Verse Luke 10:20. _BECAUSE YOUR NAMES ARE WRITTEN IN HEAVEN._] This form of speech is taken from the ancient custom of writing the names of all the citizens in a public register, that the several fam...
RATHER REJOICE ... - Though it was an honor to work miracles, though it is an honor to be endowed with talents, and influence, and learning, yet it is a subject of “chief” joy that we are numbered amo...
CHAPTER 10 _ 1. The Seventy Appointed. (Luke 10:1)_ 2. The Return of the Seventy and the True Rejoicing. (Luke 10:17) 3. Jesus Rejoiced in Spirit. (Luke 10:21) 4. The Question of the Lawyer. ...
RETURN OF THE SEVENTY. With Luke 10:17; cf. Luke 9:10 = Mark 6:30. The missioners report that the demons obey them in the name of Jesus. Jesus assents; He had watched Satan fall from heaven during the...
The Seventy returned with joy. "Lord, they said, "at your name the demons are subject to us." He said to them, "I saw Satan fall like lightning from Heaven. Look you--I have given you authority to wal...
LABOURERS FOR THE HARVEST (Luke 10:1-16)...
NOTWITHSTANDING. Greek. _plen,_ as in Luke 10:11. rendered "But" in Luke 10:14, an emphatic conjunction. SPIRITS. App-101. ARE WRITTEN. have been written (T Tr. WI R), or in-scribed (TWH). See Exodus...
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...
_are written in heaven_ Rather, HAVE BEEN RECORDED IN THE HEAVENS (reading ἐγγέγραπται _)._On this -Book of God," or -Book of Life," see Exodus 32:32; Psalms 69:28 _;_Daniel 12:1;...
ΜῊ ΧΑΊΡΕΤΕ … ΧΑΊΡΕΤΕ ΔῈ ὍΤΙ. Here, as often, the ‘not’ followed by ‘but’ means ‘_not so much_ … as that.’ “Nolite _tam_ propterea laetari … _quam potius_.” This idiom, which is very important to obser...
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...
Luke 10:1-24. THE MISSION OF THE SEVENTY...
VER 17. AND THE SEVENTY RETURNED AGAIN WITH JOY, SAYING, LORD, EVEN THE DEVILS ARE SUBJECT TO US THROUGH YOUR NAME. 18. AND HE SAID TO THEM, I BEHELD SATAN AS LIGHTNING FALL FROM HEAVEN. 19. BEHOLD, I...
_THE WORK OF THE SEVENTY -- LUKE 10:1-20:_ The Lord sent out seventy of His followers to carry His message into every village. He said, "The harvest truly is great, but the labourers are few: pray ye...
ΧΑΊΡΕΤΕ _praes. imper. act. от_ ΧΑΊΡΩ (G5463) ликовать. _Praes. imper._ с отр. ΜΉ (G3361) указывает, что так относиться не надо, ΈΓΓΈΓΡΑΠΤΑΙ _perf. ind. pass. от_ ΈΓΓΡΆΦΩ (G1449) записывать, запечат...
DISCOURSE: 1513 THE ENROLMENT OF OUR NAMES IN HEAVEN, A GROUND OF JOY Luke 10:20. _Notwithstanding, in this rejoice not, that the spirits are subject unto you; but rather rejoice because your names a...
BECAUSE YOUR NAMES ARE WRITTEN IN HEAVEN.— Not by an absolute decree, but approved and accepted of God, on account of their faith and sincerity. Many are of opinion, that this is an allusion to the en...
BUTLER'S COMMENTS SECTION 1 Preaching the Kingdom (Luke 10:1-24) 10 After this the Lord appointed seventy others, and sent them on ahead of him, two by two, into every town and place where he himsel...
Notwithstanding in this rejoice not, that the spirits are subject unto you; but rather rejoice, because your names are written in heaven. NOTWITHSTANDING IN THIS REJOICE NOT (THAT IS, NOT SO MUCH)...
1 As the Lord was on His way to celebrate the festival of Ingathering, this,vas actually the time of harvest and He was comparing the physical to the spiritual state of the country. At harvest time th...
THE SEVENTY. THE GOOD SAMARITAN. MARTHA AND MARY 1-16. Choice and mission of the Seventy (peculiar to Lk). Another step in the organisation of the Church. The Seventy receive a subordinate commission,...
RETURN OF THE SEVENTY (peculiar to Lk)....
Jesus bids the disciples rejoice not, as they are doing, because they have miraculous powers, but because their names are enrolled as citizens of heaven in the book of life (Isaiah 4:3; Daniel 12:1; E...
LUKE’S GOOD NEWS LUKE _HILDA BRIGHT_ CHAPTER 10 JESUS SENDS OUT MORE *DISCIPLES 10:1-12 V1 After this, the *Lord chose 72 other *disciples and sent them out in pairs. He told them to go ahead of...
NOTWITHSTANDING IN THIS REJOICE NOT. — Above all exercise of power was the consciousness of the divine life, the feeling that they had a Father in heaven who had, to speak after the manner of men, reg...
_Return of the Seventy_. No such report of the doings of the Twelve, and of their Master's congratulations, is given in any of the Gospels (_cf._ Mark 6:30-31). It seems as if Lk. attached more import...
πλὴν has adversative force here = yet, nevertheless. The joy of the Seventy was in danger of becoming overjoy, running into self-importance; hence the warning word, which is best understood in the lig...
THE SOURCES OF DEEPEST JOY Luke 10:17-24 How triumphant the return of the evangelist! With faces flushed with pride and hearts high with elation, they returned to the Master with their reports. What...
The mission of the seventy is recorded only by Luke. They went forth, sent by Jesus. They returned glad in the victories they had wrought in His name. He received them, and declared to them the whole...
CHAPTER 6. REPORT OF THE SEVENTY EVANGELISTS Luke 10:17-24. When our Savior was at Capernaum, in Galilee, about September first, He called these Seventy, and sent them out two by two, thus constituti...
3. _The Sending of the Seventy. Disciples: Luke 10:1-24_. Though Jesus proceeded slowly from city to city, and from village to village, He had but little time to devote to each place. It was therefore...
2 _d. The Return: Luke 10:17-24_. Jesus had appointed a rendezvous for His disciples at a fixed place. From the word ὑπέστρεψαν, _they returned_ (Luke 10:17), it would even appear that the place was t...
(17) And the seventy returned again with joy, saying, Lord, even the devils are subject unto us through thy name. (18) And he said unto them, I beheld Satan as lightning fall from heaven. (19) Behold,...
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...
_TEMPTATIONS OF A USEFUL LIFE_ ‘In this rejoice not, that the spirits are subject unto you; but rather rejoice, because your names are written in heaven.’ Luke 10:20 We always require to obey Chris...
20._Your names are written. _As it was the design of Christ to withdraw his disciples from a transitory joy, that they might glory in eternal life, he leads them to its origin and source, which is, th...
The mission of the seventy follows in chapter 10, a mission important in its character for the development of the ways of God. This character is, in fact, different in some respects from that of the b...
NOTWITHSTANDING IN THIS REJOICE NOT,.... That their power was enlarged, or that they had, the same as before: THAT THE SPIRITS, evil spirits, devils, are subject unto you; and come out of men at your...
Notwithstanding in this rejoice not, that the spirits are subject unto you; but rather rejoice, because your names are written in heaven. Ver. 20. _That your names are written_] That you are enrolled...
_And the seventy returned_ The seventy disciples, having gone through the several parts of the country appointed them, returned and told their Master with great joy what they had done, _saying, Lord,...
YOUR NAMES ARE WRITTEN IN HEAVEN; as heirs of eternal life....
NOTWITHSTANDING IN THIS REJOICE NOT, THAT THE SPIRITS ARE SUBJECT UNTO YOU, BUT RATHER REJOICE BECAUSE YOUR NAMES ARE WRITTEN IN HEAVEN. The mission of the seventy was attended with great success, as...
The return and report of the seventy:...
THE SENDING OF SEVENTY OTHERS (vs.1-16) As we progress in this Gospel, earthly things tend to recede and heaven comes gradually more into view, specially following the transfiguration (ch.9:8-36) an...
17-24 All our victories over Satan, are obtained by power derived from Jesus Christ, and he must have all the praise. But let us beware of spiritual pride, which has been the destruction of many. Our...
It is a usual thing in holy writ, to have prohibitions delivered in general terms, which must be understood in a restrained sense. That it is so here, appeareth plainly by the word RATHER, prefixed to...
Tertullian Against Marcion Book IV To be sure he did, as being an envious (spirit), and in his very confession only petulant, and evil in adulation-just as if it had been Christ's highest glory to ha...
Luke 10:20 Nevertheless G4133 not G3361 rejoice G5463 (G5720) in G1722 this G5129 that G3754 spirits G4151 subject...
“Nevertheless do not rejoice in this, that the spirits are subject to you, but rejoice that your names are written in heaven.” However, while they may rejoice in the spirits being subject to them they...
THE SEVENTY (TWO) RETURN (10:17-20). The return of the disciples, rejoicing in their being able to cast out evil spirits in Jesus' name, leads on to Jesus confirmation of the defeat of Satan and of th...
Luke 10:20. REJOICE NOT IN THIS. This is an absolute prohibition of rejoicing _solely_ in the power spoken of. The power is great, and joy in such delegated power is _dangerous,_ may be joined with pr...
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...
THE MISSION OF THE SEVENTY. Peculiar to Luke. The labors of this large body of disciples were brief, their mission temporary. The incident has no bearing upon questions of ecclesiastical position. Our...
ARE WRITTEN (ενγεγραπτα). Perfect passive indicative, state of completion, stand written, enrolled or engraved, from ενγραφω, common verb. "As citizens possessing the full privileges of the commonw...
Luke 10:20 The Temptations besetting a Useful Life. I. It well shows how much we always require to obey Christ's command, to watch and pray lest we enter into temptation, that even our very duties ma...
Our Lord was about to send out seventy disciples to preach the gospel. He had already chosen his twelve apostles; now there must be seventy disciples, something like Moses had seventy elders to serve...
CONTENTS: The 70 sent out. Jesus denounces Judgment on cities. Parable of the good Samaritan. Martha and Mary entertain Jesus. CHARACTERS: Jesus, 70 witnesses, Satan, lawyer, Martha, Mary. CONCLUSION...
Luke 10:1. _The Lord appointed other seventy also, and sent them two and two._ This was after the twelve had returned, and brought reports of the eager cries of the people for the word of life. Some o...
THE SEVENTY-TWO MEN CAME BACK IN GREAT JOY. Luke seems to emphasize the work of these seventy-two. How long they had been out on their mission is not known. EVEN THE DEMONS OBEYED US. Jesus gave a pro...
_The seventy returned_ THE SEVENTY I. COMMISSION OF THE SEVENTY. 1. They were commissioned of Christ. 2. They were commissioned of Christ to prepare the way before Him. 3. They received special d...
CHAPTER 10 VER. 1. _After these things the Lord also._ Seventy-two. Vulgate. Dorotheus and others profess to give their names, but Eusebius declares that he knew of no written list of these seventy di...
_CRITICAL NOTES_ Luke 10:17. RETURNED.—The mission may not have occupied more than a few days: probably a time and place of rendezvous had been appointed. EVEN THE DEVILS.—Their success had exceeded...
EXPOSITION LUKE 10:1 _The mission of the seventy. The Lord_'_s words to them of instruction and direction and warning._ LUKE 10:1 AFTER THESE THINGS THE LORD APPOINTED OTHER SEVENTY ALSO. That is...
Now in chapter 10, we read of this commissioning in the sending forth of the seventy, in the contrast to the twelve of chapter 9. After these things (Luke 10:1) Now He is on His way towards Jerusale...
1 Corinthians 13:2; 1 Corinthians 13:3; Daniel 12:1; Exodus 32:32;...
THE SENDING FORTH OF THE SEVENTY Luke 10:1 INTRODUCTORY WORDS We have here a most important theme, THE SENDING FORTH OF THE SEVENTY. There are some things in general which we feel led to suggest he...
Rejoice not so much that the devils are subject to you, as that your names are written in heaven — Reader, so is thine, if thou art a true, believer. God grant it may never be blotted out!...
In these words of our Saviour there is something corrective, and something directive: the corrective part lies in the first words, wherein Christ checks the suspected excesses of their joy for victori...