Mark 13:11

take no thought beforehand Rather, be not anxious beforehand, or distracted beforehand with anxiety. "Nyle þe penkewhat ye schulen speke," Wyclif. "Thought," when our translation was made, signified undue careor anxiety. Thus Bishop Ridley in the Account of the Disputation at Oxford, 1544, says, "No person of any honesty, without thinking, could abide to hear the like spoken by a most vile varlet;" and Shakespeare, Jul, Cæs. ii. 1. 186, says,

"If he love Cæsar, all that he can do

Is to himself, take thoughtand die for Cæsar,"

and Hamletiii. 1. 84,

"And thus the native hue of resolution

Is sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought,"

and Ant. and Cleop. iii. 13. 1,

" Cleo. What shall we do, Enobarbus?

Eno. Think, and die."

See the Bible Word-Book, sub loc.; and Davies, Bible English, pp. 99, 100.

but whatsoever shall be given you Comp. Matthew 10:19-20, where the words occur as a portion of our Lord's charge to His Twelve Apostles. "These were very weighty words for the Roman Christians, at a time when the martyrdom of the Apostles Peter and Paul, in Rome, was about to take place." Lange.