Matthew Poole and continuators on Luke 12:36

36 And ye your selves like unto men that wait for their Lord, when he will return from the wedding, that when he cometh and knocketh, they may open unto him immediately.

The first Words of the fortieth Verse expound the thirty fifth▪ Be ye therefore always ready also. In this Sense we find the Phrase used, 1 Kings 18.46. 2 Kings 4.29. Ch. 9.1. Iob 38.3. & 40.7. Ier. 1.17. In those Eastern Countries, both Masters, and Servants were wont to wear long Garments, which they were wont to Gird up, either when they went to Fight, or when they were to Travel, Exod. 12.11. 1 Kings 18.46. or when they went about any Service, see Ch. 17.8. Iohn 13.4. this was a piece of their Preparation. We read of the Girding about of the Loyns of the mind with Truth, Eph. 6.14. and with habits of Grace and Vertue, 1 Pet. 1.13. wherefore Gird up the Loyns of your minds, be sober, and hope to the end. The other Phrase, and your Lights burning is of the same import, relating to the Lords coming from the Wedding, mentioned v. 36. For in those Countries, their Weddings were celebrated in the Night. Christ is coming to Judgment, whether our particular, or the more general Iudgment, is that, which is here set out to us, under the notion of a Mans coming home late at Night from a Wedding. Nor improperly, for in this Life Souls are united to Christ, Eph. 5▪ 32. when Christ shall have done his Work of that Nature upon the Earth, that all the Elect shall be gathered, then shall he come to Judge the World. He would have all his People be ready for that Day, and waiting for their Lord, that his coming may be welcome to them.