Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Luke 6:24
Miserable are ye rich — If ye have received or sought your consolation or happiness therein.
Miserable are ye rich — If ye have received or sought your consolation or happiness therein.
Verse Luke 6:24. _BUT WO UNTO YOU THAT ARE RICH!_] The Pharisees, who were laden with the spoils of the people which they received in gifts, c. These three verses are not found in the sermon, as reco...
See this passage fully illustrated in the sermon on the mount, in Matt. 5–7. Luke 6:21 THAT HUNGER NOW - Matthew has it, “that hunger and thirst after righteousness.” Matthew has expressed more full...
CHAPTER 6 _ 1. The Son of Man the Lord of the Sabbath. (Luke 6:1)_ 2. The Man with the Withered Hand Healed. (Luke 6:6) 3. The Twelve Apostles Chosen. (Luke 6:12) 4. Blessing and Woe. ...
THE SERMON ON THE LEVEL PLACE. This is much briefer than Matthew 5-7. The sections in Mt. that illustrate the fulfilment of the Law are omitted; more stress is laid on love and mercy. Other parallels...
THE INCREASING OPPOSITION (Luke 6:1-5)...
Jesus lifted up his eyes upon his disciples and said, "Happy are you poor, because yours is the Kingdom of God. Happy are you who are hungry now because you will be filled. Happy are you who weep now...
BUT. Greek. _plen._ Emphatic. woe. This is not. different and discrepant version of the Sermon on the Mount, but. varied repetition of parts of it. HAVE RECEIVED. are receiving. Greek. _apecho._ The...
_But woe_ While sin lasts, there must still be woes over against Beatitudes, as Ebal stands for ever opposite to Gerizim. In St Matthew also we find (Matthew 23) eight woes as well as eight Beatitudes...
20-26. BEATITUDES AND WOES. This section of St Luke, from Luke 6:20 to Luke 9:6, resembles in style the great Journey Section, Luke 9:51....
BEATITUDES AND WOES This section of St Luke, from Luke 6:20 to Luke 9:6, resembles in style the great Journey Section, Luke 9:51 to Luke 18:34....
ΠΛῊΝ ΟΥ̓ΑΊ. While sin lasts, there must still be Woes over against Beatitudes, as Ebal stands for ever opposite to Gerizim. In St Matthew also we find (Matthew 23) eight Woes as well as eight Beatitud...
VER 24. BUT WOE TO YOU THAT ARE RICH! FOR YOU HAVE RECEIVED YOUR CONSOLATION. 25. WOE TO YOU THAT ARE FULL! FOR YOU SHALL HUNGER. WOE TO YOU THAT LAUGH NOW! FOR YOU SHALL MOURN AND WEEP. 26. WOE TO YO...
ΑΠΈΧΕΤΕ _praes. ind. act. от_ ΑΠΈΧΩ (G588) принимать. Это слово использовалось в торговле при заверении расписки в получении полной уплаты (MM; LAE, 110f). Этим людям не на что уповать, кроме тех бога...
DISCOURSE: 1495 TRUE HAPPINESS STATED Luke 6:20. And he lifted up his eyes on his disciples, and said, Blessed be ye poor: for yours is the kingdom of God. Blessed are ye that hunger now: for ye shall...
WOE UNTO YOU THAT ARE RICH!— We may observe another circumstance in this discourse, in which also it differs from that in St. Matthew, namely, that our Lord not only pronounced blessings, but likewise...
BUTLER'S COMMENTS SECTION 3 Moral (Luke 6:20-26) 20 And he lifted up his eyes on his disciples, and said: Blessed are you poor, for yours is the kingdom of God. 21 Blessed are you that hunger now, f...
But woe unto you that are rich! for ye have received your consolation. BUT WOE UNTO YOU THAT ARE RICH! FOR YE HAVE RECEIVED YOUR CONSOLATION....
6 Jewish tradition carried sabbath observance to ridiculous lengths. They gravely discussed whether it is lawful to put out one's hand to give to a beggar, and how far! They disagreed as to whether it...
FOUR WOES (peculiar to Lk). The 'woes' refer chiefly to future punishment in the world to come, but not exclusively, for in the siege of Jerusalem they received a literal fulfilment....
YOU THAT ARE RICH] i.e. those who, possessing wealth, trust in it (Mark 10:24), or spend it in selfish luxury like Dives (Luke 16:19), and despise the poor (James 2:6), and oppress them ...
GREAT SERMON TO THE DISCIPLES AND IN PART TO THE MULTITUDES. It forms here the ordination address of the Twelve. In what sense it is identical with the Sermon on the Mount is explained on Matthew 5:1....
CHOICE OF THE TWELVE. SERMON IN THE PLAIN 1-5. Plucking the ears of corn (Matthew 12:1; Mark 2:23). See on Mt and Mk....
LUKE’S GOOD NEWS LUKE _HILDA BRIGHT_ CHAPTER 6 HOW TO USE THE *SABBATH 6:1-11 1. THE *DISCIPLES IN THE FIELDS OF CORN 6:1-5 V1 Jesus was walking through some fields of wheat on a *Sabbath. His...
BUT WOE UNTO YOU THAT ARE RICH! — Better, _woe for you,_ the tone being, as sometimes (though, as Matthew 23 shows, not uniformly) with this expression, one of pity rather than denunciation. (Comp. Ma...
CHAPTER 15 THE KINGDOM OF GOD. IN considering the words of Jesus, if we may not be able to measure their depth or to scale their height, we can with absolute certainty discover their drift, and see i...
_First part of the discourse: Beatitudes and Woes_ (Matthew 5:1-12)....
_The Sermon_ (Matthew 5-7). That it is the same sermon as Mt. reports in Chapter s 5 7 may be regarded as beyond discussion. How, while the same, they came to be so different, is a question not quite...
πλὴν, but, used here adversatively, a favourite word with Lk., suggesting therefore the hypothesis that he is responsible for the “woes” following, peculiar to his version of the sermon. ἀπέχετε, ye h...
NEW LEADERS AND NEW PRINCIPLES Luke 6:12-26 There are three circles here: _First,_ Christ and His Apostles-the men who were to be sent into all the world to preach the gospel and to lay the foundati...
In a synagogue our Lord healed the man with a withered hand, and the religious watchers were filled with anger because, according to their view, our Lord had desecrated the Sabbath. Surely, there is n...
But woe unto you that are rich! for ye have (f) received your consolation. (f) That is, you reap now of your riches all the convenience and blessing you are ever likely to have, and therefore you hav...
Jesus Christ having declared how meritorious poverty of spirit was to eternal life, proceeds to denounce heavy chastisements upon the rich and proud. (St. Cyril in St. Thomas Aquinas) --- Although in...
CHAPTER 16 SERMON ON THE MOUNT Matthew 5-7, and Luke 6:20-49. A few days ago it was my privilege to spend two beautiful bright days at the sea of Galilee, sailing over it, and visiting the places of...
THIRD CYCLE: FROM THE ELECTION OF THE TWELVE TO THEIR FIRST MISSION, LUKE 6:12 TO LUKE 8:56. In the following section we shall see the Galilean ministry reach its zenith; it begins with the institutio...
First part: Luke 6:20-26. _The Call._ This solemn invitation describes: (1 _st._) Those who are qualified to become members of the order of things inaugurated by Jesus (Luke 6:20-23); (2 _d._) Their a...
2 _d. Luke 6:20-49_. _The Sermon._ The aim, prevailing thought, and plan of this discourse have been understood in many different ways. The solution of these questions is rendered more difficult by th...
“ _But woe unto you that are rich! for ye have received your consolation._ 25. _Woe unto you that are full! for ye shall hunger. Woe unto you that laugh now! for ye shall mourn and weep._ 26. _Woe unt...
(20) And he lifted up his eyes on his disciples, and said, Blessed be ye poor; for your's is the kingdom of God. (21) Blessed are ye that hunger now: for ye shall be filled. Blessed are ye that weep n...
The preface of Luke's gospel is as instructive as the introduction of either of the two preceding gospels. It is obvious to any serious reader that we enter a totally different province, though all be...
Luke 6:24._Woe to you that are rich. _As Luke has related not more than four kinds of _blessings, _so he now contrasts with them four _curses, _so that the clauses mutually correspond. This contrast n...
The circumstances related in Luke 6:1-10 have reference to the same truth, and in an important aspect. The sabbath was the sign of the covenant between Israel and God rest after finished works. The Ph...
BUT WOE UNTO YOU THAT ARE RICH,.... Not in worldly riches and substance, for some of these have been, and are happy persons in a spiritual sense; and at most, it can only mean such, who trust in their...
But woe unto you that are rich! for ye have received your consolation. Ver. 24. _But woe unto you that are rich_] _sc._ In this world only, and not to Godward. _See Trapp on "_ Jam 5:1 _"_ _See Trapp...
_But wo_, &c. Here we see that this discourse differs very materially from the sermon on the mount; there our Lord pronounced _blessings_ only, here he denounces _curses;_ or, to speak more properly,...
YOU THAT ARE RICH; rich in this world's goods, and trust in them for happiness....
BLESSED BE YE POOR; for the meaning of these beatitudes and their opposite woes, ver Luke 6:20-26, see notes on the beatitudes in Matthew 5:3-12. See sermon on mount. Matthew 5:39-48;...
BUT WOE UNTO YOU THAT ARE RICH! FOR YE HAVE RECEIVED YOUR CONSOLATION....
A threefold woe:...
LORD OF THE SABBATH (vs.1-11) "The second Sabbath after the first" is literally translated the "second-first Sabbath" (JND trans.), an unusual expression. The first Sabbath was that following the Pas...
20-26 Here begins a discourse of Christ, most of which is also found in Luke 6:5; Luke 6:7. But some think that this was preached at another time and place. All believers that take the precepts of th...
Not because you are rich, but because you are not rich towards God, because you look upon your riches as your portion, as your consolation; or, you that are rich in the opinion of your own righteousne...
Irenaeus Against Heresies Book III And in His office of teacher this is what He has said to the rich: "Woe unto you that are rich, for ye have received your consolation; "[243] Tertullian Against Ma...
Luke 6:24 But G4133 woe G3759 you G5213 rich G4145 For G3754 received G568 (G5719) your G5216 consolation...
“But woe to you who are rich! for you have received your consolation. Woe to you, you who are full now! for you shall hunger. Woe to you, you who laugh now! for you shall mourn and weep. Woe to you...
JESUS PROCLAIMS THE NEW LAW OF THE KINGLY RULE OF GOD (6:20-49). Like Matthew 5-7 this ‘sermon' or ‘address' is carefully put together and patterned, but, in spite of similarities, we would be mistake...
BLESSINGS AND WOES ON ISRAEL (6:20-26). ‘And he lifted up his eyes on his disciples, and said, a Blessed are you poor, for yours is the Kingly Rule of God (Luke 6:20). b Blessed are you who hunger...
Luke 6:24. Rich _,i.e._, fancying themselves possessed of what they crave and need. This class is made up largely of those actually wealthy....
ON THE PLAN of the Sermon on the Mount, see the Chapter comments on Matthew 5. The subject both here and in Matthew is the state and duties of a citizen of the kingdom of heaven. Van Oosterzee gives t...
Luke 6:24-26. Peculiar to Luke. The difficulty of inserting them in Matthew's report of the sermon, is one great argument against the identity of the two discourses. Some think they were uttered on a...
BUT WOE UNTO YOU THAT ARE RICH (Πλην ουα υμιν τοις πλουσιοις). Sharp contrast (πλην). As a matter of fact the rich Pharisees and Sadducees were the chief opposers of Christ as of the early disciple...
CONTENTS: Jesus and the Sabbath. Healing of a withered hand. Choosing of the twelve. Sermon on the Mount. Parable of the house built on a rock. CHARACTERS: God, Jesus, disciples, Pharisees, David, ma...
Luke 6:1. _On the second sabbath after the first._ The Hebrew law is, Leviticus 23:11, on the morrow after the sabbath, the priest shall wave the sheaf east and west, north and south, to denote the un...
BUT HOW TERRIBLE FOR YOU WHO ARE RICH NOW. Matthew does not give these. Jesus lists four "horrors" which are the exact opposite of the beatitudes he had just given, and the meaning will be found in th...
_But woe unto you that are rich! for ye have received your consolation_ THE DANGER OF RICHES Unless we were accustomed to read the New Testament from our childhood, I think we should be very much st...
LUKE—NOTE ON LUKE 6:24 YOU WHO ARE RICH. Those who delight in and trust the things of this life more than God (see Luke 1:53;...
LUKE—NOTE ON LUKE 6:12 Jesus appoints 12 apostles, then gives extended teaching to a large group of disciples, including what is often called the “Sermon on the Plain” (vv. Luke 6:20; compare the “Ser...
JESUS GIVES THE BEATITUDES MATTHEW 5:1-12; LUKE 6:17-26; MATTHEW 5:1 And seeing the multitudes, he went up into a mountain: and when he was set, his disciples came unto him:...
_But woe unto you that are rich, for ye have received your consolation._ To the four beatitudes Christ, by antithesis, opposes as many states of misery and unhappiness. The poor are blessed for all et...
CHAPTER 6 VER. 1. _And it came to pass on the second Sabbath after the first._ On the second Sabbath. The Arabic version. What was this Sabbath? 1. The eighth day of unleavened bread or the last day...
_CRITICAL NOTES_ Luke 6:20.—Though various opinions have been held on the subject, the balance of probabilities seems in favour of the supposition that the discourse commonly known as the Sermon on th...
EXPOSITION LUKE 6:1 _The Lord_'_s teaching on the question of the observance of the sabbath._ LUKE 6:1 AND IT CAME TO PASS ON THE SECOND SABBATH AFTER THE FIRST. The expression accompanying this n...
Now it came to pass on the second Sabbath (Luke 6:1) Now He is going to deal with a couple of instances on the Sabbath day. We've been introduced now to the Pharisees; they're beginning to really get...
1 Timothy 6:17; Amos 4:1; Amos 6:1; Haggai 2:9; James 2:6;...
Woe. These woes are not noted by Matthew. Have received [α π ε χ ε τ ε]. In Matthew 6:5; Matthew 6:16, the Rev. has properly changed "they have their reward" to "they have received." The verb, compoun...
Observe here, 1. That though St. Luke omits divers of the beatitudes mentioned by St. Matthew, chap. 5, yet he recites the woes which St. Matthew omitted. If we will understand our Saviour's doctrine...