Hoping for nothing, but merely impelled by a desire of doing good. They who only give when sure of having a greater return, do not give, but traffic with their generosity; in which there is no charity. (Haydock)
LUKE 6:35 mhde,n {B} The reading mhde,na avpelpi,zontej (“despairing of no one”), which introduces into the context an alien motive, appears to have arisen in transcription, the result of dittograph...
Verse 35. _LOVE YE YOUR ENEMIES_] This is the most sublime precept ever delivered to man: a false religion durst not give a precept of this nature, because, without _supernatural_ influence, it must...
See this passage fully illustrated in the sermon on the mount, in Matt. 5–7. Luke 6:21 THAT HUNGER NOW - Matthew has it, “that hunger and thirst after righteousness.” Matthew has expressed more full...
CHAPTER 6 _ 1. The Son of Man the Lord of the Sabbath. (Luke 6:1)_ 2. The Man with the Withered Hand Healed. (Luke 6:6) 3. The Twelve Apostles Chosen. (Luke 6:12) 4. Blessing and Woe. ...
THE LOVE OF ENEMIES (Matthew 5:39 *, Matthew 7:12 *). While Mt.'s main point is the contrast between legal and true righteousness, Lk.'s main point is that true righteousness is love; he contrasts the...
THE SERMON ON THE LEVEL PLACE. This is much briefer than Matthew 5-7. The sections in Mt. that illustrate the fulfilment of the Law are omitted; more stress is laid on love and mercy. Other parallels...
THE INCREASING OPPOSITION (Luke 6:1-5)...
Jesus said, "But to you who are listening I say, Love your enemies, do good to those who hate you, bless those who curse you, pray for those who ill-use you. To him who strikes you on one cheek offer...
GREAT. Emph. by Figure of speech _Hyperbaton._ App-6. CHILDREN. sons. App-108. THE HIGHEST. Put by Figure of speech _Metonymy_ (of Adjunct) for Him Who is on high. See note on Luke 1:32. UNTO. Gre...
_hoping for nothing again_ See Psalms 15:5, with the Rabbinic comment that God counts it as universal obedience if any one lends without interest. The words may also mean DESPAIRING IN NOTHING, or (if...
ΜΗΔῈΝ� ABD. μηδένα א. ΠΟΛΎΣ. A adds the explanatory gloss ἐν οὐρανῷ. 35. ΠΛΉΝ. ‘However.’ This conjunction is used by St Luke much more frequently than by the other N. T. writers. From this passage...
THE LAWS OF LOVE AND MERCY [27–30. The _manifestations_ of Love. 31. Its formula. 32–35. Its distinctiveness. 35–36. Its model. 37–45. Love as the principle of all judgment. Godet.]...
Ver 32. For if you love them which love you, what thank have you? for sinners also love those that love them. 33. And if you do good to them which do good to you, what thank have you? for sinners also...
ΆΠΕΛΠΊΖΟΝΤΕΣ _praes. act. part. от_ ΆΠΕΛΠΊΖΩ (G560) надеяться получить что-л. взамен (Arndt) или сдаваться, отчаиваться (Plummer). В медицинском языке используется для обозначения болезни, от которой...
HOPING FOR NOTHING AGAIN;— _Distrusting nothing._ "Shew these acts of kindness to your brethren, not at all despairing either of your present sustenance, or of your future reward." See Beza....
BUTLER'S COMMENTS SECTION 4 Magnanimous (Luke 6:27-45) 27 But I say to you that hear, Love your enemies, do good to those who hate you, 28bless those who curse you, pray for those who abuse you. 29T...
APPLEBURY'S COMMENTS _Regulations for Conduct Scripture_ Luke 6:27-38 But I say unto you that hear, Love your enemies do good to them that hate you, 28 bless them that curse you, pray for them that d...
_BUT I SAY UNTO YOU WHICH HEAR, LOVE YOUR ENEMIES, DO GOOD TO THEM WHICH HATE YOU,_ No JFB commentary on these verses....
32-36 Compare Mat_5:44-48. 35 We have here the substance of the new covenant which the Lord will make with Israel when He restores them to their land and to His favor (Jer_31:27-34). After those days,...
CHOICE OF THE TWELVE. SERMON IN THE PLAIN 1-5. Plucking the ears of corn (Matthew 12:1; Mark 2:23). See on Mt and Mk....
GREAT SERMON TO THE DISCIPLES AND IN PART TO THE MULTITUDES. It forms here the ordination address of the Twelve. In what sense it is identical with the Sermon on the Mount is explained on Matthew 5:1....
LUKE’S GOOD NEWS LUKE _HILDA BRIGHT_ CHAPTER 6 HOW TO USE THE *SABBATH 6:1-11 1. THE *DISCIPLES IN THE FIELDS OF CORN 6:1-5 V1 Jesus was walking through some fields of wheat on a *Sabbath. His...
LOVE YE YOUR ENEMIES. — The tense of the Greek verb may be noted as implying a perpetual abiding rule of action. HOPING FOR NOTHING AGAIN. — Better, _in nothing losing hope._ It is possible that the G...
CHAPTER 15 THE KINGDOM OF GOD. IN considering the words of Jesus, if we may not be able to measure their depth or to scale their height, we can with absolute certainty discover their drift, and see i...
πλὴν, _but_, in opposition to all these hypothetical cases. μηδὲν ἀπελπίζοντες, “hoping for nothing again,” A. V [67], is the meaning the context requires, and accepted by most interpreters, though th...
_The Sermon_ (Matthew 5-7). That it is the same sermon as Mt. reports in Chapter s 5 7 may be regarded as beyond discussion. How, while the same, they came to be so different, is a question not quite...
_The law of love_ (Matthew 5:38-48)....
HOW TO TREAT OUR FELLOW-MEN Luke 6:27-38 Luke's version of the Sermon on the Mount differs from that of Matthew, only as each views the great discourse from his own standpoint. By one it is viewed a...
In a synagogue our Lord healed the man with a withered hand, and the religious watchers were filled with anger because, according to their view, our Lord had desecrated the Sabbath. Surely, there is n...
But love ye your enemies, and do good, and lend, (h) hoping for nothing again; and your reward shall be great, and ye shall be the children of the Highest: for he is kind unto the unthankful and [to]...
CHAPTER 16 SERMON ON THE MOUNT Matthew 5-7, and Luke 6:20-49. A few days ago it was my privilege to spend two beautiful bright days at the sea of Galilee, sailing over it, and visiting the places of...
4 _th. The model and source_ of the charity which Jesus has just depicted: Luke 6:35 b and 36. “ _And your reward shall be great, and ye shall be the children of the Highest: for He is kind to the unt...
THIRD CYCLE: FROM THE ELECTION OF THE TWELVE TO THEIR FIRST MISSION, LUKE 6:12 TO LUKE 8:56. In the following section we shall see the Galilean ministry reach its zenith; it begins with the institutio...
2 _d. Luke 6:20-49_. _The Sermon._ The aim, prevailing thought, and plan of this discourse have been understood in many different ways. The solution of these questions is rendered more difficult by th...
3 _d._ The _distinguishing characteristic_ of charity, disinterestedness: Luke 6:32-35 _a._ “ _And if ye love them which love you, what thank have ye? For sinners also love those that love them._ 33....
(20) And he lifted up his eyes on his disciples, and said, Blessed be ye poor; for your's is the kingdom of God. (21) Blessed are ye that hunger now: for ye shall be filled. Blessed are ye that weep n...
The preface of Luke's gospel is as instructive as the introduction of either of the two preceding gospels. It is obvious to any serious reader that we enter a totally different province, though all be...
Luke 6:35._Lend, expecting nothing again. _It is a mistake to confine this statement to usury, as if Christ only forbade his people to be usurers. The preceding part of the discourse shows clearly, th...
The circumstances related in Luke 6:1-10 have reference to the same truth, and in an important aspect. The sabbath was the sign of the covenant between Israel and God rest after finished works. The Ph...
BUT LOVE YE YOUR ENEMIES,.... As before urged in Luke 6:27 AND DO GOOD AND LEND; not to your friends only, but to your enemies; HOPING FOR NOTHING AGAIN; either principal or interest, despairing of...
But love ye your enemies, and do good, and lend, hoping for nothing again; and your reward shall be great, and ye shall be the children of the Highest: for he is kind unto the unthankful and _to_ the...
_If ye love them which love you, what thank have ye_ What great thanks are due to you on that account? For there are some sentiments of gratitude common even to the worst of men, which incline the mos...
BLESSED BE YE POOR; for the meaning of these beatitudes and their opposite woes, ver Luke 6:20-26, see notes on the beatitudes in Matthew 5:3-12. See sermon on mount. Matthew 5:39-48;...
BUT LOVE YE YOUR ENEMIES, AND DO GOOD, AND LEND, HOPING FOR NOTHING AGAIN; AND YOUR REWARD SHALL BE GREAT, AND YE SHALL BE THE CHILDREN OF THE. HIGHEST; FOR HE IS KIND UNTO THE UNTHANKFUL AND TO THE E...
The application of the Golden Rule:...
LORD OF THE SABBATH (vs.1-11) "The second Sabbath after the first" is literally translated the "second-first Sabbath" (JND trans.), an unusual expression. The first Sabbath was that following the Pas...
27-36 These are hard lessons to flesh and blood. But if we are thoroughly grounded in the faith of Christ's love, this will make his commands easy to us. Every one that comes to him for washing in his...
Ver. 35,36. I know not how to agree, what I find many interpreters judging, that this text is a prohibition of usury. I should rather interpret it more largely, as a command for acts of mercy, with re...
Dialogue of Justin For He taught us to pray for our enemies also, saying, `Love your enemies; be kind and merciful, as your heavenly Father is.'[372] Clement of Alexandria The Instructor Book I Now...
Luke 6:35 But G4133 love G25 (G5720) your G5216 enemies G2190 G2532 good G15 (G5720) and G253
THE REASON WHY CHRISTIANS SHOULD LOVE THE UNDESERVING (6:35) g But love your enemies (Luke 6:35 a), h And do them good (Luke 6:35 b), k And lend, never despairing (Luke 6:35 c), f And your reward...
TRUE LOVE IS ALL IMPORTANT AND MUST BE PRACTICALLY EXPRESSED (6:27-38). (This section is all about loving and giving and proceeds in a 4 4 6 6 4 4 pattern). ‘But I say to you who hear (Luke 6:27 a)....
JESUS PROCLAIMS THE NEW LAW OF THE KINGLY RULE OF GOD (6:20-49). Like Matthew 5-7 this ‘sermon' or ‘address' is carefully put together and patterned, but, in spite of similarities, we would be mistake...
Luke 6:32-36. See on Matthew 5:45-48; where, however, the order is different. In Luke 6:32-33, thank (lit. ‘grace') corresponds with ‘reward' in Matthew. Never despairing ...
ON THE PLAN of the Sermon on the Mount, see the Chapter comments on Matthew 5. The subject both here and in Matthew is the state and duties of a citizen of the kingdom of heaven. Van Oosterzee gives t...
BUT (πλην). Plain adversative like πλην in verse Luke 6:24. Never despairing (μηδεν απελπιζοντες). Μηδεν is read by A B L Bohairic and is the reading of Westcott and Hort. The reading μηδενα is tran...
CONTENTS: Jesus and the Sabbath. Healing of a withered hand. Choosing of the twelve. Sermon on the Mount. Parable of the house built on a rock. CHARACTERS: God, Jesus, disciples, Pharisees, David, ma...
Luke 6:1. _On the second sabbath after the first._ The Hebrew law is, Leviticus 23:11, on the morrow after the sabbath, the priest shall wave the sheaf east and west, north and south, to denote the un...
LOVE YOUR ENEMIES. See notes on Matthew 5:38-48....
_And ye shall be the children of the Highest_ THE CHRISTIAN AIM AND MOTIVE 1st. The Christian aim--perfection. 2nd. The Christian motive--because it is right and Godlike to be perfect. I. THE CHRIS...
LUKE—NOTE ON LUKE 6:12 Jesus appoints 12 apostles, then gives extended teaching to a large group of disciples, including what is often called the “Sermon on the Plain” (vv. Luke 6:20; compare the “Ser...
LUKE—NOTE ON LUKE 6:35 YOU WILL BE SONS does not mean “you will become sons” but “you will demonstrate that you are sons” by imitating God’s care and compassion even for those who are evil. For MOST H...
JESUS TEACHES ABOUT LOVING ENEMIES MATTHEW 5:43-48; LUKE 6:27-36; MATTHEW 5:43 Ye have heard that it hath been said, Thou shalt love thy neighbour, and hate thine enemy....
CHAPTER 6 VER. 1. _And it came to pass on the second Sabbath after the first._ On the second Sabbath. The Arabic version. What was this Sabbath? 1. The eighth day of unleavened bread or the last day...
_CRITICAL NOTES_ Luke 6:20.—Though various opinions have been held on the subject, the balance of probabilities seems in favour of the supposition that the discourse commonly known as the Sermon on th...
EXPOSITION LUKE 6:1 _The Lord_'_s teaching on the question of the observance of the sabbath._ LUKE 6:1 AND IT CAME TO PASS ON THE SECOND SABBATH AFTER THE FIRST. The expression accompanying this n...
Now it came to pass on the second Sabbath (Luke 6:1) Now He is going to deal with a couple of instances on the Sabbath day. We've been introduced now to the Pharisees; they're beginning to really get...
1 John 3:10; 1 John 4:7; 2 Corinthians 8:9; Acts 14:17; John 13:35;...
Hoping for nothing again [μ η δ ε ν α π ε λ π ι ζ ο ν τ ε ς]. A later Greek word, only here in New Testament, and meaning originally to give up in despair, a sense which is adopted by some high author...