Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Luke 12:15
He said to them — Perhaps to the two brothers, and through them to the people. A man's life — That is, the comfort or happiness of it.
He said to them — Perhaps to the two brothers, and through them to the people. A man's life — That is, the comfort or happiness of it.
Verse Luke 12:15. _BEWARE OF COVETOUSNESS_] Or rather, _Beware of all_ _inordinate desires_. I add πασης, _all_, on the authority of ABDKLM-Q, _twenty-three_ others, both the _Syriac_, all the _Persic...
BEWARE OF COVETOUSNESS - One of these brothers, no doubt, was guilty of this sin; and our Saviour, as was his custom, took occasion to warn his disciples of its danger. COVETOUSNESS - An unlawful desi...
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. ...
PARABLE OF THE RICH FOOL. Lk. only. LUKE 12:13_. _ The crowd of Luke 12:1 reappears here. Luke 12:14. Jesus declines to usurp the functions of the civil judge....
One of the crowd said to Jesus, "Teacher, tell my brother to divide the inheritance with me." He said to him, "Man, who appointed me a judge or an arbitrator over you?" He said to them, "Watch and gua...
THE CREED OF COURAGE AND OF TRUST (Luke 12:1-12)...
TAKE HEED. See. Greek. _horao._ App-133. BEWARE. keep yourselves from, COVETOUSNESS. All the texts read "all covetousness". MAN'S. to any one. LIFE. Greek _zoe._ See App-170. Not so with _bios_ (A...
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...
_beware of covetousness_ The better reading is "of ALL covetousness," i.e. not only beware of avarice, but also of selfish possession. Both the O. and N. T. abound with repetitions of this warning. Ba...
ἈΠῸ ΠΆΣΗΣ ΠΛΕΟΝΕΞΊΑΣ. אABD edd. 15. ΦΥΛΆΣΣΕΣΘΕ�. ‘_Guard yourselves from all covetousness_.’ The word is more positive than “beware of” (βλέπετε, προσέχετε). The right reading is ‘of _all_ covetousnes...
EGOTISM REBUKED. THE RICH FOOL...
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 13. AND ONE OF THE COMPANY SAID TO HIM, MASTER, SPEAK TO MY BROTHER, THAT HE DIVIDE THE INHERITANCE WITH ME. 14. AND HE SAID TO HIM, MAN, WHO MADE ME A JUDGE OR A DIVIDER OVER YOU? 15. AND HE SAID...
ΌΡΆΤΕ _praes. imper. act. от_ ΌΡΆΩ (G3708) видеть, смотреть. _Praes. imper._ призывает к постоянному отношению, ΦΥΛΆΣΣΕΣΘΕ _praes. imper. med._ (dir. _med._) от ΦΥΛΆΣΣΩ (G5442) стеречь; _med._ беречь...
DISCOURSE: 1526 CAUTION AGAINST COVETOUSNESS Luke 12:15. _And he said unto them, Take heed, and beware of covetousness_. THE instructions which our Lord conveyed to his Disciples almost always arose...
TAKE HEED, AND BEWARE OF COVETOUSNESS:— _See to it, and be upon your guard against covetousness._ The original is very lively, and the full force of it not easy to be expressed. Some old versions, and...
APPLEBURY'S COMMENTS _The Man God Called a Fool Scripture_ Luke 12:13-21 And one out of the multitude said unto him, Teacher, bid my brother divide the inheritance with me. 14 But he said unto him, M...
BUTLER'S COMMENTS SECTION 2 Astuteness in Alertness (Luke 12:13-34) 13 One of the multitude said to him, Teacher, bid my brother divide the inheritance with me. 14But he said to him, Man, who made m...
And he said unto them, Take heed, and beware of covetousness: for a man's life consisteth not in the abundance of the things which he possesseth. AND HE SAID UNTO THEM - the immense multitude befo...
14 See Exo_2:14. 15 Compare 1Ti_6:6-10. 15 A telling truth which would do more to ameliorate the ills of humanity than all government, were it heeded, is embodied in the phrase, "the superfluity of...
FOR A MAN'S LIFE] The Gk. is difficult and the translation doubtful, but the sense seems to be that neither a man's physical nor his spiritual life is dependent upon great possessions. A healthy and h...
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...
PARABLE OF THE RICH FOOL (peculiar to Lk). The parable teaches that since death and judgment are inevitable, men ought to devote their attention to laying up treasure in heaven, not on earth....
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...
TAKE HEED, AND BEWARE OF COVETOUSNESS. — The better MSS. give, “of all (_i.e.,_ every form of) -covetousness.” Our Lord’s words show that He had read the secret of the man’s heart. Greed was there, wi...
CHAPTER 23 THE ESCHATOLOGY OF THE GOSPEL. COIFI, in his parable to the thanes and nobles of the North Humber country, likened the present life of man to the flight of a sparrow through one of their l...
_An interlude leading to a change of theme_, in Lk. only....
THE DOOM OF THE MONEY LOVER Luke 12:13-21 Our Lord did not come into our world as an earthly judge, adjusting differences between man and man. He lays down great principles, obedience to which will b...
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...
And he said unto them, Take heed, and beware of (c) covetousness: for a man's life (d) consisteth not in the abundance of the things which he possesseth. (c) By covetousness is meant that greedy desi...
CHAPTER 25 LEAVEN OF THE PHARISEES Luke 12:1. _“Meanwhile myriads of the multitude, having come together, so that they were treading on one another, He began to speak first to His disciples, Take hee...
2 _d. To the People: Luke 12:15-21_. _The Rich Fool._ Πρὸς αὐτούς (“He said _unto them_ ”), Luke 12:15, stands in opposition to _His disciples_, Luke 12:22. This slight detail confirms the exactness o...
(13) And one of the company said unto him, Master, speak to my brother, that he divide the inheritance with me. (14) And he said unto him, Man, who made me a judge, or a divider, over you? (15) And he...
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...
_A MAN’S LIFE_ ‘A man’s life consisteth not in the abundance of the things which he possesseth.’ Luke 12:15 A man’s life! What a marvellous gift! Wherefore should a living man complain, though he b...
15._Take heed and beware of covetousness. _Christ first guards his followers against _covetousness, _and next, in order to cure their minds entirely of this disease, he declares, that _our life consis...
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 HE SAID UNTO THEM,.... Either to the two brethren, or to his disciples, as the Syriac and Persic versions read, or to the whole company: TAKE HEED, AND BEWARE OF COVETOUSNESS; of all covetousness...
And he said unto them, Take heed, and beware of covetousness: for a man's life consisteth not in the abundance of the things which he possesseth. Ver. 15. _Take heed, and beware of covetousness_] Thi...
_One said, Master, speak to my brother_, &c. While Jesus was discoursing, as above related, to his disciple, one of the crowd, that was then collected about Jesus, requested that he would speak to his...
COVETOUSNESS; over-anxiety and selfish greediness for earthly things. CONSISTETH NOT; neither the length, usefulness, and happiness of a man's life in this world, nor his eternal life hereafter, depe...
Warning against avarice:...
AND HE SAID UNTO THEM, TAKE HEED, AND BEWARE OF COVETOUSNESS; FOR A MAN'S LIFE CONSISTETH NOT IN THE ABUNDANCE OF THE THINGS WHICH HE POSSESSETH. While Jesus was addressing the multitude, there came a...
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,...
13-21 Christ's kingdom is spiritual, and not of this world. Christianity does not meddle with politics; it obliges all to do justly, but wordly dominion is not founded in grace. It does not encourage...
OLBGrk; The pleonexia, here translated _covetousness_ immoderate desire of having of this world's goods, which discovers itself either by unrighteous acts in procuring, or uncharitable omissions for t...
Luke 12:15 And G1161 said G2036 (G5627) to G4314 them G846 heed G3708 (G5720) and G2532 beware...
SECTION 5 (12:1-14:35). We commence here a new section of Luke. As we shall see this section centres around a mighty act of Jesus in delivering a woman bound by Satan, and thus doubled up and unable t...
‘And he said to them, “Take careful note, and keep yourselves from all covetousness, for a man's life does not consist in the abundance of the things which he possesses.” Then Jesus turned to His disc...
THE DANGER OF RICHES (12:13-21). We now come to the first of a series of parables in this section. It is the first demonstration of how distorted Israel (and the world) is and how it needs to be made...
CHAPTER 12 is made up of a series of discourses following each other in immediate succession, but with less of unity and logical connection than are found in most of our Lord's recorded sermons. Some...
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...
Luke 12:13-21. WARNING AGAINST COVETOUS-NESS. Peculiar to Luke....
Luke 12:15. UNTO THEM. Evidently the crowd. KEEP YOURSELVES FROM ALL COVETOUSNESS. Our Lord saw that this was the man's motive, and grounds His lesson upon it. From the one form manifested by the ma...
FROM ALL COVETOUSNESS (απο πασης πλεονεξιας). Ablative case. From every kind of greedy desire for more (πλεον, more, εξια, from εχω, to have) an old word which we have robbed of its sinful aspects...
Luke 12:13 The folly of the rich fool appears: I. In the fact that he completely ignored his responsibility to God in the matter of his possessions. He speaks of " _my_fruits," and " _my_goods," and...
Luke 12:15 Business its Dangers and Safeguards. I. There can be no doubt at all that the average business man's temptation must chiefly lie in this direction: to exaggerate the relative value of the...
Luke 12:13. _And one of the company said unto him, Master, speak to my brother, that he divide the inheritance with me. And he said unto him, Man, who made me a judge or a divider over you?_ Our Lord...
The teaching of our Lord, in this chapter, has very much to do with Christianity in connection with this present life, and its cares and troubles. God has nowhere promised us exemption from affliction...
In this chapter, our Saviour dispels the fears of his disciples concerning temporal things, and especially their fear of persecution and their fear of want. Luke 12:1. In the mean time, when there we...
Luke 12:13. _And one of the company said unto him, Master, speak to my brother, that he divide the inheritance with me, And he said unto him, Man, who made me a judge or a divider over you?_ Our Lord...
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...
GUARD YOURSELVES FROM ALL KINDS OF GREED. _Money_ is not the problem, but the _love_ of money (1 Timothy 6:10). A MAN'S TRUE LIFE. Comfort, happiness, and especially _eternal things_ do not depend upo...
_Take heed and beware of covetousness_ BUSINESS LIFE I shall try to keep in view the chief risk to the moral and religious nature which are incident to a business life, and my aim will be to show yo...
LUKE—NOTE ON LUKE 12:13 TELL MY BROTHER TO DIVIDE. Since Jesus’ teaching on the desire for material things immediately follows this request, this man is probably speaking from personal greed. WHO MADE...
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...
_CRITICAL NOTES_ Luke 12:13. ONE OF THE COMPANY.—Rather, “one out of the multitude” (R.V.). Perhaps the mention of magistrates and powers suggested to him Christ’s acting as a judge and giving a decis...
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...
1 Corinthians 5:10; 1 Corinthians 5:11; 1 Corinthians 6:10; 1 Timothy 6:6;...
Beware of [φ υ λ α σ σ ε σ θ ε α π ο]. Lit., guard yourselves from....
Our Saviour, upon the occasion given him in the foregoing verses, admonishes all his disciples and followers to take heed and beware of the sin of covetousness, assuring them that neither the comfort...