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John Gill
Neither let him which is in the field,.... Ploughing, or sowing, or employed in any other parts of husbandry, or rural business, return back to take clothes; for it was usual to work in the fields without their clothes, as at ploughing and sowing. Hence those words of Virgil (e). "Nudus ara, sere nudus, hyems ignava colono.'' Upon which Servius observes, that in good weather, when the sun warms...
Matthew Henry
Christ's preaching was mostly practical; but, in this chapter, we have a prophetical discourse, a prediction of things to come; such however as had a practical tendency, and was intended, not to gratify the curiosity of his disciples, but to guide their consciences and conversations, and it is therefore concluded with a practical application. The church has always had particular prophecies,...
Charles H. Spurgeon
Let him which is on the housetop not come down to take any thing out of his house: Neither let him which is in the field return back to take his clothes. They were to flee in all haste the moment they saw the Roman standards,
Charles H. Spurgeon
When ye therefore shall see the abomination of desolation, spoken of by Daniel the prophet stand in the holy place, (whose readeth, let him understand;) Then let them which be in Judaea flee into the mountains: Let him which is on the housetop not come down to take anything out of his house: Neither let him which is in the field return back to take his clothes. This portion of our Saviour’s words...