cleansing ourselves from sinful workes we shal be profitable vessels to our lord. ''2 Tim. 2, 21.'' Rh