And that servant, which knew his lord's will, and prepared not himself, neither did according to his will, shall be beaten with many stripes.
Ver. 47. Which knew his Lord's will] None are so filled with God's wrath as knowing men. Sapientes sapienter descendunt in infernum, The wise wisely go down into hell, saith Bernard. The devil is too hard for them.
Verse 47. _SHALL BE BEATEN WITH MANY STRIPES._] Criminals among the Jews could not be beaten with more than forty stripes; and as this was the sum of the severity to which a whipping could extend, it...
WHICH KNEW HIS LORD’S WILL - Who knew what his master wished him to do. He that knows what God commands and requires. MANY STRIPES - Shall be severely and justly punished. They who have many privilege...
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. ...
THE FAITHFUL STEWARD (Matthew 24:45 *). Luke 12:39 is peculiar to Lk. The answer to Peter's question is that the injunctions to watchfulness are particularly applicable to the Twelve. This is emphasiz...
"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)...
AND. But. WILL. Greek. _thelema._ See App-102. ACCORDING to. Greek. _pros._ App-104....
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...
_shall be beaten with many stripes_ Exceptional privileges if rejected involve exceptional guilt and punishment, Luke 10:13; James 4:17; 2 Peter 2:21....
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)...
ΜῊ ἙΤΟΙΜΆΣΑΣ. The μὴ is used because it gives the supposed _reason_ for the slave’s punishment. Exceptional privileges if rejected involve exceptional guilt and punishment, Luke 10:13; James 4:17; 2 P...
VER 47. AND THAT SERVANT, WHICH KNEW HIS LORD'S WILL, AND PREPARED NOT HIMSELF, NEITHER DID ACCORDING TO HIS WILL, SHALL BE BEATEN WITH MANY STRIPES. 48. BUT HE THAT KNEW NOT, AND DID COMMIT THINGS WO...
ΓΝΟΎΣ _aor. act. part. (adj.)_, _см._ Luke 12:39. ΈΤΟΙΜΆΣΑΣ _aor. act. part. (adj.) от_ ΈΤΟΙΜΆΖΩ (G2090) быть готовым, подготовленным, ΠΟΙΉΣΑΣ _aor. act. part., см._ Luke 12:33. ΔΑΡΉΣΕΤΑΙ _fut. ind....
DISCOURSE: 1530 PUNISHMENT PROPORTIONED TO MEN’S DESERT Luke 12:47. That servant, which knew his Lord’s will, and prepared not himself, neither did according to his will, shall be beaten with many str...
AND THAT SERVANT WHICH KNEW HIS LORD'S WILL, &C.— Lest the consideration of the strictness of the account, and the greatness of the punishment described in the parable, might terrify men of honest dis...
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 that servant, which knew his lord's will, and prepared not himself, neither did according to his will, shall be beaten with many stripes. AND THAT SERVANT, WHICH KNEW HIS LORD'S WILL, AND PREP...
39 As most of the houses in Palestine were built of sun-dried clay, or adobe, a thief could best effect an entrance by digging his way through the walls. They literally burrowed their way into a house...
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...
48. (Peculiar to Lk.) Christ here seems to assert (cp. Luke 10:12; Luke 10:14) that there will be degrees of future punishment....
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...
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...
AND THAT SERVANT, WHICH KNEW HIS LORD’S WILL. — The verses that follow (Luke 12:47) are peculiar to St. Luke, and every word is full of profoundest interest. First there comes a warning to the discipl...
_Degrees of guilt and punishment_, in Lk. only, and serving as an apology for the severity of the punishment as described in Luke 12:46. That punishment presupposes anger. The statement now made is to...
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...
VERS. 47 AND 48. _The Principle._ “ _And that servant which knew his lord's will, and prepared nothing, neither did according to his will, shall be beaten with many stripes._ 48. _But he that knew not...
_The Parable of the Two Stewards._ The magnificence of the promise, Luke 12:37, has struck Peter; he asks himself if such a recompense is intended for all the subjects of the Messiah, or ought not rat...
4 _th. To the Apostles: Luke 12:41-53_. Up till now, Jesus had been speaking to all believers; from this point, on occasion of a question put by Peter, He addresses the apostles in particular, and rem...
(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...
Luke 12:47._But that servant. _There is great weight in this circumstance, which is mentioned by Luke alone, that, in proportion as any man knowingly and willingly takes pleasure in despising the Lord...
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 THAT SERVANT WHICH KNEW HIS LORD'S WILL,.... Not his secret, but his revealed will; the will of God, which lies in the declarations of his grace and mercy in the Gospel, and in the commands and or...
_And that servant which knew his lord's will_, &c. Lest the consideration of the strictness of the account, and the greatness of the punishment, described in the parable, might terrify men of honest d...
Christ's summary:...
AND THAT SERVANT WHICH KNEW HIS LORD'S WILL, AND PREPARED NOT HIMSELF, NEITHER DID ACCORDING TO HIS WILL, SHALL BE BEATEN WITH MANY STRIPES....
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,...
41-53 All are to take to themselves what Christ says in his word, and to inquire concerning it. No one is left so ignorant as not to know many things to be wrong which he does, and many things to be...
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Irenaeus Against Heresies Book IV And again, "The servant who knows his Lord's will, and does it not, shall be beaten with many stripes."[602] Shepherd of Hermas Similitude Ninth If, accordingly, wh...
Luke 12:47 And G1161 that G1565 servant G1401 who G3588 knew G1097 (G5631) his G1438 masters G2962 will...
“And that servant, who knew his lord's will, and did not make ready, nor did according to his will, will be beaten with many stripes,” The question here is whether this is the same slave or another on...
THE PARABLE OF THE SERVANTS GOOD AND BAD (12:42-48). In reply to Peter's question Jesus tells a parable about an individual steward (although it expands to cover all level of servants at the end). It...
Luke 12:47. AND THAT SERVANT WHO KNEW, etc. The verse states a general principle, which serves to explain the severity of the punishment spoken of in Luke 12:46. Peter's distinction (Luke 12:41) betwe...
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...
WHICH KNEW (ο γνους). Articular participle (second aorist active, punctiliar and timeless). The one who knows. So as to μη ετοιμασας η ποιησας (does not make ready or do).SHALL BE BEATEN WITH MANY...
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...
THE SERVANT WHO KNOWS. This servant deliberately sins. BUT THE SERVANT WHO DOES NOT KNOW. This servant sins through ignorance. This parable points especially to those who listen to Jesus and were plea...
_Beaten with many stripes_ MANY STRIPES Our Lord in the context urges His disciples to diligence, watchfulness, and fidelity. This is important, for we are stewards, servants, and are responsible t...
LUKE—NOTE ON LUKE 12:41 ARE YOU TELLING THIS PARABLE FOR US OR FOR ALL? Jesus does not actually answer Peter’s question, which would seem to indicate that the parable was meant for “everyone” to whom...
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...
VER. 42. _And the Lord said, Who then is that faithful and wise steward whom his lord shall set over his household to give them their portion of food in due season?_ Christ replied to Peter that He sp...
_And that servant which knew his lord's will and made not ready_. Did not prepare for the coming of his lord by distributing to his fellow-servants their portions of food in season, but by ill-treatin...
_CRITICAL NOTES_ Luke 12:41. THEN PETER SAID.—The high reward promised, rather than the duty enjoined, was in Peter’s thoughts, and involved a certain measure of danger against which Christ warns him....
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 Corinthians 2:15; 2 Corinthians 2:16; Acts 17:30; Deuteronomy 25:2;...
And that servant who knew his Lord's will shall be beaten with many stripes — And his having much knowledge will increase, not lessen, his punishment....