καθελῶ. In Attic the future of αἰρέω is αἱρήσω. The fut. ἑλῶ is late.
ἀποθήκας. ‘Storehouses’ (not only for corn). He never thought of the admonition of the Son of Sirach, “Shut up alms in thy storehouses,” Sir 29:12.
τὰ γενήματά μου. Not the same word as before. Rather, ‘my produce.’
τὰ�. Such ‘good things’ as he was alone capable of recognising, Luke 16:25. And “all my goods,” with no mention of the poor.
Verse Luke 12:18. _I WILL PULL DOWN_, c.] The rich are full of _designs_ concerning this life, but in general take no thought about eternity till the time that their _goods_ and their _lives_ are both...
I WILL PULL DOWN MY BARNS - The word “barns” here, properly means, “granaries,” or places exclusively designed to put wheat, barley, etc. They were commonly made, by the ancients, “underground,” where...
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....
THE CREED OF COURAGE AND OF TRUST (Luke 12:1-12)...
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...
BARNS. granaries. FRUITS. produce. Not the same word as in Luke 12:17. Tr. WI. read "the corn". GOODS. good things....
_my barns_ Rather, storehouses (_apothekas_not only for corn). He never thought of the admonition of the Son of Sirach, "Shut up _alms_in thy storehouses," Sir 29:12 _._ my fruits Not the same word 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...
Ver 16. And he spoke a parable to them, saying, The ground of a certain rich man brought forth plentifully: 17. And he thought within himself, saying, What shall I do, because I have no room where to...
ΚΑΘΕΛΏ _fut. ind. act. от_ ΚΑΘΑΙΡΈΩ (G2507) сносить. Волитивный FUT., указывающий на цель и решимость в ее достижении (RG, 874). ΆΠΟΘΉΚΑΣ _асс. pl. от_ АΠΟΘΉΚΗ (G596) хранилище, амбар, житница. В Сеп...
ALL MY FRUITS AND MY GOODS.— _All my increase and good things:_ that is, "There will I collect and lay up all this year's increase, and likewise the produce of former years which I have in store....
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 spake a parable unto them, saying, The ground of a certain rich man brought forth plentifully: And he spake a parable ... The ground of a certain rich man brought forth plentifully: And he t...
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...
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....
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...
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...
I WILL PULL DOWN MY BARNS. — The Greek noun (_apothekè,_ whence our “apothecary,”) has a somewhat wider meaning, and includes storehouses or warehouses of all kinds. ALL MY FRUITS. — Here, too, the G...
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...
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....
_Parable of the rich fool_, simply a story embodying in concrete form the principle just enunciated: teaching the lesson of Psalms 49, and containing apparent echoes of Sir 11:17-3....
τὸν σῖτον (or τὰ γενήματα): may refer to the fruits (καρπούς, Luke 12:17) of the season, τὰ ἀγαθὰ to the accumulated possessions of bygone years....
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...
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...
_THE RICH FOOL_ ‘And he said, This will I do … But God said unto him, Thou fool.’ Luke 12:18 How busy are the streets of a great city! How anxious and eager are some of the faces we meet! Look at t...
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, THIS WILL I DO,.... This was the resolution he came to, and which he took up, without consulting God, or asking leave of him: I WILL PULL DOWN MY BARNS, AND BUILD GREATER; which was not...
And he said, This will I do: I will pull down my barns, and build greater; and there will I bestow all my fruits and my goods. Ver. 18. _My barns_] So my fruits, and my goods, all was his; God came n...
To illustrate his admonition, and give it the greater weight, our Lord here delivers an important parable. _The ground of a rich man brought forth plentifully_ This man, it appears, became rich, not b...
AND HE SAID, THIS WILL I DO: I WILL PULL DOWN MY BARNS AND BUILD GREATER; AND THERE WILL I BESTOW ALL MY FRUITS AND MY GOODS....
The parable of the rich man:...
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...
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Luke 12:18 So G2532 said G2036 (G5627) do G4160 (G5692) this G5124 down G2507 (G5692) my...
“And he said, This will I do, I will pull down my barns, and build greater, and there will I bestow all my grain and my goods.” And he resolved his problem by deciding that he would build larger barns...
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...
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...
Luke 12:13-21. WARNING AGAINST COVETOUS-NESS. 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...
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...
I WILL PULL DOWN (καθελω). Future active of καθαιρεω, an old verb, the usual future being καθαιρησω. This second form from the second aorist καθειλον (from obsolete ελω) like αφελε in Revelation 22...
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 12:13. _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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
THEN JESUS TOLD THEM THIS PARABLE. To show that riches are no protection. A RICH MAN HAD LAND. No hint that this man was dishonest. He worked hard for what he had. WHAT CAN I DO? His riches were in th...
_The ground of a certain rich man brought forth plentifully_ A SUCCESSFUL WORLDLY POLICY I. THE PICTURE OF A SUCCESSFUL WORLDLY POLICY. 1. No sin in worldly success. 2. No sin in wise and thoughtf...
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...
_And he said, This will I do, I will pull down my barns_, &c. All the harvests collected in past years. He took counsel of his cupidity, not of his charity, which would have said to him, "Spend them o...
_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...
James 3:15; James 4:15; Luke 12:21; Luke 18:4; Luke 18:6;...
Fruits [γ ε ν η μ α τ α]. Some texts, however, read ton siton, my corn. So Rev....