Matthew Chapter 24 verse 49 Holy Bible
and shall begin to beat his fellow-servants, and shall eat and drink with the drunken;
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And is cruel to the other servants, taking his pleasure with those who are overcome with wine;
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and begin to beat his fellow-bondmen, and eat and drink with the drunken;
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And shall begin to smite his fellowservants, and to eat and drink with the drunken;
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and begins to beat his fellow-servants, and eat and drink with the drunken,
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and may begin to beat the fellow-servants, and to eat and to drink with the drunken,
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 49. - Shall begin. As soon as he conceives the idea of the delay in his lord's arrival, he changes his conduct, plays the master, and uses his power for oppression and injustice. But he has only time to commence these unrighteous acts, when he is arrested by the very occurrence which he had willfully ignored. To smite his fellow servants; i.e. those who are faithful to their master. Applied to Christian ministers, such conduct would appertain to those who use their authority for oppression or self-aggrandizement, "lording it over the charge allotted to them" (1 Peter 5:3). And to eat (ἐσθίῃ, and shall eat) and drink with the drunken. He indulges in luxury and intemperance, choosing as his companions men of dissolute habits. A self-indulgent minister, or one who is not discreet in choosing his friends and acquaintance, has little influence in checking the excesses of his flock, and is far from being, as he ought to be, "a pattern of good works" (Titus 2:7).