30. And he came to the second, and said likewise. And he answered and said, I go, sir —"I, sir." The emphatic "I," here, denotes the self-righteous complacency which says, "God, I thank thee that I am not as other men" ( :- ). and went not — He did not "afterward repent" and refuse to go; for there was here no intention to go. It is the class that "say and do not" ( Matthew 23:3 ) —a falseness more abominable to God, says STIER, than any "I will not." return to ' Top of Page ' <a name="verse-31" class="com-number"
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