“But watch yourselves lest your hearts be weighed down with dissipation and drunkenness and cares of this life, and that day come upon you suddenly like a trap.
Here, in the close of this discourse, I. Christ appoints his disciples to observe the signs of the times, which they might judge by, if they had an eye to the foregoing directions, with as much certainty and assurance as they could judge of the approach of summer by the budding forth of the trees, Luk 21:29-31.
Commenting on Luke 21:29-38
Verse 34. Lest at any time your hearts be overcharged, &c. The meaning of this verse is, "Be continually expecting these things. Do not forget them, and do not be secure and satisfied with this life and the good things which it furnishes.
surfeiting, and drunkenness--All animal excesses, quenching spirituality. cares of this life--(See on Mar 4:7; Mar 4:19).