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Verse Luke 15:8. _TEN PIECES OF SILVER_] δραχμας δεκα,
_ten drachmas_. I think it always best to retain the names of these
ancient coins, and to state their value in English money. Every reader
will...
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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...
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CHAPTER 15
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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...
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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...
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THE SHEPHERD'S JOY (Luke 15:1-7)...
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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...
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EITHER. This parable is recorded only in Luke.
WOMAN. Here representing the Holy Spirit.
TEN. See the Structures of Luke 15:2 in the Luke book comments.
PIECES OF SILVER. Greek _drachmas._ Occurs o...
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_having ten pieces of silver_ Ten drachmas. This parable is peculiar
to St Luke. The Greek drachma (about] _od.)_corresponds to the Latin
denarius. Each represented a day's wages, and may be roughly r...
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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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THE LOST SHEEP...
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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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ΔΡΑΧΜᾺΣ ἜΧΟΥΣΑ ΔΈΚΑ. Ten drachmas. This parable is
peculiar to St Luke. The Greek drachma (about 10_d._) corresponds to
the Latin denarius. Each represented a day’s wages, and may be
roughly rendered...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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?
EITHER WHAT WOMAN, HAVING TEN PIECES OF SI...
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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,...
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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...
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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...
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PIECES] Gk. _drachma_, a coin equivalent in value to the Roman
_denarius_ (Matthew 18:28)....
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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...
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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...
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EITHER WHAT WOMAN HAVING TEN PIECES OF SILVER. — The main lesson of
the parable that thus opens is, of course, identical with that of the
Lost Sheep. We are justified, however, in assuming that the sp...
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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...
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ἅπτει λ., lights a lamp. The verb used in this sense in N.T.
only in Lk. No windows in the dwellings of the poor: a lamp must be
lighted for the search, unless indeed there be one always burning on
th...
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_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...
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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...
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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...
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In the preceding parable, the race of mankind is compared to a lost
sheep, to teach us that we are the creatures of the most high God, who
made us, and not we ourselves, of whose pasture we are the sh...
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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...
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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...
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_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...
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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...
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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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_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...
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_THE LOST COIN_
‘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.’
Luke 15:8
Dust flying, co...
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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...
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EITHER WHAT WOMAN, HAVING TEN PIECES OF SILVER,.... Or "drachmas": a
"drachma" was the fourth part of a shekel, and of the same value with
a Roman penny; and was worth of our money, seven pence half p...
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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_ ?
Ver. 8. _If she lose once piece_] One Test...
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_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...
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This parable is another illustration of the same truth....
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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?...
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The parable of the lost piece of silver:...
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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...
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PIECES OF SILVER:
Drachma here translated a piece of silver, is the eighth part of an
ounce, which cometh to seven pence half penny, and is equal to the
Roman penny, Matthew 18:28...
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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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Ver. 8-10. This parable (as appeareth by the conclusion of it) is of
the same import with the other, and needs no further explication. By
both these parables our blessed Lord lets the Pharisees know t...
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Irenaeus Against Heresies Book I
In the same way they oracularly declare, that one power having
departed also from the Duodecad, has perished; and this was
represented by the woman who lost the drach...
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Luke 15:8 Or G2228 what G5101 woman G1135 having G2192 (G5723) ten
G1176 coins G1406 if G1437 loses...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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“Or what woman, having ten pieces of silver (ten drachmae), if she
lose one piece (drachma), does not light a lamp, and sweep the house,
and seek diligently until she find it?”
In this case the woman...
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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...
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Luke 15:7. AN HUNDRED MEASURES. The Hebrew measure (‘cor') is here
spoken of, equal to ten ephahs.
WRITE EIGHTY. The variation in the amount deducted is without any
special meaning. Still we may find...
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Luke 15:8. HAVING TEN PIECES OF SILVER. The women of Nazareth still
wear around the forehead and face a roll of silver coins, called
‘semedi;' to which the Saviour here alludes. The coins spoken of ar...
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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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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...
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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...
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Luke 15:8-10. THE PARABLE OF THE LOST PIECE OR MONEY. Peculiar to
Luke....
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TEN PIECES OF SILVER
(δραχμας δεκα). The only instance in the N.T. of this old
word for a coin of 65.5 grains about the value of the common
δηναριυς (about eighteen cents), a quarter of a Jewish she...
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PIECES OF SILVER
Greek, "drachma", here translated "a piece of silver", is the eighth
part of an ounce, and is equal to the Roman penny.
See (Matthew 18:28)....
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Luke 15:8
The Search of Love.
Three parables stand together in this chapter. The occasion of all is
one and the same the murmuring of scribes and Pharisees against the
Saviour, who would eat with sin...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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_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...
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THE LOST COIN
What woman having ten pieces of silver, if she lose one piece, doth
not light a lamp, and sweep the house, and seek diligently until she
find it? Luke 15:8.
Are you clever at finding t...
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LUKE—NOTE ON LUKE 15:8 TEN SILVER COINS. Perhaps about 10 denarii,
or 10 days’ wages for a laborer.
⇐...
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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...
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_Either that woman having ten pieces of silver_, &c. "Sweep," or as
the Arabic renders it, "cleanse;" not "overturn," as some read with S.
Gregory.
The "piece of silver," or drachma, was a coin weighi...
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_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...
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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,...
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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...
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Ephesians 2:17; Ezekiel 34:12; John 10:16; John 11:52; Luke 19:10...
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Pieces of silver [δ ρ α χ μ α ς]. Used by Luke only. A coin
worth about eighteen cents, commonly with the image of an owl, a
tortoise, or a head of Pallas. As a weight, 65. 5 grains. A common
weight i...
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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...
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The scope of this parable is the same with the former.
1. To express the joy that is found with God and his holy angels, at
the recovery and conversion of. notorious sinner.
2. To justify Christ in c...