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 abrovs. It is only here and in Luke 18:9 that the explanation or point of a parable is given before the parable itself. Both parables are peculiar to St Luke. The duty inculcated is rather urgentprayer (as in Luke 11:5-13) than that spirit of unflagging prayer which is elsewhere enforced, Luke 21:36; 1 Thessalonians 5:17; Ephesians 6:18. "Prayer is the soid" s sincere desire Uttered, or unexpressed."

and not to faint The word used is a late word meaning to give in through cowardice, or give upfrom faint-heartedness. It is a Pauline word, 2 Corinthians 4:1; 2 Corinthians 4:16; Galatians 6:9.

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