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Luke 12:37
Blessed are those servants whom the lord when he cometh shall find watching; verily I say unto you that he shall gird himself, and make them to sit down to meat, and will come forth and serve them.
Blessed are those servants whom the lord when he cometh shall find watching; verily I say unto you that he shall gird himself, and make them to sit down to meat, and will come forth and serve them.
Verse 37. _HE SHALL GIRD HIMSELF_] Alluding to the long garments which were worn in the eastern countries; and which, in _travelling_ and _serving_, were _tucked up_ in their _belts_. That those amon...
SHALL GIRD HIMSELF - Shall take the place of the servant himself. Servants who waited on the table were girded in the manner described above. SHALL MAKE THEM SIT ... - Shall place them at his table an...
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)...
BLESSED. Happy. SERVANTS. bondman. WATCHING. Greek. _gregoreo,_ as in 1 Thessalonians 5:6; 1 Thessalonians 5:10 (wake). VERILY. See note on Matthew 5:18....
_he shall gird himself and make them to sit down to meat_ Doubtless some of the Apostles must have recalled these words when Jesus washed their feet. To Roman readers the words would recall the custom...
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...
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...
LESSONS OF TRUSTFULNESS (22–32), ALMSGIVING (33, 34), AND FAITHFUL WATCHFULNESS (35–48). THE SEARCHING EFFECT OF CHRIST’S WORK (49–53)...
ΠΕΡΙΖΏΣΕΤΑΙ ΚΑῚ�. Doubtless some of the Apostles must have recalled these words when Jesus washed their feet. To Roman readers the words would recall the customs of their Saturnalia when slaves were w...
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...
ΈΛΘΏΝ _aor. act. part. (temp.), см._ Luke 12:36. ΕΎΡΉΣΕΙ _fut. ind. act. от_ ΕΎΡΊΣΚΩ (G2147) находить, ΓΡΗΓΟΡΟΎΝΤΑΣ _praes. act. part. (adj.) от_ ΓΡΗΓΟΡΈΩ (G1127) бодрствовать, сторожить. ΠΕΡΙΖΏΣΕΤΑ...
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...
WILL COME FORTH, AND SERVE THEM, &C.— It was usual for servants to sit at table, and for the master to wait upon them, among the Babylonians, at their feast called _Saccas;_ among the Cretans, in thei...
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...
Blessed are those servants, whom the lord when he cometh shall find watching: verily I say unto you, that he shall gird himself, and make them to sit down to meat, and will come forth and serve them....
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...
HE SHALL GIRD HIMSELF. — The words give a new significance to the act of our Lord in John 13:4. Their real fulfilment is to be found, it need hardly be said, in the far-off completion of the Kingdom,...
μακάριοι : here as always implying rare felicity the reward of heroic virtue. ἀμὴν : the Hebrew word retained here contrary to custom, introducing a startling thought, the inversion of the relation of...
_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...
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...
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...
BLESSED ARE THOSE SERVANTS WHOM THE LORD,.... The Syriac, Arabic, and Ethiopic versions read, "their Lord", the master of them, or the Lord Jesus Christ: WHEN HE COMETH SHALL FIND WATCHING: for him,...
Blessed _are_ those servants, whom the lord when he cometh shall find watching: verily I say unto you, that he shall gird himself, and make them to sit down to meat, and will come forth and serve them...
_Blessed are those servants_, &c. And blessed also will you be, if this shall be your case: _verily, he shall gird himself, and make them sit down to meat_ The master of such servants, pleased with th...
The faithful servant. Matthew 24:42-51....
COME FORTH AND SERVE THEM; he will greatly honor and bless them....
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...
Ver. 37-40. The duty which Christ is here pressing upon his hearers is watchfulness, which signifieth: 1. A negation of sleep; 2. An industrious keeping ourselves awake with reference to some particu...
Irenaeus Against Heresies Book V And if He shall come in the evening watch, and find them so, blessed are they, because He shall make them sit down, and minister to them; or if this be in the second,...
Luke 12:37 Blessed G3107 those G1565 servants G1401 whom G3739 master G2962 comes G2064 (G5631) find G2147 ...
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...
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...
“Blessed are those servants, whom the lord when he comes will find watching.” Jesus then points out that those servants who are found ready and watching when the lord returns will be truly blessed. N...
Luke 12:37. BLESSED, etc. The blessedness of these faithful servants is set forth in a figure. GIRD HIMSELF, to serve them. Comp. John 13:4, which foreshadows the ministering condescension of the ma...
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...
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...
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...
HE SHALL GIRD HIMSELF (περιζωσετα). Direct future middle. Jesus did this (John 13:4), not out of gratitude, but to give the apostles an object lesson in humility. See the usual course in Luke 17:7-1...
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...
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 12:22. _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 12:35. 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...
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’...
LUKE—NOTE ON LUKE 12:37 RECLINE AT TABLE describes the end-time messianic banquet (compare Luke 13:29;...
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...
1 Corinthians 2:9; 1 Peter 5:1; 2 Peter 1:11; 2 Peter 3:14; 2 Timot
Watching. See on Mark 13:35. Gird himself. As a servant girding up his loose garments to wait on the table. Serve. See on minister, Matthew 20:26....
He will come and serve them — The meaning is, he will show them his love, in the most condescending and tender manner....
Here our Saviour makes use of several arguments to enforce the duty of watchfulness upon his disciples; the first is drawn from the transcendent reward which Christ will bestow upon his watchful serva...