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Depart in peace; a usual form of salutation, wherein, under the name of peace, they wished all prosperity and happiness to them they greeted, Mar_5:34 Luk_7:50 8:48.
Be ye warmed; i.e. be ye clothed; the warmth here mentioned being such as is procured by clothes, Job_31:20.
And be ye filled, or, satisfied with food; a metaphor from the fatting of cattle with grass or hay. The same word is used, Mat_14:20 Mar_6:42 Phi_4:12. These two good wishes answer the two former great wants.
Notwithstanding ye give them not those things which are needful to the body; understand, when yet ye are able to relieve them; for he speaks to the rich, or such as were in a capacity of being helpful to others.
What doth it profit? Either, what do your good words and charitable wishes profit them, without charitable deeds? Or, what do they profit yourselves? Or both may be included: as your fair speeches convey no real good to them, so they bring in no reward to you from God.