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Luke 12:36
and ye yourselves like unto men that wait for their lord when he will return from the wedding, that, when he cometh and knocketh, they may open unto him immediately.
and ye yourselves like unto men that wait for their lord when he will return from the wedding, that, when he cometh and knocketh, they may open unto him immediately.
Verse 36. _THAT WAIT FOR THEIR LORD_] Matthew 25:1, c. _THE WEDDING_] How the Jewish weddings were celebrated, see in the notes on Matthew 8:12; Matthew 22:13....
LET YOUR LOINS ... - This alludes to the ancient manner of dress. They wore a long flowing robe as their outer garment. See the notes at Matthew 5:38. When they labored, or walked, or ran, it was nece...
CHAPTER 12 _ 1. Warning Against Hypocrisy. (Luke 12:1)_ 2. Encouragements. (Luke 12:4) 3. Warning Against Covetousness. (Luke 12:15) 4. Warning Against Anxiety. ...
LUKE 12:35 THREE REFERENCES TO THE PAROUSIA. Luke 12:35 (with Luke 12:47 F.). THE NEED OF WATCHFULNESS. These verses, like Luke 13:25,
"Let your loins be girt and your lamps burning. Be like men who are waiting for their master to come home from the wedding feast, so that, when he comes and knocks, they will open to him immediately....
THE CREED OF COURAGE AND OF TRUST (Luke 12:1-12)...
THAT WAIT FOR. waiting, or looking, for. Greek. _prosdechomai,_ as in Luke 2:25; Luke 2:38; Luke 23:51.Mark 15:43.
_when he will return from the wedding_ The word here used (_pote analusei)_is very rare, occurring only in Philippians 1:23; 2 Timothy 4:6. Here there is a variation from the commoner metaphor of _goi...
Luke 9:51 to Luke 18:31_. Rejected by the Samaritans. A lesson of Tolerance._ This section forms a great episode in St Luke, which may be called the departure for the final conflict, and is identical...
LESSONS OF TRUSTFULNESS (22–32), ALMSGIVING (33, 34), AND FAITHFUL WATCHFULNESS (35–48). THE SEARCHING EFFECT OF CHRIST’S WORK (49–53)...
CHAPS. Luke 9:51 to Luke 18:31 This section forms a great episode in St Luke, which may be called the departure for the final conflict, and is identical with the journey (probably to the Feast of the...
ἈΝΘΡΏΠΟΙΣ. Slaves, Revelation 18:13. ΠΌΤΕ�. The word here used is very rare, occurring only in Philippians 1:23; 2 Timothy 4:6. Here there is a variation from the commoner metaphor of _going to_ the
Ver 35. Let your loins be girded about, and your lights burning; 36. And you yourselves like to men that wait for their lord, when he will return from the wedding; that when he comes and knocks, they...
ΠΡΟΣΔΕΧΟΜΈΝΟΙΣ _praes. med. (dep.) part. (adj.) от_ ΠΡΟΣΔΈΧΟΜΑΙ (G4327) ждать, ожидать. _Dat._ с _adj._ ΌΜΟΙΟΙ ("подобный"), ΆΝΑΛΎΣΗ _aor. conj. act. от_ ΆΝΑΛΎΩ (G360) разбивать, распускать, развязыв...
DISCOURSE: 1529 THE WATCHFUL SERVANT Luke 12:35. Let your loins be girded about, and your lights burning; and ye yourselves like unto men that wait for their lord, when he will return from the wedding...
LET YOUR LOINS BE GIRDED ABOUT— As the eastern nations wore long garments, it was necessary that, when they had any thing to do which required them to exert their strength or agility, they should tuck...
BUTLER'S COMMENTS SECTION 3 Action as Alertness (Luke 12:35-48) 35 Let your loins be girded and your lamps burning, 36and be like men who are waiting for their master to come home from the marriage...
And ye yourselves like unto men that wait for their lord, when he will return from the wedding; that when he cometh and knocketh, they may open unto him immediately. AND YE YOURSELVES LIKE UNTO MEN...
14 See Exo_2:14. 15 Compare 1Ti_6:6-10. 15 A telling truth which would do more to ameliorate the ills of humanity than all government, were it heeded, is embodied in the phrase, "the superfluity of...
EXHORTATION TO VIGILANCE. The greater part of it appears also (and most appropriately) in Matthew 24. The apostles and other ministers of the word are chiefly addressed, though there is a lesson for a...
THE LEAVEN OF THE PHARISEES. THE RICH FOOL 1-12. Jesus warns His followers against Pharisaic hypocrisy, and exhorts them to be courageous in face of opposition. This speech is not unsuitable to the co...
LUKE’S GOOD NEWS LUKE _HILDA BRIGHT_ CHAPTER 12 JESUS WARNS AND ENCOURAGES HIS *DISCIPLES 12:1-12 1 WARNING ABOUT THE FALSE LIVES OF THE *PHARISEES 12:1-3 V1 Thousands of people had gathered. T...
ἀναλύσῃ, when (πότε = ὁπότε) he shall _return_; the figure is taken from sailors making the return voyage to the port whence they had sailed, Beza (_vide_ Philippians 1:23; 2 Timothy 4:6). ἐλθόντος κα...
_Loins girt, lamps burning_. Connection with what goes before is not apparent, but there is a latent affinity which makes the introduction of this _logion_ here by Lk. or his source intelligible. The...
Luke 12:35-36 contain the germ of the parable of the _Ten Virgins_ (Matthew 25:1 f.). So De Wette, J. Weiss, Holtzmann, Schanz, etc. ὀσφύες περιεζωσμέναι, loins girt, for service. λύχνοι καιόμενοι, la...
EVER ON THE WATCH Luke 12:35-48 The Lord leads our thoughts on to His advent, when He will call His servants to account. The day may pass into the evening, the evening into the night, and the night m...
Knowing that the enmity of the rulers against Him would proceed also against His disciples, He told them not to be afraid of those who kill the body, remembering ever their Father's care, as revealed...
SOLICITUDE Luke 12:22-31. This item of our Savior's discourse is so identical with a paragraph in His Sermon on the Mount (Matthew 6), that I forbear quotation, the substantial repetition of the Great...
3 _d. To the Disciples: Luke 12:22-40_. Disengagement from earthly goods. The following exhortations suppose faith. The believer should renounce the pursuit of earthly goods: 1. From a feeling of enti...
_The Parable of the Master returning to his House._ “ _Let your loins be girded about, and your lights burning;_ 36. _And ye yourselves like unto men that wait for their lord, when he will return from...
(32) Fear not little flock; for it is your Father's good pleasure to give you the kingdom. (33) Sell that ye have, and give alms: provide yourselves bags which wax not old, a treasure in the heavens t...
The ninth chapter opens with the mission not the setting apart, but the circuit of the twelve sent out by the Lord, who therein was working after a fresh sort. He communicates power in grace to men, c...
_IDEALS LOST AND RECOVERED_ ‘Let your loins be girded about, and your lights burning: And ye yourselves like unto men that wait for their lord, when he will return from the wedding; that when he come...
Luke 12:36._And you yourselves like men that wait for their master. _He uses another parable not mentioned by Matthew, who writes more briefly on this subject; for he compares himself to _a householde...
chapter 12 puts the disciples into this place of testimony by the power of the Holy Ghost, and with the world opposed to them, after the Lord's departure. It is the word and the Holy Ghost, instead of...
AND YE YOURSELVES LIKE UNTO MEN THAT WAIT FOR THEIR LORD,.... Who either was at a wedding, or was the bridegroom himself; so be ye in a readiness, waiting for the coming of Christ, the bridegroom of t...
And ye yourselves like unto men that wait for their lord, when he will return from the wedding; that when he cometh and knocketh, they may open unto him immediately. Ver. 36. _And knocketh_] _sc._ By...
_Let your loins_, &c. Our Lord, having recommended to his disciples disengagement of affection from the things of this world, and a due moderation as to their esteem for, and cares about, earthly poss...
The faithful servant. Matthew 24:42-51....
WHEN HE WILL RETURN FROM THE WEDDING; either his own wedding, in which he is the bridegroom, or the wedding of a friend. Weddings were attended in the night; and servants were accustomed to sit up and...
THE PEOPLE WARNED AGAINST FALSE LEADERS (vs.1-12) At a time when the crowd was extremely large, the Lord addressed His disciples "first of all," warning them to beware of the leaven of the Pharisees,...
22-40 Christ largely insisted upon this caution not to give way to disquieting, perplexing cares, Matthew 6:25. The arguments here used are for our encouragement to cast our care upon God, which is t...
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Tertullian Against Marcion Book IV that is, our minds kindled by faith, and resplendent with the works of truth. And thus "to wait for our Lord,"[1188]...
Luke 12:36 and G2532 yourselves G5210 like G3664 men G444 wait G4327 (G5740) their G1438 master G2962 when...
“And be you yourselves like to men looking for their lord, when he shall return from the marriage feast, that, when he comes and knocks, they may open to him straight away.” And the servants themselve...
WHAT THE ATTITUDE OF HIS DISCIPLES SHOULD BE (12:35-40). The parable that follows confirms that Jesus will have been previously laying out the background to them (we know so little of the much that He...
THE FIRST PARABLE - THE SERVANTS IN READINESS (12:35-38). In this parable Jesus is dealing with the responsibility that all who claim to be His servants have for the whole world (the lord's house), al...
THIS division of the Gospel of Luke, embracing nearly one third of the whole, contains for the most part matter peculiar to this Evangelist. A number of the incidents probably belong to an earlier per...
Luke 12:36. WHEN HE WILL RETURN FROM THE MARRIAGE FEAST. The main thought is simply that He is away at a feast, and expected to return. In the parable of the Ten Virgins (Matthew 25:1-13), the return...
Luke 12:35-48. EXHORTATIONS TO WATCHFULNESS. The connection is with Luke 12:32: ‘It is your Father's good pleasure to give you the kingdom,' let that free you from anxiety; but let it be the motive to...
CONTENTS. A continuation of the discourse. Luke 12:35-48 contain exhortations to _watchfulness;_ the difference between the faithful and unfaithful servant suggests a difficulty in the way of faithful...
WHEN HE SHALL RETURN FROM THE MARRIAGE FEAST (ποτε αναλυση εκ των γαμων). The interrogative conjunction ποτε and the deliberative aorist subjunctive retained in the indirect question. The verb αναλυ...
Luke 12:35. Let your loins be girded about, and your lights burning; and ye yourselves like unto men that wait for their lord, when he will return from the wedding; that when he cometh and knocketh, t...
Luke 12:22. _And he said unto his disciples, Therefore I say unto you, Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat; neither for the body, what ye shall put on. The life is more than meat, and the...
Luke 12:13. _And one of the company said unto him, Master, speak to my brother, that he divide the inheritance with me. And he said unto him, Man, who made me a judge or a divider over you?_ Our Lord...
In this chapter, our Saviour dispels the fears of his disciples concerning temporal things, and especially their fear of persecution and their fear of want. Luke 12:1. In the mean time, when there we...
Luke 12:13. _And one of the company said unto him, Master, speak to my brother, that he divide the inheritance with me, And he said unto him, Man, who made me a judge or a divider over you?_ Our Lord...
CONTENTS: Jesus warns of leaven of the Pharisees. Parable of the rich fool. Parable of the second coming. Parable of the steward and his servants. Christ, the divider of men. CHARACTERS: Jesus, disci...
Luke 12:1. _There were gathered together an innumerable multitude of people._ The Greek is myriads, or ten thousands of people. Luke 12:5. _Power to cast into hell._ The Greek is Gehenna, as on Isaiah...
BE READY FOR WHATEVER COMES. People in the East wore long robes, which had to be tucked under their belts to get ready to travel. See notes on Matthew 24:42-44. AND YOUR LAMPS LIT. See notes on Matthe...
_Men that wait for their Lord_ OF THE BELIEVER’S READINESS FOR THE COMING OF CHRIST This readiness stands in watchfulness and fidelity. I. WATCHFULNESS. 1. Its nature. 2. Its ground. The servant’...
_And be ye yourselves like unto men looking for their lord._ This is the third precept of Christ, or rather the third part of the same precept. The first was to have their loins girt, the second to ha...
CHAPTER 12 VER. 1. _In the mean time when there were gathered together an innumerable multitude of people._ The Greek has "the myriads of the multitude." A myriad contains exactly ten thousand, and is...
_CRITICAL NOTES_ Luke 12:35. LOINS GIRDED.—An allusion to the long robes of the East, which those who wear them must bind up before they engage in any active employment. LIGHTS BURNING.—The same less...
EXPOSITION LUKE 12:1 _The Lord_,_ after leaving the Pharisee_'_s house_,_ speaks at great length to a numerous crowd waiting for him_,_ addressing his words principally to his own disciples. _The for...
Shall we turn in our Bibles to Luke's gospel, chapter 12. We are dealing with the final month in the ministry of Jesus. He has returned to Jerusalem. He will soon be leaving Jerusalem to go down to th...
2 Peter 1:13; Genesis 49:18; Isaiah 64:4; James 5:7; James 5:8;...
Shall return [α ν α λ υ σ η]. The verb means, originally, to unloose : so of vessels, to unloose their moorings and go to sea. Of departing generally. This is its sense in the only other passage where...