συνκαλεῖ. Some MSS. read συγκαλεῖται, which would express a more personal joy, just as ἦν� expresses a more personal loss.
εὖρον τὴν δραχμὴν ἣν�. She does not say ‘my piece.’ If the woman be intended to represent the Church, the loss of the ‘piece’ entrusted to her may be in part, at least, her own fault.
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...
THE SHEPHERD'S JOY (Luke 15:1-7)...
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...
FRIENDS. Female friends (feminine) THE PIECE. Not "my", as in Luke 15:6. I HAD LOST. I lost. Compare "was lost" in Luke 15:6....
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...
_I have found the piece which I had lost_ She does not say -my piece." If the woman be intended to represent the Church, the loss of the -piece" entrusted to her may be in part, at least, her own faul...
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...
ΕΎ ΡΟΎΣΑ _aor. act. part. (temp.) пот. fem. sing., см._ Luke 15:4. ΦΊΛΑΣ _асс. pl. от_ ΦΊΛΗ (G5384) подруга, ΕΎΡΟΝ _aor. ind. act., см._ Luke 15:4. ΑΠΏΛΕΣΑ _aor. ind. act., см._...
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...
SHE CALLETH HER FRIENDS, &C.— Her female friends, —τας φιλας. It might seem hardly worth while to ask the congratulation of her friends on so small an occasion as finding a _drachma;_ (for that is the...
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...
And when she hath found it, she calleth her friends and her neighbours together, saying, Rejoice with me; for I have found the piece which I had lost. AND WHEN SHE HATH FOUND IT, SHE CALLETH HER F...
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,...
FRIENDS] lit. female friends and neighbours....
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...
συγκαλεῖ : this calling together of friends and neighbours (feminine in this case, τὰς φ. καὶ τὰς γ.) peculiarly natural in the case of a woman; hence perhaps the reading of T.R., συγκαλεῖται, the mid...
_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...
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...
_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...
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...
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...
_LOST AND FOUND_ ‘Rejoice with me; for I have found my sheep … [and] the piece which I had lost.’ Luke 15:6 We have here two beautiful pictures. Though the lesson to be learned from each is the sam...
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...
AND WHEN SHE HATH FOUND IT, SHE CALLETH HER FRIENDS,.... Luke 15:6 a parable somewhat like to this, the Jews x have on those words in Proverbs 2:4 "If thou seekest her as silver", c. "it is like to...
And when she hath found _it_, she calleth _her_ friends and _her_ neighbours together, saying, Rejoice with me; for I have found the piece which I had lost. Ver. 9. _Rejoice with me_] What greater jo...
_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....
The parable of the lost piece of silver:...
AND WHEN SHE HATH FOUND IT, SHE CALLETH HER FRIENDS AND NEIGHBORS TOGETHER, SAYING, REJOICE WITH ME; FOR I HAVE FOUND THE PIECE WHICH I HAD LOST....
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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Luke 15:9 And G2532 found G2147 (G5631) calls G4779 friends G5384 and G2532 neighbors G1069 together G4779 ...
“And when she has found it, she calls together her friends and neighbours, saying, ‘Rejoice with me, for I have found the piece which I had lost.' ” And when she has found the coin she calls her frie...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Luke 15:9. SHE CALLETH. She remains in the house ; the Spirit dwells in the church, and there the angels rejoice (see Luke 15:10)....
Luke 15:8-10. THE PARABLE OF THE LOST PIECE OR MONEY. Peculiar to Luke....
Luke 15:8. AND HIS LORD, _i.e.,_ the lord of the steward, of course, not the Lord Jesus. THE UNJUST STEWARD, lit., ‘the steward of unrighteousness.' This phrase stamps the conduct of the steward as i...
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 15:9. 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...
HER FRIENDS AND NEIGHBOURS (τας φιλας κα γειτονας). Note single article and female friends (feminine article and φιλας). Hεως ου ευρη here as in verse Luke 15:4, only ου added after εως (until whic...
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...
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...
_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...
Luke 15:6; Luke 15:7...
Her friends. Female friends, for the noun is used in the feminine form. I lost. Through her own carelessness. Of the sheep, Jesus says "was lost." " A sheep strays of itself, but a piece of money coul...
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...