Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary
Luke 14:35
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See the Matthew 5:13 note; Mark 9:49 notes. SALT IS GOOD - It is useful. It is good to preserve life and health, and to keep from putrefaction. HIS SAVOUR - Its saltness. It becomes tasteless or ins...
CHAPTER 14 _ 1. The Man with the Dropsy Healed on the Sabbath. (Luke 14:1)_ 2. The Wisdom of Humility. (Luke 14:7) 3. Recompensed in Resurrection. (Luke 14:12) 4. The Parable of the Great Supper. ...
DISCIPLESHIP AND ITS COST. The passage is a reminder that, despite the universality of the Kingdom, the number of its true subjects is small. To the crowd that is following Him Jesus applies a stringe...
Jesus said, "Salt is a fine thing; but if salt has become insipid, by what means shall its taste be restored? It is fit neither for the land nor the dunghill. Men throw it out. He who has an ear to he...
UNDER THE SCRUTINY OF HOSTILE MEN (Luke 14:1-6)...
FOR. Greek. _eis._ App-104. land. App-129. THE DUNGHILL. manure. OUT. without HE THAT HATH, &c. See App-142....
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...
_men cast it out_ There is nothing stronger than salt which can restore to it its lost pungency. Hence, if it have been spoilt by rain or exposure, it is only fit to be used for paths. The peril of ba...
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 WHOLE-HEARTEDNESS, AND OF COUNTING THE COST; THE TOWER-BUILDER; THE WARRING KING; THE SAVOURLESS SALT...
ἜΞΩ ΒΆΛΛΟΥΣΙΝ ΑΥ̓ΤΌ. _Forth they fling it_! There is not a moment’s doubt that it has become perfectly useless. There is nothing stronger than salt which can restore to it its lost pungency. Hence, if...
VER 34. SALT IS GOOD: BUT IF THE SALT HAVE LOST HIS SAVOR, WHEREWITH SHALL IT BE SEASONED? 35. IT IS NEITHER FIT FOR THE LAND, NOR YET FOR THE DUNGHILL; BUT MEN CAST IT OUT. HE THAT HAS EARS TO HEAR,...
_THE COST OF DISCIPLESHIP -- LUKE 14:25-35:_ Large crowds often accompanied Jesus as He traveled about. Jesus taught the cost of discipleship saying, "If any man come to me, and hate not his father, a...
ΚΟΠΡΊΑ (G2874) навозная куча, куча мусора, ΕΎΘΕΤΟΣ (G2111) подходящий, пригодный, ΒΆΛΛΟΥΣΙΝ _praes. ind. act. от_ ΒΆΛΛΩ (G906) выбрасывать. Безличный _pl._ используется для выражения _pass._ Гномиче...
BUTLER'S COMMENTS SECTION 4 Grounded (Luke 14:25-35) 25 Now great multitudes accompanied him; and he turned and said to them, 26If any one comes to me and does not hate his own father and mother and...
Salt is good: but if the salt have lost his savour, wherewith shall it be seasoned? SALT IS GOOD: BUT IF THE SALT HAVE LOST HIS SAVOUR ... HE THAT HATH EARS TO HEAR, LET HIM HEAR. See the note at...
34-35 Compare Mat_5:13; Mar_9:50. 1 Compare Luk_7:34-35; Mat_9:10-13. 2 Our Lord's liking for sinners led the proud, self-righteous Pharisees and scribes to utter a most precious truth, though they,...
14:35 out. (b-13) Lit 'they cast it out.' see ch. 6.38....
THE LAND.. THE DUNGHILL] These have no special meaning. The sense is that the discipleship which makes no sacrifices is valueless for any purpose....
THAT WE MUST GIVE UP ALL TO FOLLOW CHRIST, AND COUNT THE COST BEFORE WE DO SO. The two parables of the Rash Builder (Luke 14:28) and the Rash King (Luke 14:31) are peculiar to Lk. The multitude who fo...
THE DROPSICAL MAN. THE GREAT SUPPER. DIVERS SAYINGS AND PARABLES 1-6. The sabbath question again. The man with the dropsy healed (peculiar to Lk)....
LUKE’S GOOD NEWS LUKE _HILDA BRIGHT_ CHAPTER 14 JESUS *HEALS A MAN ON THE *SABBATH 14:1-6 V1 One *Sabbath, Jesus went to dine at the home of one of the more important *Pharisees. They were watch...
IT IS NEITHER FIT FOR THE LAND, NOR YET FOR THE DUNGHILL. — The illustration, differing as it does from that in Matthew 5:13 and Mark 9:50, proves the independence of the saying as here recorded. A ne...
οὔτε εἰς γῆν οὔτε εἰς κοπρίαν, neither for land nor for dung (is it fit, εὔθετον as in Luke 9:62). The idea seems to be that savourless salt is neither _earth_ nor _manure_. ἔξω is emphatic = _out_ th...
_The saying concerning salt_ (Matthew 5:13; Mark 9:50). This _logion_ may have been repeatedly uttered by Jesus, but it does not seem to be so appropriate here as in its place in Mk. In this place the...
_Concio ad populum_. Jesus now appears on the way, and followed by “many multitudes” (ὄχλοι πολλοί, Luke 14:25) to whom He speaks. Thus sayings which in Mt. and Mk. form part of disciple-instruction ...
THE COST OF DISCIPLESHIP Luke 14:25-35 Here we have our Lord's use of the winnowing-fan. Amid the teeming crowds He knew that there were many light and superficial souls who had not realized the cos...
Nothing escaped the notice of Jesus. He saw the guests in the house, and their method of procedure in seeking the chief seats. As He watched, He enunciated two great truths of social application. Firs...
HEALING OF PETER'S MOTHER-IN-LAW Matthew 8:14-17; Mark 1:2-34; & Luke 14:3-35 Mark: “And immediately coming out of the synagogue? came into the house of Simon and Andrew and James and John. The mother...
THE SALT Luke 14:34-35. “ _Therefore salt is good_, _but if indeed the salt may lose its savor_, _with what shall it be salted_? _It is neither fit for the land nor the manure-heap. They cast it out....
4. _A Warning against hasty Professions: Luke 14:25-35_. The journey resumes its course; great crowds follow Jesus. There is consequently an attraction to His side. This appears in the plurals ὄχλοι,...
_The Application of those two Parables, with a new Figure confirming it._ “ _So likewise, whosoever he be of you that forsaketh not all that he hath, he cannot be my disciple._ 34. _Salt is good: but...
And whosoever doth not bear his cross, and come after me, cannot be my disciple. For which of you, intending to build a tower, sitteth not down first, and counteth the cost, whether he have sufficient...
Some moral details are unfolded in the next chapter (14). [37] The Lord, being invited to eat with a Pharisee, vindicates the rights of grace over that which was the seal of the old covenant, judging...
IT IS NEITHER FIT FOR THE LAND,.... For the manuring of it, when it has lost its savour and spirit; otherwise it makes land fruitful, if too much is not used, and especially fixed salts have this use;...
It is neither fit for the land, nor yet for the dunghill; _but_ men cast it out. He that hath ears to hear, let him hear. Ver. 35. _He that hath ears to hear_] This is usually added by our Saviour in...
_Salt is good_ If you are not my disciples indeed, your outward profession will be very insignificant: for, though salt in general is a good thing, and my servants, as I formerly intimated (see on Mat...
FOR THE LAND-THE DUNGHILL; for being sown to fertilize the soil, nor for being mingled with the dunghill. So a professed follower of Christ, who has lost His spirit, is of no value to the church here,...
IT IS NEITHER FIT FOR THE LAND, NOR YET FOR THE DUNGHILL; BUT MEN CAST IT OUT. HE THAT HATH EARS TO HEAR, LET HIM HEAR. The very fact of self-renunciation brings out the genuineness of the discipleshi...
A final warning:...
EATING IN THE PHARISEE'S HOUSE (vs.1-14) This chapter shows the heart of God in seeking man, yet also man in thorough contrast and opposition to God. One of the chief Pharisees invited the Lord Jesu...
25-35 Though the disciples of Christ are not all crucified, yet they all bear their cross, and must bear it in the way of duty. Jesus bids them count upon it, and then consider of it. Our Saviour exp...
Luke 14:35 is G2076 (G5748) neither G3777 fit G2111 for G1519 land G1093 nor G3777 for G1519 dunghill...
“He who has ears to hear, let him hear.” Jesus then finishes this passage, and the whole section, with the plea that men and women might hear His words. Let those who have ears to hear, hear. This co...
“Salt therefore is good, but if even the salt has lost its savour (literally ‘if it become foolish'), with what shall it be seasoned. It is fit neither for the land nor for the dunghill. Men cast it o...
THE CALL TO DISCIPLESHIP (14:25-35). Luke closes this section off as he opened it by showing Jesus as challenging His disciples and His would be disciples to consider what was involved in what they we...
Luke 14:35. NEITHER FOR THE LAND, NOR FOR THE DUNGHILL. Fuller than Matthew 5:13: ‘good for nothing.' It is not useful directly or indirectly. MEN EAST IT OUT (emphatically), because it is thus usel...
THE discourse was delivered, on the way to Jerusalem, probably very shortly after the meal in the Pharisee's house (Luke 14:1-24). The _place_ was therefore Perea, and the _time_ one of the three days...
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...
DUNGHILL (κοπριαν). Later word in the _Koine_ vernacular. Here only in the N.T., though in the LXX.MEN CAST IT OUT (εξω βαλλουσιν αυτο). Impersonal plural. This saying about salt is another of Chr...
Luke 14:25. _And there went great multitudes with him:_ During at least a part of his earthly ministry, Christ was very popular. The people crowded to his feet, and they were willing to make him a ki...
CONTENTS: Jesus heals on the Sabbath. Parable of the ambitious guest. Parable of the great supper. Parable of the tower, of the king going to war, and of the savorless salt. CHARACTERS: Jesus, Pharis...
Luke 14:3. _Is it lawful to heal on the sabbath day._ When customs are good, let us keep them; but when they are burthensome and inconsistent, the Saviour refused submission to the traditions of men....
SALT IS GOOD. See notes on Matthew 5:13; Mark 9:50. The Christian is the salt of the earth. The _taste_ is the spirit of love, good will, and self-sacrifice. One who does not have this _spirit_ is wor...
_Salt is good_ SALT THAT IS GENUINE, AND SALT THAT IS SALTLESS Among the substances that enter into the composition of this globe of earth, salt is a very important one, being of essential use in th...
JESUS TEACHES ABOUT THE SALTINESS OF FAITH MATTHEW 5:13; MARK 9:49-50; LUKE 14:34-35; MARK 9:49 For every one shall be salted with fire, and every
CHAPTER 14 VER. 1. _And it came to pass that He went into the house of one of the chief Pharisees_. "To do them service," says Titus, "Christ makes Himself their friend, and, as it were, one of their...
_He that hath ears to hear, let him hear._ Let him hear and meditate on what I say and teach. Our Lord calls attention to the seriousness and the difficulty of the matter about which He has been teach...
_CRITICAL NOTES_ Luke 14:25. THERE WENT WITH HIM.—_I.e._, journeyed with Him; many, if not most, of them being on their way to one of the feasts in Jerusalem. The multitudes were attracted by Christ’s...
EXPOSITION LUKE 14:1 _The Pharisee_'_s feast on a sabbath day. The healing of the sick with dropsy._ LUKE 14:1 AND IT CAME TO PASS, AS HE WENT INTO THE HOUSE OF ONE OF THE CHIEF PHARISEES TO EAT B...
Shall we turn in our Bibles now to the gospel according to Luke, chapter 14. The fourteenth chapter involves an invitation for Jesus to come to a supper on the Sabbath day and of the things that trans...
John 15:6; Luke 8:8; Luke 9:44; Matthew 11:15; Matthew 13:9;...