Luke 21:34

“And take heed to yourselves, etc.] To your souls and bodies, to your lives and conversations; be upon your watch and guard: lest your hearts be overcharged with surfeiting and drunkenness; with excessive eating and drinking; for these, as they oppress and burden the stomach, and disorder the body, so they stupefy the senses, and make the mind dull and heavy, and unfit for spiritual and religious exercises; such as reading, meditation, and prayer: and cares of this life; concealing food and clothing, what you shall eat or drink, or wherewith ye shall be clothed; all such anxious and worldly cares, being that to the soul, as intemperance is to the body; for there is such a thing as being…”

“surfeiting, and drunkenness--All animal excesses, quenching spirituality. cares of this life--(See on Mar 4:7; Mar 4:19).”

“The account of the destruction of Jerusalem contained in this chapter has been fully considered in the notes at Matthew 24:0. All that will be necessary here will be an explanation of a few words that did not occur in that chapter. Luke 21:9 Commotions - Insurrections. Subjects rising against their rulers. Luke 21:11 Fearful sights - See Matthew 24:7. Luke 21:12, Luke 21:13 Synagogues, and into prisons - See the notes at Mark 13:9-10. Luke 21:14 Settle it, therefore, in your hearts - Fix it firmly in your minds - so firmly as to become a settled principle - that you are always to depend on God for aid in all your trials. See Mark 13:11. Luke 21:15 A mouth - Eloquence, ability to speak as the…”

“Take heed, lest at any time your hearts be overloaded with gluttony and drunkenness - And was there need to warn the apostles themselves against such sins as these? Then surely there is reason to warn even strong Christians against the very grossest sins. Neither are we wise, if we think ourselves out of the reach of any sin: and so that day - Of judgment or of death, come upon you, even you that are not of this world - Unawares. Mat 24:42; Mar 13:33; Luk 12:35. Luke 21:35”

“21:34 The central theme of the discourse is Watch out! Believers are always to be alert and ready for Christ’s return.”

“take: Luk 21:8, Luk 17:3; Mar 13:9; Heb 12:15 your hearts: Luk 12:45; Lev 10:9; Pro 21:4; Isa 28:7, Isa 56:10-12; Hos 4:11; Rom 13:11-13; Th1 5:6-8; Pe1 4:3-7 surfeiting: Deu 29:19; Sa1 25:36; Isa 28:1-3; Co1 5:11, Co1 6:10; Gal 5:20 cares: Luk 8:14, Luk 10:41; Mat 13:22; Mar 4:19; Phi 4:6 that day: Luk 12:46; Psa 35:8; Mat 24:39-50; Mar 13:35-37; Th1 5:2-4; Pe2 3:10, Pe2 3:14; Rev 3:3 Luke 21:35”