foreign to the language of Scripture, (cf. Ps. 39:5; 2 Tim. 4:7, &c.) So understood, the meaning is clear and the connection natural. In this the best critics now agree. 28. And why take ye thought for raiment? Consider (‘observe well’) the lilies of the field, how they grow: they toil not—as men, planting and preparing the flax, neither do they spin—as women: 29. And yet I say unto you, That even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. What incomparable teaching!—best left in