Gird your loins and light your lamps.
Lk 12:35-40
Lk 12:35-40 consists of parables regarding vigilance while waiting for the re-turn of Jesus.
v.35. Gird your loins.
The people of Palestine wore long robes. Bringing them up and tying them with a belt would facilitate movement and work.
v. 36. Be like servants who await their master's return from a wedding, ready to open immediately when he comes and knocks.
The time of return from a wedding was unpredictable. It would be late into the night.
v. 39. Be sure of this: if the master of the house had known the hour when the thief was coming, he would not have let his house be broken into.
The walls of Palestinian houses were thin and made of mud. Entry would be easy. You just had to open a hole.
What are the disciples to be prepared for?
Originally, they had to be prepared for the death of Jesus and the crisis into which this would plunge the disciples. They should also be prepared for the destruction of Jerusalem which was punishment for the rejection of the Messiah.
After all these came to pass, the warning of Jesus was applied to the Parousia, that is, to the return of Jesus at the end of time.
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