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Verse Luke 11:34. The _LIGHT OF THE BODY IS THE EYE_] Or, _the eye is
the_ _lamp of the body_. Matthew 6:22, c.
The Luke 11:35 and...
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These verses are found in Matthew, but in a different connection. See
the notes at Matthew 5:15; Matthew 6:22....
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CHAPTER 11
_ 1. The Prayer Given to the Disciples (Luke 11:1 .)_
2. The Friend at Midnight. (Luke 11:5)
3. Encouragement to Pray. (Luke 11:11)
4. A Demon Cast Out and the Blasphemous Accusation. ...
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SAYINGS ABOUT LIGHT. With Luke 11:33; cf. Luke 8:16 (= Mark 4:21;
Matthew 5:15). With L
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No one lights a lamp and puts it in a cellar or under a bushel, but
upon a lamp-stand, so that those who come in may see the light. The
lamp of the body is your eye. When your eye is sound your whole...
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TEACH US TO PRAY (Luke 11:1-4)...
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LIGHT. lamp. Same word as "candle "in Luke 11:33. See App-130.
EYE. Put by Figure of speech _Metonymy_ (of Subject), App-6, for the
eyesight.
SINGLE. sound: referring to the eyesight as "good", Occ:...
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_The light of the body is the eye_ Rather, THE EYE IS THE CANDLE OF
THE BODY, since the word is the same as in the last verse.
_therefore when thine eye is single_ The eye in this clause is the
-inwa...
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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...
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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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THE INWARD LIGHT...
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Ὁ ΛΎΧΝΟΣ ΤΟΥ͂ ΣΏΜΑΤΌΣ ἘΣΤΙΝ Ὁ
ὉΦΘΑΛΜΌΣ ΣΟΥ. ‘_Thine_ eye is the lamp of the body,’
since the word is the same as in the last verse.
ὍΤΑΝ Ὁ ὈΦΘΑΛΜΌΣ ΣΟΥ ἉΠΛΟΥ͂Σ ἮΙ. The eye
in this clause is the ‘inwa...
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Ver 33. No man, when he has lighted a candle, puts it in a secret
place, neither under a bushel, but on a candlestick, that they which
come in may see the light. 34. The light of the body is the eye:...
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_THE PEOPLE WHO ARE REALLY BLESSED -- LUKE 11:27-36:_ People talked to
Jesus about who was really blessed. Jesus got right to the point and
said, "Blessed are they that hear the word of God, and keep...
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WHEN THINE EYE IS SINGLE, &C.— That they might understand his
parable, and be excited to make a proper improvement of the noble
faculty, or power, whose use he had been describing, our Lord puts
them...
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BUTLER'S COMMENTS
SECTION 3
Phenomenalism (Luke 11:29-36)
29 When the crowds were increasing, he began to say, This generation
is an evil generation; it seeks a sign, but no sign shall be given to
i...
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And he was casting out a devil, and it was dumb. And it came to pass,
when the devil was gone out, the dumb spake; and the people wondered.
See the notes at Matthew 12:22.
Verse 14-20 For the expo...
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27 This is a delicate yet decisive thrust at the slightest tendency
toward Mariolatry. Mary was indeed most blessed to be chosen to bear
such a Son, but it was a physical relationship, such as He sust...
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INWARD LIGHT AND DARKNESS. Christ is still rebuking those who refused
to believe in Him without a special sign from heaven. In St. Matthew
these vv. form part of the Sermon on the Mount....
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THE LORD'S PRAYER. THE SIGN OF JONAH
1-4. The Lord's Prayer (Matthew 6:9). See on Mt. If the Lord's Prayer
was given only once, St. Luke is probably right as to the occasion.
His version, however (as...
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LUKE’S GOOD NEWS
LUKE
_HILDA BRIGHT_
CHAPTER 11
JESUS TEACHES ABOUT PRAYER 11:1-13
1 THE PRAYER THAT JESUS TAUGHT 11:1-4
V1 One day Jesus was praying in a certain place. When he finished, one
of...
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THE LIGHT OF THE BODY IS THE EYE. — See Note on Matthew 6:22. In
some respects the sequence of thought in St. Luke differs from that in
St. Matthew, and seems somewhat closer. In the Sermon on the Mou...
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NO MAN, WHEN HE HATH LIGHTED A CANDLE,... — See Note on Matthew
5:15. Here also it seems, on the whole, more probable that we have a
portion of our Lord’s previous teaching repeated by Him in almost
i...
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Luke 11:33-36 contain parabolic utterances concerning the placing of a
light, and the conditions under which the eye sees the light....
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ὁ λύχνος, etc., the lamp of the body is thine eye. This
thought in connection with the foregoing one might lead us to expect
some remark on the proper placing of the body's lamp, but the
discourse pro...
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DARK AND FOUL WITHIN
Luke 11:33-44
“The spirit of man is the candle of the Lord,” Proverbs 20:27. How
many unlit candles there are! Will you not ask whether Christ has ever
kindled you with His divi...
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Watching the Master at prayer, His disciples were inspired with a
desire to pray, and requested that they be taught. He responded to
them in a fourfold statement. First, He gave them a model. Then He...
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_If thy eye be single. As when the eyes of the body are pure, and free
from the mixture of bad humours, the whole body is lightsome; so if
the eyes of the mind, viz. reason, faith and understanding, a...
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CHAPTER 24
THE SCRIBES AND PHARISEES SEEK A SIGN FROM HEAVEN
Matthew 12:38-45; Luke 11:16-36. “Then certain ones of the scribes
and Pharisees responded, saying, Master, we wish to see a sign from
The...
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7. _The Blasphemy of the Pharisees: Luke 11:14-36_.
We have already observed (see on Luke 6:11) how remarkably coincident
in time are the accusations called forth in Galilee by the healings on
the Sab...
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4 _th. Luke 11:29-36_. _The Second Discourse._
This is the answer of Jesus to the demand which was addressed to Him
to work a miracle proceeding from heaven (Luke 11:16). Strauss does
not think that J...
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(29) And when the people were gathered thick together, he began to
say, This is an evil generation: they seek a sign; and there shall no
sign be given it, but the sign of Jonas the prophet. (30) For a...
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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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The prayer which He taught His disciples (chapter 11) has respect also
to the position into which they came before the gift of the Holy
Ghost. [32] Jesus Himself prayed, as the dependent man on earth....
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THE LIGHT OF THE BODY IS THE EYE,.... The Vulgate Latin and all the
eastern versions read "the light of thy body is thine eye". The sense
is, that as the eye gives light, to the body, and the several...
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The light of the body is the eye: therefore when thine eye is single,
thy whole body also is full of light; but when _thine eye_ is evil,
thy body also _is_ full of darkness.
Ver. 34. _When thine eye...
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_No man, when he hath lighted a candle_ The meaning is, God gives you
this gospel-light, that ye may repent. Let your eye be singly fixed on
him, aim only at pleasing God; and while ye do this, your w...
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Candle under a bushel. Matthew 5:15; Matthew 6:22-23....
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THE LIGHT OF THE BODY IS THE EYE; THEREFORE, WHEN THINE EYE IS SINGLE,
THY WHOLE BODY ALSO IS FULL OF LIGHT; BUT WHEN THINE EYE IS EVIL, THY
BODY ALSO IS FULL OF DARKNESS....
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Parabolic warnings:...
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VALUABLE INSTRUCTION AS TO PRAYER
(vs.1-13)
As this chapter opens the Lord Jesus was exemplifying the character of
dependent communion with His Father (that character that He commended
in Mary). His...
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29-36 Christ promised that there should be one sign more given, even
the sign of Jonah the prophet; which in Matthew is explained, as
meaning the resurrection of Christ; and he warned them to improve...
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Ver. 34-36. SEE POOLE ON "MATTHEW 6:22", SEE POOLE ON "MATTHEW 6:23".
Our Saviour's speech in these verses is plainly both elliptical
(something being in itself to be understood) and also metaphorical...
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The Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs XII
The good mind hath not two tongues, of blessing and of cursing, of
insult and of honour, of sorrow and of joy, of quietness and of
trouble, of hypocrisy an...
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Luke 11:34 lamp G3088 body G4983 is G2076 (G5748) eyou G3788 Therefore
G3767 when G1875 your G4675 eyou...
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“The lamp of your body is your eye. When your eye is single, your
whole body also is full of light, but when it is evil, your body also
is full of darkness.”
And how do we light that lamp? The light c...
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Luke 11:33-36. The thoughts of these verses occur in Matthew 5:15;
Matthew 6:22-23. Here the connection is different. They wished a sign;
a greater sign than Jonah is granted them, but to perceive it...
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CHRONOLOGY. The miracle and discourses here recorded are probably
identical with those narrated in Matthew 12:22-45; Mark 3:23-30. Some
have supposed that Luke gives the exact position, and not the ot...
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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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Luke 11:14. _And he was casting out a devil, and it was dumb. And it
came to pass, when the devil was gone out, the dumb spake and the
people wondered. But some of them said, He casteth out devils thr...
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CONTENTS: Jesus' doctrine of prayer. Jesus charged with casting out
demons by Beelzebub, and His answer. Woes denounced upon the Pharisees
and lawyers.
CHARACTERS: Jesus, disciples, Satan, Jonah, Sol...
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Luke 11:1. _Lord, teach us to pray, as John also taught his
disciples._ The disciples of John were eminent for fasting and prayer;
and though the prayers of the jews were good, yet they were not
exact...
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AND THEN HIDES IT. See notes on Matthew 5:15; Matthew 6:22-23. IF,
THEN, YOUR WHOLE BODY IS FULL OF LIGHT. Symbolic of the Christian's
influence. See Matthew 5:16. Also symbolic of eternal glory ...
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_The light of the body is the eye_
THE SINGLE EYE
The eye is evil when the vision is incorrect, double; is single when
it lays hold of one object with clearness and firmness.
Shut the eye, or if th...
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LUKE—NOTE ON LUKE 11:34 An EYE that is HEALTHY describes a
spiritually healthy way of looking at things. A BAD eye is an evil way
of looking at things. It results in a life...
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Jesus teaches about being the light of the world Matthew 5:14-16; Mark
4:21-22; Luke 8:16-18; Luke 11:33-36;...
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CHAPTER 11 VER. 2. _When ye pray, say, Our Father which art in heaven,
hallowed be Thy name_. S. Matthew adds this prayer to the sermon on
the mount, whilst S. Luke places it at a later period. Either...
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_CRITICAL NOTES_
Luke 11:14. CASTING OUT A DEVIL.—There seems to be little doubt that
this miracle is the same as that in Matthew 12:22, as wrought
apparently in Galilee. In St. Matthew’s Gospel there...
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EXPOSITION
LUKE 11:1
The _Lord_'_s teaching on the_ _subject of prayer. _Again the scene is
far away from Jerusalem; no special note of _time _or _place _enables
us to fix the scene or date with any...
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Tonight, chapter 11 in the gospel according to Luke.
Again, as Luke is pointing out the human side of Jesus, though He was
God, He became man. He is the God-man. He is divine, and yet, He is
human. Th...
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2 Corinthians 1:12; 2 Corinthians 11:3; 2 Corinthians 4:4; 2 Kings
6:15;...
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Single - full of light. See on Matthew 6:22....
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But when thine eye is evil — When thou aimest at any thing else,
thou wilt be full of folly, sin, and misery. On the contrary, Matthew
6:22....