Matthew Chapter 25 verse 3 Holy Bible
For the foolish, when they took their lamps, took no oil with them:
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For the foolish, when they took their lights, took no oil with them.
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They that were foolish took their torches and did not take oil with them;
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They that were foolish took their lamps, and took no oil with them:
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Those who were foolish, when they took their lamps, took no oil with them,
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they who were foolish having taken their lamps, did not take with themselves oil;
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 3. - They that were foolish (αἵτινες μωραί)... took no oil with them. It has been doubted whether they brought no oil of their own at all, trusting to get their lamps filled by others, or whether they neglected to bring an additional supply to replenish them when exhausted. The latter seems most likely to be the sense intended; as the spiritual aspect of the parable places both classes in exactly the same position at starting, and we know from other sources that, the oil reservoirs being very small, it was the custom to carry another vessel from which to refill them. Some good manuscripts commence the verse with "for," thus making the verse justify the epithets applied to the virgins.
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(3) Took no oil with them.--In the interpretation of the parable, the lamp or torch is obviously the outward life of holiness by which the disciple of Christ lets his light shine before men (Matthew 5:16), and the "oil" is the divine grace, or more definitely, the gift of the Holy Spirit, without which the torch first burns dimly and then expires. The foolish virgins neglected to seek that supply, either from the Great Giver, or through the human agencies by which He graciously imparts it.
