{Ten virgins} (deka parthenois). No special point in the
number ten. The scene is apparently centered round the house of
the bride to which the bridegroom is coming for the wedding
festivities. But Plummer places the scene near the house of the
bridegroom who has gone to bring the bride home. It is not
pertinent to the point of the parable to settle it. {Lamps}
(lampadas). Probably torches with a wooden staff and a dish on
top in which was placed a piece of rope or cloth dipped in oil or
pitch. But sometimes lampas has the meaning of oil lamp
(luchnos) as in Ac 20:8 . That may be the meaning here
(Rutherford, _New Phrynichus_).
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