41. Martha, Martha--emphatically redoubling upon the name.
careful and cumbered--the one word expressing the inward
worrying anxiety that her preparations should be worthy of her Lord;
the other, the outward bustle of those preparations.
many things--"much service"
(Lu 10:40);
too elaborate preparation, which so engrossed her attention that she
missed her Lord's teaching.
JFB.
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