Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Luke 18:1
He spake a parable to them — This and the following parable warn us against two fatal extremes, with regard to prayer: the former against faintness and weariness, the latter against self confidence.
He spake a parable to them — This and the following parable warn us against two fatal extremes, with regard to prayer: the former against faintness and weariness, the latter against self confidence.
CHAPTER XVIII. _The parable of the importunate widow_, 1-8. _Of the Pharisee and the publican_, 9-14. _Infants brought to Christ_, 15-17. _The ruler who wished to know how he might inherit eternal...
A PARABLE - See the notes at Matthew 13:3. TO THIS END - To show this. ALWAYS - At all times. That is, we must not neglect regular stated seasons of prayer; we must seize on occasions of remarkable p...
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...
A PARABLE. Both parables peculiar to Luke. Only here that the explanation is put first. TO THIS END, &c. Greek. _pros_ (App-104.) to dein. to the purport that it is necessary, &c. ALWAYS. Figure of...
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...
Luke 18:1-8. The Duty of Urgent Prayer. The Unjust Judge. 1. _that men ought always to pray_ Rather, THAT THEY OUGHT ALWAYS TO PRAY, since the true reading adds _abrov_s. It is only here and in Luke 1...
ΑΥ̓ΤΟΎΣ La[312] Ti[313], &c. following the best MSS. [312] La. Lachmann. [313] Ti. Tischendorf. 1. ΔΕΙ͂Ν ΠΆΝΤΟΤΕ ΠΡΟΣΕΎΧΕΣΘΑΙ ΑΥ̓ΤΟΎΣ. ‘That they ought always to pray,’ since the true reading adds αὑ...
Luke 18:1-8. THE DUTY OF URGENT PRAYER. THE UNJUST JUDGE...
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...
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...
ΠΡΌΣ (G4314) используется с _inf._ и указывает на цель, но иногда значение ослабляется: "со ссылкой на" (МТ, 144). ΔΕΪ́Ν _praes. act. inf. от_ ΔΕΙ (G1163) необходимо, указывает на логическую необход...
DISCOURSE: 1556 THE DUTY OF PERSEVERING IN PRAYER Luke 18:1. _Men ought always to pray, and not to faint_. THE efficacy of prayer is continually exhibited in the sacred writings, and every incitement...
AND HE SPAKE A PARABLE, &C.— _But,_ [δε,] _he taught them by a parable, that men ought to persevere in prayer, and not to be discouraged._ Heylin. The particle. δε, _but,_ plainly implies, that this p...
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...
And he spake a parable unto them to this end, that men ought always to pray, and not to faint; This delightful parable was evidently designed to follow up the subject of the last section, on the Co...
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...
Perhaps this is our Lord's own comment on the parable. ALWAYS _to_ PRAY] On the other hand, the rabbis taught that God must not be fatigued by too frequent prayer. Three times a day was enough. 'If a...
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...
XVIII. (1) THAT MEN OUGHT ALWAYS TO PRAY, AND NOT TO FAINT. — The latter of the two verbs is noticeable as being used in the New Testament by St. Luke and St. Paul only (2 Corinthians 4:1; 2 Corinthia...
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...
παραβολὴν : the story is a parable in so far as it teaches by an incident in natural life the power of perseverance with reference to the spiritual life. πρὸς, in reference to, indicating the subject...
_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....
And (1) he spake a parable unto them [to this end], that men ought always to pray, and not to (a) faint; (1) God will have us to continue in prayer, not to weary us, but to exercise us; therefore we...
_Always to pray, i.e. to pray daily, and frequently; (Witham) and also to walk always in the presence of God, by a spirit of prayer, love, and sorrow for sin._...
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...
CONTENTS This Chapter contains the Relation of the Importunate Widow, The Parable of the Pharisee and Publican. Children brought to Christ. Our Lord's Discourses; and the History of the Blind Man, ne...
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...
_‘PRAY, ALWAYS PRAY’_ ‘Men ought always to pray, and not to faint.’ Luke 18:1 I. THE REALITY OF PRAYER.—God’s mighty men have been men steeped in prayer. There are some in this church who can look...
We know that perseverance in prayer is a rare and difficult attainment; and it is a manifestation of our unbelief that, when our first prayers are not successful, we immediately throw away not only ho...
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...
AND HE SPOKE A PARABLE UNTO THEM,.... To his own disciples, as the Ethiopic version reads, in order to encourage them to prayer, with perseverance in it; since such sore times of trial and affliction...
And he spake a parable unto them _to this end_, that men ought always to pray, and not to faint; Ver. 1. _Always to pray and not to faint_] Gr. εκκακειν, not shrink back, as sluggards in work or cowa...
_And he spake_, &c. Ελεγε δε και παραβολην αυτοις. _He also spake a parable to them._ The particle δε, here used, plainly implies, that this parable has a relation to the preceding discourse, of which...
ALWAYS; habitually, perservingly. NOT TO FAITH; not to be discouraged, or cease to pray. No man fulfils his obligations to God or to himself who is not in the habit of daily prayer, and who is not si...
AND HE SPAKE A PARABLE UNTO THEM TO THIS END THAT MEN OUGHT ALWAYS TO PRAY AND NOT TO FAINT,...
THE IMPORTUNATE WIDOW. The unjust judge:...
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...
OLBGrk; LUKE CHAPTER 18 LUKE 18:1 The parable of the unjust judge and the importunate widow. LUKE 18:9 The parable of the Pharisee and publican. LUKE 18:15 Christ's tenderness to the little children t...
Tertullian Against Marcion Book IV When He recommends perseverance and earnestness in prayer, He sets before us the parable of the judge who was compelled to listen to the widow, owing to the earnest...
Luke 18:1 Then G1161 spoke G3004 (G5707) G2532 parable G3850 them G846 G4314 always G3842 ought...
‘And he spoke a parable to them to the end that they ought always to pray, and not to faint,' This parable is so important that an explanation of its meaning and significance is given at its commencem...
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...
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...
Luke 18:1. UNTO THEM, _i.e.,_ the disciples. TO THIS END, not in order that, but _to show,_ THAT THEY (the disciples) OUGHT ALWAYS TO PRAY. Comp. 1 Thessalonians 5:17: ‘Pray without ceasing.' The lat...
TO THE END THAT (προς το δειν).WITH A VIEW TO THE BEING NECESSARY , προς and the articular infinitive. The impersonal verb δε here is in the infinitive and has another infinitive loosely connecte...
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...
TO TEACH THEM THAT THEY SHOULD ALWAYS PRAY. Prayer is a right, not a duty. AND NEVER BECOME DISCOURAGED. God knows our needs, much better than we do. But he wants us to ask him and to praise him, just...
_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 18:1 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...
_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...
1 Thessalonians 5:17; Colossians 4:12; Colossians 4:2; Ephesians 6:18;...
To the end that men ought [π ρ ο ς τ ο δ ε ι ν]. Lit., with reference to its being necessary always to pray, etc. Faint [ε γ κ α κ ε ι ν]. To turn coward or lose heart....
FF— Should prayer be continuous or brief? PROBLEM: Jesus condemned the long and repetitious prayers of the Pharisees who thought they would “be heard for their many words” (Matthew 6:7). Yet in this p...
There is no duty in Christianity, the practice of which our Saviour pressed upon us more frequently than this duty of prayer. To encourage his disciples, (and us in them,) to fervency, importunity, an...