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Luke 18:2
saying, There was in a city a judge which feared not God, neither regarded man,
saying, There was in a city a judge which feared not God, neither regarded man,
Verse Luke 18:2. _A JUDGE, WHICH FEARED NOT GOD, NEITHER REGARDED MAN_] It is no wonder that our Lord calls this person an _unrighteous judge_, Luke 18:6. No person is worthy to be put in the sacred...
A JUDGE WHICH FEARED NOT GOD - One appointed by law to determine causes brought before him. This judge had no reverence for God, and consequently no regard for the rights of man. These two things go t...
CHAPTER 18 _ 1. The Unjust Judge and the Avenging of His Elect. (Luke 18:1)_ 2. The Parable of the Pharisee and the Publican. (Luke 18:9) 3. The Little Children and the Required Lowliness. (Luke 18...
PARABLE OF THE UNRIGHTEOUS JUDGE (Lk. only). There is a connexion with the preceding sayings; the Advent may be delayed, yet the disciples should incessantly pray for it it will surely come. The parab...
UNWEARIED IN PRAYER (Luke 18:1-8)...
Jesus spoke a parable to them to show that it is necessary always to pray and not to lose heart. "There was a judge," he said, "in a town who neither feared God nor respected man. There was a widow in...
IN. Greek. _en._ App-104. GOD. App-98. NEITHER. Greek. _me._ App-105. REGARDED. Greek. _entrepomai._ Compare Matthew 21:37. MAN. Greek. _anthropos._ App-123....
_a judge_ Rather, A CERTAIN JUDGE. The little story is not improbably taken from life, and doubtless the inferior judges under such a sovereignty as that of the Herods might afford many instances of c...
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...
ΚΡΙΤΉΣ ΤΙΣ. ‘A certain judge.’ The little story is not improbably taken from life, and doubtless the inferior judges under such a sovereignty as that of the Herods might afford many instances of carel...
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...
Luke 18:1-8. THE DUTY OF URGENT PRAYER. THE UNJUST JUDGE...
par Ver 1. And he spoke a parable to them to this end, that men ought always to pray, and not to faint; 2. Saying, There was in a city a judge, which feared not God, neither regarded man: 3. And ther...
ΦΟΒΟΎΜΕΝΟΣ _praes. med. (dep.) part. (adj.) от_ ΦΟΒΈΟΜΑΙ (G5399) бояться, страшиться. ΈΝΤΡΕΠΌΜΕΝΟΣ _praes. med. (dep.) part. (adj.) от_ ΈΝΤΡΈΠΟΜΑΙ (G1788) смущать, стыдить; _med._ почитать. В этом отн...
BUTLER'S COMMENTS SECTION 1 Pessimism (Luke 18:1-8) 18 And he told them a parable, to the effect that they ought always to pray and not lose heart. 2He said, In a certain city there was a judge who...
Saying, There was in a city a judge, which feared not God, neither regarded man: SAYING, THERE WAS IN A [CERTAIN] CITY [ en (G1722 ) tini (G5100 ) polei ...
22-25 Compare Luk_5:35; Mat_24:23-27; Mar_13:21-23; Joh_13:33. 25 Compare Luk_9:22. 26-27 Compare Mat_24:37-39; Gen. 7. 26 The unexpected suddenness of the coming of the Son of Mankind is further en...
18:2 city, (b-8) Lit. 'a certain judge in a certain city.'...
A JUDGE] Probably a heathen judge, because, (1) The local Jewish tribunals consisted of three judges, and (2) Jewish judges (at least in NT. times) had no such evil reputation. They were required to h...
THE UNJUST JUDGE. THE PHARISEE AND THE PUBLICAN. THE RICH RULER 1-8. The Unjust Judge (peculiar to Lk). There is a close connexion with what precedes. The mention of the Second Advent leads Christ to...
LUKE’S GOOD NEWS LUKE _HILDA BRIGHT_ CHAPTER 18 TWO *PARABLES ABOUT PRAYER 18:1-14 1 THE WIDOW AND THE JUDGE 18:1-8 V1 Jesus told his *disciples a *parable. It showed that they should continue...
THERE WAS IN A CITY A JUDGE. — The words have an interest historically, as testifying to the general disorganisation and corruption of justice which prevailed under the then government of Galilee and...
Luke 18:1 CHAPTER 11 CONCERNING PRAYER. WHEN the Greeks called man ό ανθρωπος, or the "uplooking one," they did but crystallize in a word what is a universal fact, the religious instinct of humanit...
_The parable_. τὸν Θεόν, etc.: a proverbial description for a thoroughly unprincipled man (examples from classics in Wetstein). ἐντρεπόμενος, having respect for, with accusative, as in late Greek; in...
_The unjust judge_, in Lk. only....
THE LESSON FOR DARK DAYS Luke 18:1-8 There are three phases in our Lord's teaching about prayer-that of Matthew 6:1-34; Luke 18:1-43, and the words of John 14:1-31; John 15:1-27. In Luke 18:1-8 He e...
Two parables on prayer are here given. The first insists on its necessity as an alternative to fainting. The second reveals the secrets of prevailing prayer, namely, humility and a deep sense of need....
(b) Saying, There was in a city a judge, which feared not God, neither regarded man: (b) He does not compare things that are of equal stature, but the less with the greater: If a man receives what is...
This judge, who feared not God, nor cared for man, yet yielded to the importunity of the widow, represents the absolute and sovereign power of God. But we must not suppose the Almighty has any of the...
CHAPTER 15 THE UNJUST JUDGE AND THE INDEFATIGABLE WIDOW Luke 18:1-8. This paragraph on the Lord's second coming begins with the twenty-second verse of the seventeenth chapter, and runs through the ei...
3 _d. Luke 18:1-8_. _The Widow and the Unjust Judge._ This parable is peculiar to Luke. The formula ἔλεγε δὲ καί, “Furthermore, hear this also,” announces it as the conclusion of the whole discourse...
(1) And he spake a parable unto them to this end, that men ought always to pray, and not to faint; (2) Saying, There was in a city a judge, which feared not God, neither regarded man: (3) And there wa...
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...
SAYING, THERE WAS IN A CITY A JUDGE,.... In every city in the land of Israel, there was a sanhedrim, or court of judicature; in Jerusalem was the great sanhedrim, consisting of seventy one; and in eve...
Saying, There was in a city a judge, which feared not God, neither regarded man: Ver. 2. _Which feared not God, nor regarded man_] These two, fear of God and shame of the world, God hath given to men...
_There was in a city a judge, which feared not God_, &c. This magistrate, being governed by atheistical principles, had no inducement from religion to do justice; at the same time, being very powerful...
GRACE PRODUCING PERSISTENT PRAYER (vs.1-8) This section connects with the subjects of chapter 17. We have seen in the four sections of that chapter that the gospel of grace produces in the believer...
1-8 All God's people are praying people. Here earnest steadiness in prayer for spiritual mercies is taught. The widow's earnestness prevailed even with the unjust judge: she might fear lest it should...
Ver. 2-8. We have here the parable, and the interpretation thereof, both, LUKE 18:1, in the _proparabole, _ or the words immediately going before it, and also in an _epiparabole, _ or some words follo...
Irenaeus Against Heresies Book V This is also the unjust judge, whom the Lord mentioned as one "who feared not God, neither regarded man,"[221] Tertullian The Prescription Against Heretics The wido...
Luke 18:2 saying G3004 (G5723) was G2258 (G5713) in G1722 certain G5100 city G4172 a G5100 judge...
‘Saying, “There was in a city a judge, who feared not God, and regarded not man,” ' The parable opens with the description of a city judge who is absolutely resolute. He fears neither God nor man. He...
THE PARABLE OF THE UNRIGHTEOUS JUDGE (18:1-8). As Luke 18:8 b makes clear, this parable looks directly back to Jesus' prophecy which describes Himself as coming as the Son of Man in Luke 17:24. It is...
Luke 18:2. IN A CITY A JUDGE. The ordinary municipal judge, appointed in accordance with Deuteronomy 16:18. WHO FEARED NOT GOD, AND REGARDED NOT MAN. The expression is not an uncommon designation of...
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...
CONNECTION. This section belongs to the same period as the preceding one; the first parable has a close connection of thought with the predictions concerning the coming of the Son of man, while the se...
Regarded not (μη εντρεπομενος). Present middle participle of εντρεπω, old verb, to turn one on himself, to shame one, to reverence one. This was a "hard-boiled" judge who knew no one as his superior....
Luke 18:1 I. This parable does not teach us to pray. There is no need that it should. Like the belief in a God, the moral sense of right and wrong, the hope of immortality, the expectation of a judgm...
Luke 18:1. _And he spake a parable unto them to this end, that men ought always to pray, and not to faint;_ Especially, not to faint in prayer, not to become disheartened, or weary, even if their pra...
Luke 18:1. And he spake a parable unto them to this end, that men ought always to pray, and not to faint; saying, There was in a city a judge, which feared not God, neither regarded man: and there was...
Luke 18:1. _And he spake a parable unto them to this end, that men ought always to pray, and not to faint;_ An old writer says that many of Christ's parables need a key to unlock them. Here, the key...
Luke 18:1. _And he spake a parable unto them to this end, that men ought always to pray, and not to faint;_ «Not to faint» in their expectation of answers to their supplications, and therefore give u...
CONTENTS: Parable of the unjust judge. Parable of Pharisee and publican. Little children blessed. Rich young ruler. Death and resurrection foretold. Blind man healed near Jericho. CHARACTERS: God, Je...
Luke 18:1. _Men ought always to pray, and not to faint._ We have continual wants, and God is always ready to hear. And as we must always be thinking of good or of evil, it is best to set the Lord alwa...
THERE WAS A JUDGE. Judges in the East were notorious for being dishonest and taking bribes. AND THERE WAS A WIDOW. In the East, a widow was almost totally helpless, unless she had powerful friends. Th...
_Men ought always to pray, and not to faint_ THE STRANGE WEAPON-ALL-PRAYER While Christian was in the Palace Beautiful, they showed him all the remarkable objects in the armory, from the ox-goad of...
LUKE—NOTE ON LUKE 18:2 NOR RESPECTED MAN. He gave no one special treatment, whether great or small. ⇐...
LUKE—NOTE ON LUKE 18:1 This parable consists of a “lesser to greater” argument (see note on 11:11–13). ⇐...
CHAPTER 18 VER. 1. _He spake a parable unto them to the end that._ Christ had said, at the end of the last chapter, that the Apostles and the faithful should suffer persecutions, in which they should...
_Saying there was in a city a judge which feared not God._ This judge was wicked, unjust, cruel, and godless, one who feared neither the vengeance of God, nor the ill-report of men, who cared nothing...
_CRITICAL NOTES_ Luke 18:1 AND HE SPAKE A PARABLE.—This parable is closely connected with the preceding discourse about the second coming of Christ. The widow is the Church; the judge is God, who long...
EXPOSITION LUKE 18:1 _The Lord speaks the two parables on prayer_—_the importunate widow, and the Pharisee and publican._ LUKE 18:1 AND HE SPAKE A PARABLE UNTO THEM TO THIS END, THAT MEN OUGHT ALW...
Shall we turn tonight to Luke, chapter 18. Luke tells us that Jesus now spoke a parable to them to this end (Luke 18:1), In other words, the purpose of the parable was to encourage people to pray an...
2 Chronicles 19:3; Exodus 18:21; Exodus 18:22; Ezekiel 22:6; Isa
Regarded [ε ν τ ρ ε π ο μ ε ν ο ς]. See on Matthew 21:37....