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Verse 51. _TO GIVE PEACE_] See Matthew 10:34....
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See the notes at Matthew 10:34....
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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. ...
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SIGNS OF THE TIMES. For parallels see below. Jesus is oppressed with
the thought of the future till it is accomplished.
LUKE 12:49 F. Lk. only. Fire is what Jesus has come to cast on the
earth (_cf._...
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THE CREED OF COURAGE AND OF TRUST (Luke 12:1-12)...
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Jesus said, "I came to cast fire upon the earth. And what do I wish?
Would that it were already kindled! There is an experience through
which I must pass; and now I am under tension until it is
accomp...
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I AM COME. I became present, as in Acts 21:18.
TO GIVE PEACE. This was the _object of_ His coming (Isaiah 9:6; Isaiah
9:7): but the _e. fect of His_ presence would bring war. He came not
to judge ...
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ΔΟΚΕΙ͂ΤΕ. As they were far too much inclined to suppose, Luke
19:11.
ὍΤΙ ΕἸΡΉΝΗΝ ΠΑΡΕΓΕΝΌΜΗΝ ΔΟΥ͂ΝΑΙ ἘΝ
ΤΗ͂Ι ΓΗ͂Ι. It is only in His _ultimate_ kingdom that Christ
will be fully the Prince of Peace, a...
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LESSONS OF TRUSTFULNESS (22–32), ALMSGIVING (33, 34), AND FAITHFUL
WATCHFULNESS (35–48). THE SEARCHING EFFECT OF CHRIST’S WORK
(49–53)...
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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...
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Ver 49. I am come to send fire on the earth, and what will I, if it be
already kindled? 50. But I have a baptism to be baptized with; and how
am I straightened till it be accomplished! 51. Suppose you...
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ΠΑΡΕΓΕΝΌΜΗΝ _aor. ind. med. (dep.) от_
ΠΑΡΑΓΊΝΟΜΑΙ (G3854) прибывать, приходить,
ΔΟΎΝΑΙ _aor. act. inf., см._ Luke 12:32. _Inf._ цели,
ΔΙΑΜΕΡΙΣΜΌΣ (G1267) разделение....
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SUPPOSE YE, &C.— By subduing all the nations of the world into one
great monarchy, under the Jews? _I tell you nay._ There are so many
prophesies of the peaceful state of the Messiah's kingdom, that i...
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APPLEBURY'S COMMENTS
_The Mission of the Son of Man
Scripture_
Luke 12:49-53 I came to cast fire upon the earth; and what do I
desire, if it is already kindled? 50 But I have a baptism to be
baptized...
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BUTLER'S COMMENTS
SECTION 4
Attitudes That Aid Alertness (Luke 12:49-59)
49 I came to cast fire upon the earth; and would that it were already
kindled!50I have a baptism to be baptized with; and how...
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Suppose ye that I am come to give peace on earth? I tell you, Nay;
but rather division:
SUPPOSE YE THAT I AM COME TO GIVE PEACE ON EARTH? I TELL YOU, NAY -
`in the first instance, the reverse.'...
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39 As most of the houses in Palestine were built of sun-dried clay, or
adobe, a thief could best effect an entrance by digging his way
through the walls. They literally burrowed their way into a house...
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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...
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THE STRIFE THAT THE GOSPEL WILL PRODUCE. In different connexions in
Mt....
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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...
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(51-53) SUPPOSE YE THAT I AM COME TO GIVE PEACE? — See Notes on
Matthew 10:34. The chief variations are “division” for
“sword,” and, in Luke 12:53, the doubled statement of reciprocated
enmity in each...
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διαμερισμόν : instead of Mt.'s μάχαιραν, an
abstract prosaic term for a concrete pictorial one; exactly
descriptive of the fact, however, and avoiding possible
misapprehension as to Christ's aim = Jes...
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_Not peace but division_ (Matthew 10:34-36). This section is
introduced by no connecting particle. Yet there is a certain affinity
of thought. Strict fidelity demanded under penalties, but fidelity no...
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THE GREAT DIVIDER
Luke 12:49-59
As Prometheus, in the old Greek fable, brought fire from above in a
reed, so Christ brought the fire of the Holy Spirit in the frail
lantern of His humanity. But, firs...
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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...
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THE FIERY BAPTISM
Luke 12:49-53. _“I came to send fire on the earth, and what do I
wish if it is already kindled?”_ This is none other than the fiery
baptism of Pentecost, which Jesus came to send on...
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After having thus followed the natural course of the conversation,
Jesus returns to the thought from which it had started, the vanity of
earthly goods. He shows how this truth directly applies to the...
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4 _th. To the Apostles: Luke 12:41-53_.
Up till now, Jesus had been speaking to all believers; from this
point, on occasion of a question put by Peter, He addresses the
apostles in particular, and rem...
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(49) I am come to send fire on the earth, and what will I, if it be
already kindled? (50) But I have a baptism to be baptized with, and
how am I straitened till it be accomplished? (51) Suppose ye tha...
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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...
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Luke 12:51._Do you suppose that I came to send peace on the earth?
_What Christ has now demanded from his disciples any one of them would
reckon it an easy matter to give, if the whole world, with one...
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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...
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SUPPOSE YE THAT I AM COME TO GIVE PEACE ON EARTH?.... To set up a
temporal kingdom, in great pomp, and outward peace and tranquility?
Christ came to make peace with God for men, and to give the Gospel...
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Suppose ye that I am come to give peace on earth? I tell you, Nay; but
rather division:
Ver. 51. See Matthew 10:34 ....
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_I am come to send fire on earth_ Our Lord concludes his charge to his
disciples with foretelling the divisions that should be occasioned by
his gospel. See on Matthew 10:34. As if he had said, After...
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RATHER DIVISION; Christ came to send divisions in the same sense in
which he came to send fire and sword. His gospel would not produce
divisions, but men's opposition to it would. Luke 12:19; MATTHEW...
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The dissension caused by the Gospel:...
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SUPPOSE YE THAT I AM COME TO GIVE PEACE ON EARTH? I TELL YOU, NAY; BUT
RATHER DIVISION;...
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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,...
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41-53 All are to take to themselves what Christ says in his word, and
to inquire concerning it. No one is left so ignorant as not to know
many things to be wrong which he does, and many things to be...
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Ver. 51-53. SEE POOLE ON "MATTHEW 10:34", SEE POOLE ON "MATTHEW
10:35". Our Saviour in these words doth but pursue the same argument
which began LUKE 12:49, to show what would be the consequences of t...
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Tertullian Against Marcion Book IV
, when He goes on to say, "Suppose ye that I am come to give peace on
earth? I tell you, Nay; but rather division."[1209]
Recognitions of Clement II
For you say, t...
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Luke 12:51 suppose G1380 (G5719) that G3754 came G3854 (G5633) give
G1325 (G5629) peace G1515 on...
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“Do you think that I am come to give peace in the earth? I tell you,
No, but rather division.”
Having spoken of the fire that He is casting on the earth He now
stresses what its result will be, that r...
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THE FUTURE WILL NOT ALL BE ROSY (12:49-53).
As Jesus contemplates the thought of the punishments which will be
inflicted on the various unfaithful servants, it carries His thought
forward on to what n...
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Luke 12:51-53. See on Matthew 10:34-36, which however was probably
spoken later than this.
DIVISION is equivalent to ‘a sword' (Matthew). This would be the
effect of the ‘fire' He would send. His own...
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Luke 12:49-53. Having shown the awful difference between the faithful
and unfaithful servant, and the great responsibility resting upon His
disciples, our Lord points out that the difference begins he...
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CONTENTS. A continuation of the discourse. Luke 12:35-48 contain
exhortations to _watchfulness;_ the difference between the faithful
and unfaithful servant suggests a difficulty in the way of
faithful...
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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...
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BUT RATHER DIVISION
(αλλ' η διαμερισμον). Peace at any price is not the
purpose of Christ. It is a pity for family jars to come, but loyalty
to Christ counts more than all else. These ringing words...
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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...
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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...
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NOT PEACE, I TELL YOU, BUT DIVISION. Following Jesus sometimes "tears
us loose" from both people and things we love. See note _on_ Matthew
10:34....
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_Suppose ye that I am come to give peace on earth?_
STRIFE ENGENDERED BY THE GOSPEL
We try to soften this terrible prophecy by our comments. As if we
could explain facts which are notorious to every...
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LUKE—NOTE ON LUKE 12:49 CAST FIRE ON THE EARTH probably refers to
the division between believers and unbelievers (vv. Luke 12:51). I
have a bapti
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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...
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_Think ye that I am come to give peace in the earth? I_ _tell you nay,
but rather division._ See what I have said Matthew 10:34....
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VER. 42. _And the Lord said, Who then is that faithful and wise
steward whom his lord shall set over his household to give them their
portion of food in due season?_ Christ replied to Peter that He sp...
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_CRITICAL NOTES_
Luke 12:49. I AM COME.—Rather, “I came” (R.V.). The tense refers
to the historical fact of the Incarnation. Note in this the
consciousness of pre-existence, as also of a heavenly orig...
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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...
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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...
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Luke 12:49; Matthew 10:34; Matthew 24:7; Zechariah 11:10;...
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Suppose ye that I am come to send peace upon earth — That universal
peace will be the immediate effect of my coming? Not so, but quite the
contrary. Matthew 10:34....