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Luke 17:4
And if he trespass against thee seven times a day, and seven times in a day turn again to thee, saying, I repent, thou shalt forgive him.
And if he trespass against thee seven times a day, and seven times in a day turn again to thee, saying, I repent, thou shalt forgive him.
See the notes at Matthew 18:15, Matthew 18:21. “Trespass against thee.” Sin against thee, or does anything that gives you an offence or does you an injury. REBUKE - Reprove. Go and tell him his fault,...
CHAPTER 17 _ 1. Concerning Offenses and Forgiveness. (Luke 17:1)_ 2. Increase of Faith and Lowly Service. (Luke 17:5) 3. The Ten Lepers. (Luke 17:11) 4. Concerning the Kingdom and His Second Coming...
LUKE 17. The chapter illustrates the difficulty experienced by Lk. in using the material at his disposal. He here brings together without any clear connexion of thought a selection of sayings of Chris...
Jesus said to his disciples, "It is impossible that snares to sin should not arise; but woe to him through whom they do arise! It would be better for him if a millstone were hung around his neck and h...
LAWS OF THE CHRISTIAN LIFE (Luke 17:1-10)...
SEVEN. On the former occasion "seventy" (Matthew 18:21; Matthew 18:22). No discrepancy. See App-97. TO. unto. Greek. _epi._ App-104.; but the texts read _pros._...
_seven times in a day_ A purely general expression, which as little involves the quantitative limitation of forgiveness upon repentance as the "seventy times seven" of Matthew 18:22. Some of the Rabbi...
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...
ἉΜΑΡΤΉΣΗΙ. The sense requires this, as special _acts_ are referred to. The ἁμάρτῃ is from Luke 17:3. 4. ἙΠΤΆΚΙΣ. A purely general expression, which as little involves the quantitative limitation of fo...
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...
VER 3. TAKE HEED TO YOURSELVES: IF YOUR BROTHER TRESPASS AGAINST YOU, REBUKE HIM; AND IF HE REPENT, FORGIVE HIM. 4. AND IF HE TRESPASS AGAINST YOU SEVEN TIMES IN A DAY, AND SEVEN TIMES IN A DAY TURN A...
ΈΠΤΆΚΙΣ (G2034) семь раз. Символизирует любое большое число (Arndt). ΗΜΈΡΑΣ _gen. sing. от_ ΗΜΈΡΑ (G2250) день. _Gen._ времени. ΆΜΑΡΤΉΣΗ _aor. conj. act., см._ Luke 17:3. _Conj._ с ΈΆΝ (G1437) в _co...
TAKE HEED TO YOURSELVES:— Our Lord speaks here concerning a quarrelsome temper in his servants, but especially in the ministers and teachers of religion;insinuating,thatmanygrievous temptations to sin...
Butler's Comments SECTION 1 Be Good (Luke 17:1-10) 17 And he said to his disciples, Temptations to sin are sure to come; but woe to him by whom they come! 2It would be better for him if a millstone w...
And if he trespass against thee seven times in a day, and seven times in a day turn again to thee, saying, I repent; thou shalt forgive him. AND IF HE TRESPASS AGAINST THEE SEVEN TIMES IN A DAY, AN...
1 The Lord is through with the unbelievers and now addresses His own disciples. He anticipates the fact that, even among themselves, there would be much to cause them to stumble and fall. He seeks to...
OCCASIONS OF OFFENCE. THE TEN LEPERS. THE SECOND ADVENT 1, 2. On causing others to sin. See on Matthew 18:6; Matthew 18:7. 2, ONE OF THESE LITTLE ONES] An affectionate designation of the disciples, e...
LUKE’S GOOD NEWS LUKE _HILDA BRIGHT_ CHAPTER 17 THE DANGER IF YOU CAUSE OTHER PEOPLE TO *SIN 17:1-2 V1 Jesus said to his *disciples, ‘Things will certainly happen that turn people away from God....
IF HE TRESPASS AGAINST THEE. — Better, _if he sin._ The better MSS. omit the words, “against thee,” and so make the command more general, and the verb is the same as that in Matthew 18:21, the teachin...
_Concerning offences and forgiving of offences_ (_cf._ Matthew 18:6-7; Matthew 21:22). ἀνένδεκτον : here only in N.T. and hardly found in classics; with ἐστι = οὐκ ἐνδέχεται (Luke 13:33), it is not po...
ἑπτάκις τῆς ἡμέρας, seven times a day. The number recalls Peter's question (Matthew 18:21), and the phrase seven times _a day_ states the duty of forgiving as broadly as Mt.'s seventy times seven, but...
“TAKE HEED TO YOURSELVES” Luke 17:1-10 The world is full of stumbling-blocks. Men are perpetually placing them in each other's way; and especially before little children, the simple and the weak. Le...
The thinking of the Master for His disciples is always that they should live in love. He knew, however, that offenses must come. In that connection He uttered the solemn word of warning, "Woe unto him...
FORGIVENESS INDEFINITE Luke 17:3-4. _“Take heed unto yourselves: If thy brother may sin, correct him: if he may repent, forgive him. And if he may sin against thee seven times a day, and turn unto the...
VERS. 3 AND 4. _The Pardon of Trespasses._ “ _If thy brother trespass against thee, rebuke him; and if he repent, forgive him._ 4. _And if he trespass against thee seven times in a day, and seven time...
7. _Various Sayings: Luke 17:1-10_. This piece contains four brief lessons, placed here without introduction, and between which it is impossible to establish a connection. Olshausen and Meyer have att...
(3) Take heed to yourselves: If thy brother trespass against thee, rebuke him; and if he repent, forgive him. (4) And if he trespass against thee seven times in a day, and seven times in a day turn ag...
The last chapter gave in the judgment of present things, another world and eternal things in good and evil, the Lord's instruction for the disciples after the dealings of grace in Luke 15:1-32, and th...
Grace is the spring of the Christian's walk, and furnishes directions for it. He cannot with impunity (chapter 17) despise the weak. He must not be weary of pardoning his brother. If he have faith but...
AND IF HE TRESPASS AGAINST THEE SEVEN TIMES IN A DAY,.... For good men are frequently apt to fall into sin, and offend both God and man; see Proverbs 24:16 "and seven times in a day turn again to thee...
And if he trespass against thee seven times in a day, and seven times in a day turn again to thee, saying, I repent; thou shalt forgive him. Ver. 4. See Matthew 18:21 ....
_Take heed to yourselves_ That you may neither offend others, nor be offended by others, but that you may keep all your passions under proper regulation, and may be preserved from those resentments of...
Forgiveness. Matthew 18:15-22....
INCREASE OUR FAITH; see note on Matthew 17:20....
GRACE IN VIEW OF OFFENSES (vs.1-4) We have seen the grace of God clearly and beautifully declared, yet the world rejecting it. The Lord Jesus then spoke to His disciples. What should be their attitud...
1-10 It is no abatement of their guilt by whom an offence comes, nor will it lessen their punishment that offences will come. Faith in God's pardoning mercy, will enable us to get over the greatest d...
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Tertullian Against Marcion Book IV thus teaches who forbids your refusing to bring back even your brother's cattle, if you find them astray in the road; much more should you bring back your erring br...
Luke 17:4 And G2532 if G1437 sins G264 (G5632) against G1519 you G4571 times G2034 day G2250 and...
THE NEED TO FORGIVE READILY (17:3-4). Jesus also stresses the need to forgive readily those who recognise their faults. Being unwilling readily to forgive could easily result in causing the weak who h...
THE DISCIPLES' RESPONSIBILITY TOWARDS GOD'S PEOPLE AND THE WARNING NOT TO GET ABOVE THEMSELVES BECAUSE OF WHAT THEY WILL ACCOMPLISH (17:1-10). Some have spoken here of ‘separate sayings' but there is...
Luke 17:4. TURN AGAIN TO THEE. Confession is plainly demanded here, as rebuke had been in Luke 17:3. Christian confession may be as rare as proper Christian rebuke....
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...
PART of the discourse began in chap. Luke 15:4, and addressed to the disciples (Luke 17:1). Some of the thoughts are found in Matthew 18, but the latter part of the section is peculiar to Luke....
SEVEN TIMES IN A DAY (επτακις της ημερας). Seven times within the day. On another occasion Peter's question (Matthew 18:21) brought Christ's answer "seventy times seven" (verse Luke 17:22), which s...
TRESPASS SIN (_ See Scofield) - (Romans 3:23). _...
Luke 17:1. _Then said he unto the disciples, It is impossible but that offences will come: but woe unto him, through whom they come!_ Since the fall, we are so constituted that there are sure to be d...
Luke 17:1. _Then said he unto the disciples, It is impossible but that offences will come:_ We are so strangely made that even good men do not always agree, and there are so many bad men about that t...
CONTENTS: Instruction in forgiveness. Parable of service. Ten lepers healed. Second coming of Jesus foretold. CHARACTERS: Jesus, disciples, ten lepers, Pharisees, Noah, Lot, Lot's wife. CONCLUSION:...
Luke 17:1. _It is impossible but that offences will come._ Such as the disciples had just seen, the contempt and derision evinced by the pharisees; but woe to the man, and woe to the nation which shal...
IF YOUR BROTHER SINS, REBUKE HIM. Note that a rebuke and forgiveness are both duties. Compare Galatians 6:1-2. See notes on Matthew 18:15-22....
_It is impossible but that offences will come_ WHERE SIN OCCURS, GOD CANNOT WISELY PREVENT IT The doctrine of this text is that sin, under the government of God, cannot be prevented. 1. When we say...
LUKE—NOTE ON LUKE 17:3 IF YOUR BROTHER SINS refers here to individual acts of sin. IF HE REPENTS, FORGIVE HIM... SEVEN TIMES. In Judaism it was considered honorable to forgive three times. (See note o...
CHAPTER 17 VER. 5. _And the Apostles said to the Lord, Increase our faith._ The Apostles said this, when, from their little faith, they had been unable to cast out the devil from the lunatic. They the...
_CRITICAL NOTES_ Luke 17:1. THEN SAID HE.—Rather, “And he said” (R.V.). The previous discourse had been addressed to the Pharisees; we have now detached sayings addressed, probably on various occasion...
EXPOSITION LUKE 17:1 _The_ _Master_'_s teaching on the subject of the injury worked on the souls of others by our sins. The disciples pray for an increase of faith that they may be kept from such sin...
Now He turns again to His disciples. Then said he unto his disciples, It is impossible but that offenses will come (Luke 17:1): You cannot help if you're living in this world, you're going to have of...
1 Corinthians 13:4; 2 Thessalonians 3:13; 2 Thessalonians 3:14; Colossians 3:12;...
If he sin against thee seven times in a day, and seven times in a day return, saying, I repent — That is, if he give sufficient proof that he does really repent, after having sinned ever so often, rec...