Likewise, I say unto you, there is joy in the presence of the angels of God over one sinner that repenteth.
Ver. 10. See Luke 15:7. The tears of sinners are the wine of angels, saith Bernard: who himself, for a certain time after his conversion, remained as it were deprived of his senses, by the excessive consolations he had from God.
TEN PIECES OF SILVER - In the original, ten “drachmas.” The drachma was about the value of fifteen cents, and consequently the whole sum was about a dollar and a half, or six shillings. The sum was sm...
CHAPTER 15 __ 1. The Murmuring Pharisees. (Luke 15:1) 2. The Parable of the Lost Sheep. (Luke 15:3) 3. The Parable of the Lost Coin. (Luke 15:8) 4. The Parable of the Prodigal Son and the Elder Br...
LUKE 25. THREE PARABLES SHOWING GOD'S LOVE FOR THE LOST, AND HIS JOY AT THEIR RESTORATION. The three parables in this chapter have no definite note of time or place. An introduction is supplied from L...
Or, what woman who has ten silver pieces, if she loses one piece, does not light a lamp and sweep the house and search carefully until she finds it? And when she has found it she calls together her fr...
THE SHEPHERD'S JOY (Luke 15:1-7)...
IS. becomes, or takes place, or results. Same as "arose" in Luke 15:14. IN THE PRESENCE OF. before. It does not say that the angels rejoice; but it is the divine joy in their presence. GOD. App-98....
_joy in the presence of the angels of God_ The same as the -joy in heaven" of Luke 15:7; the Te Deums of heaven over the victories of grace. _over one sinner that repenteth_ "I have no pleasure in th...
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...
THE LOST SHEEP...
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...
ΧΑΡᾺ ἘΝΏΠΙΟΝ ΤΩ͂Ν�. Comp. Luke 12:9. The same as the ‘joy in heaven’ of Luke 15:7; the Te Deums of heaven over the victories of grace. ἘΠῚ ἙΝῚ ἉΜΑΡΤΩΛΩ͂Ι ΜΕΤΑΝΟΟΥ͂ΝΤΙ. “I have no pleasure in the death...
VER 8. EITHER WHAT WOMAN HAVING TEN PIECES OF SILVER, IF SHE LOSE ONE PIECE, DOES NOT LIGHT A CANDLE, AND SWEEP THE HOUSE, AND SEEK DILIGENTLY TILL SHE FIND IT? 9. AND WHEN SHE HAS FOUND IT, SHE CALLS...
ΕΝΏΠΙΟΝ (G1799) в присутствии, с _gen._ ΜΕΤΑΝΟΟΎΝΤΙ _praes. act. part., см._ Luke 15:7....
DISCOURSE: 1544 ANGELS REJOICE OVER PENITENTS Luke 15:10. _I say unto you, There is joy in the presence of the angels of God over one sinner that repenteth_. HOWEVER paradoxical the observation may a...
DISCOURSE: 1543 THE LOST PIECE OF SILVER Luke 15:8. What woman having ten pieces of silver, if she lose one piece, doth not light a candle, and sweep the house, and seek diligently till she find it? A...
BUTLER'S COMMENTS SECTION 2 Lost Silver (Luke 15:8-10) 8 Or what woman, having ten silver coins, if she loses one coin, does not light a lamp and sweep the house and seek diligently until she finds...
Likewise, I say unto you, there is joy in the presence of the angels of God over one sinner that repenteth. LIKEWISE (THAT IS, ON THE SAME PRINCIPLE), THERE IS JOY IN THE PRESENCE OF THE ANGELS OF...
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,...
15:10 is (c-7) Lit. 'takes place.' _ Ginomai_ ....
PARABLES OF THE LOST SHEEP, OF THEM LOST COIN, OF THE PRODIGAL SON 1-7. Parable of the Lost Sheep. See on Matthew 18:12. The first of a series of three parables for the encouragement of penitents. It...
THE LOST COIN (peculiar to Lk). The last parable set forth the work of Christ in seeking and reclaiming the lost, this one sets forth that of the Church. The woman is the Church; the ten pieces of sil...
Jesus told this story of a woman who had lost one of her 10 silver coins. Each of these coins was worth about a day’s pay for a worker. The 10 coins may be all that the poor woman owned. The loss of o...
LUKE’S GOOD NEWS LUKE _HILDA BRIGHT_ CHAPTER 15 *PARABLES OF GOD’S LOVE 15:1-32 1 INTRODUCTION 15:1-2 Jesus told three *parables as an answer to the *Pharisees. They did not approve of him beca...
CHAPTER 21 LOST AND FOUND. IN this chapter we see how the waves of influence, moving outward from their Divine center, touch the outermost fringe of humanity, sending the pulsations of new excitemen...
repeats the moral of Luke 15:7, but without comparison which, with a smaller number, would only weaken the effect. ἐνώπιον τῶν ἀγγέλων τ. θ.: the angels may be referred to as the neighbours of God, wh...
_The second parable_, a pendant to the first, spoken possibly to the Capernaum gathering to bring the experience of joy found in things lost home to the poorest present. As spoken to Pharisees it is i...
SEEKING AND FINDING THE LOST Luke 15:1-10 They that have left the fold in which they were nurtured in early life, and have gone over bleak mountains and through tangled brakes, find themselves in thi...
Our Lord's attitude toward the sinning multitudes aroused the hostility of the Pharisees, and to them principally He uttered the great discourse of this chapter, consisting of a threefold parable. In...
_Before the angels. By this it is plain that the spirits in heaven have a concern for us below, and a joy at our repentance, and consequently a knowledge of it. (Challoner)_...
THE LOST MONEY Luke 15:8-10. “ _A certain woman having ten drachmae_, _if she may lose one drachma_, _does she not light a candle and sweep the house and seek diligently until she may find it_? _And h...
2 _d. Luke 15:3-10_. The two parables of the _lost sheep_ and of the _lost drachma_, as such pairs of parables always do, present the same idea, but in two different aspects. The idea common to both i...
_The Lost Drachma._ The anxiety of the woman to find her lost piece of money certainly does not proceed from a feeling of pity; it is _self-interest_ which leads her to act. She had painfully earned i...
Either what woman having ten pieces of silver, if she lose one piece, doth not light a candle, and sweep the house, and seek diligently till she find it? And when she hath found it, she calleth her fr...
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...
_THE DOCTRINE OF SIN_ ‘I say unto you, there is joy in the presence of the angels of God over one sinner that repenteth.’ Luke 15:10 We are to speak of sin. I. WHAT DO WE MEAN BY SIN?—There is fir...
Luke 15:10._There will be joy in the presence of the angels. _If _angels _mutually rejoice with each other in heaven, when they see that what had wandered is restored to the fold, we too, who have the...
Having thus unfolded the difference in character between the two dispensations, and the circumstances of the transition from the one to the other, the Lord turns (chapter 15) to higher principles the...
LIKEWISE I SAY UNTO YOU,.... As before, in Luke 15:7 THERE IS JOY IN THE PRESENCE OF THE ANGELS OF GOD; who are the friends and neighbours of Christ: Luke 15:6, OVER ONE SINNER THAT REPENTETH; which...
_Either what woman_ As if he had said, To illustrate the matter by another obvious similitude, that it may yet more powerfully strike your minds, _what woman, having ten pieces of silver_ Though each...
This parable is another illustration of the same truth....
As God, angels, and all holy beings rejoice at the repentance of sinners, all who repent, and all who are successful in leading others to repent, are increasing the happiness of heaven....
The parable of the lost piece of silver:...
LIKEWISE, I SAY UNTO YOU, THERE IS JOY IN THE PRESENCE OF THE ANGELS OF GOD OVER ONE SINNER THAT REPENTETH. The scope, tendency, and lesson of this parable is identical with that of the previous one....
SEEKING THE LOST SHEEP (vs.3-7) Though discipleship to Christ is a wonderful privilege, yet man would never choose a path of true discipleship if God did not seek him first. In this chapter we see t...
1-10 The parable of the lost sheep is very applicable to the great work of man's redemption. The lost sheep represents the sinner as departed from God, and exposed to certain ruin if not brought back...
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Clement of Alexandria Who is the Rich Man that Shall Be Saved? For it is said there is great and exceeding joy and festival in the heavens with the Father and the angels when one sinner turns and rep...
Luke 15:10 Likewise G3779 say G3004 (G5719) you G5213 is G1096 (G5736) joy G5479 presence G1799 angels...
THE PARABLES OF THE SEEKING SHEPHERD AND THE LOST COIN (15:1-10). In these twin parables Jesus illustrates Heaven's concern over all lost persons, whoever they may be, and of whatever class they be, a...
MEN MUST LIVE IN THE LIGHT OF THE COMING OF THE SON OF MAN IN HIS GLORY (15:1-19:28). Having established in Section 1 that Jesus was born in Bethlehem in the city of David where He was proclaimed ‘Sav...
THREE PARABLES DEALING WITH THE SEEKING AND SAVING OF THE LOST (15:1-32). It will have been noted how great a concentration there is in this section on preparing for the eternal future, and on the Ki...
THE WOMAN AND THE LOST COIN (15:8-10). As the analysis above shows this is in continuity with the previous parable and brings out Luke's tendency to combine parables together and to refer to both men...
“Even so, I say to you, there is joy in the presence of the angels of God over one sinner who repents.” But a greater joy than both is found in Heaven when a sinner repents. Here the rejoicing of the...
Luke 15:9. AND I SAY UNTO YOU. The last verse contains the commendation of one of ‘the sons of this world;' here we have a recommendation to ‘the sons of the light.' HAKE TO YOURSELVES FRIENDS OUT OF...
Luke 15:8-10. THE PARABLE OF THE LOST PIECE OR MONEY. Peculiar to Luke....
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. We have a single discourse, consisting mainly of parables, from chap. Luke 15:1 to chap. Luke 17:10. It was delivered during the journey from Perea to Jericho, and occasioned by the fact t...
Luke 15:10. THERE IS JOY. Not ‘will be,' the joy takes place whenever the sinner is found by the searching of the spirit. IN THE PRESENCE OF THE ANGELS OF GOD. That they share in it, is implied in t...
Luke 15:10. HE THAT IS FAITHFUL, etc. Lest it should seem strange that so much importance is attached to the proper use of perishing and unrighteous wealth, remember the great principle: ‘He that is f...
THERE IS JOY (γινετα χαρα). More exactly, joy arises. Futuristic present of γινομα (cf. εστα in verse Luke 15:7).IN THE PRESENCE OF THE ANGELS OF GOD (ενωπιον των αγγελων του θεου). That is to sa...
ANGEL (_ See Scofield) - (Hebrews 1:4). _ SINNER SIN (_ See Scofield) - (Romans 3:23). _...
Luke 15:8 The piece of silver whatever it was was great to the owner. And here lies the point in the analogy. A soul, an individual creature, an atom in God's universe, may be in itself a very insigni...
Luke 15:10 The Brightness of Penitence. The ordinary law of sympathy "to weep with those that weep" is naturally suspended in this instance. When our weeping is for our sins, the angels are glad over...
We have read this chapter together many times; possibly some of us have read it hundreds of times; yet whenever we read it, we always find something fresh in it. It is ever bright and sparkling, full...
Luke 15:1. _Then drew near unto him all the publicans and sinners for to hear him._ However sunken they might be, they knew their best Friend; they recognized their Benefactor, so they gathered aroun...
This is a chapter that needs no explanation; it carries its key within itself, and the experience of every child of God is the best exposition of it. The three parables recorded here set forth the wor...
CONTENTS: Parables of the lost sheep, lost coin and lost son. CHARACTERS: Jesus, Pharisees, scribes. CONCLUSION: God has a particular care over backsliding sinners (Isr. in this case) and follows th...
Luke 15:1. _Then drew near all the publicans and sinners to hear him._ The pharisees were so intoxicated with ideas of their own righteousness, as to regard all such characters as excluded from the co...
OR SUPPOSE A WOMAN WHO HAS TEN SILVER COINS. It is the custom in the East to have a string of coins for a bracelet, necklace, etc. The _happiness_ of finding the lost coin shows the _happiness_ of God...
_Joy in the presence of the angels of God_ JOY AMONG THE ANGELS OVER REPENTING SINNERS I. THE CLASS REPRESENTED AS BEING SPECIALLY EXCITED BY THE EMOTION OF JOY OVER A SINNER’S REPENTANCE. “The ange...
_Either what woman having ten pieces of silver_ MAN RESEMBLED TO SILVER COIN 1. And that in regard of matter. No metal except gold (which indeed is most solid and perfectly concocted with sufficien...
CHAPTER 15 Ver. 1. _Then drew near under Him all the publicans and sinners_. _πάντες_, all, that is, many came together to hear Christ, attracted by His sanctity and by the loving-kindness with which...
_CRITICAL NOTES_ Luke 15:1. PUBLICANS AND SINNERS.—_I.e._, tax-gatherers, odious to the whole nation on account of their occupation and their unscrupulousness in carrying it on, and persons from whom...
EXPOSITION LUKE 15:1 The _Lord speaks his three parable-stories of the _"lost," _in which he explains his reason for loving and receiving the sinful._ LUKE 15:1,...
Then drew near to him all the publicans and sinners to hear him. And the Pharisees and scribes murmured, saying, This man receives sinners, and eats with them (Luke 15:1-2). Notice the four groups tha...
2 Chronicles 33:13; 2 Corinthians 7:10; Acts 10:3; Acts 11:18;...
CHRIST SEEKING TO SAVE Luke 15:1 INTRODUCTORY WORDS The story of the prodigal son is one part of a threefold parable. 1. WE HAVE THE SHEPHERD SUFFERING AS HE SEEKS HIS SHEEP. The parable describes...