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Verse 35. _LET YOUR LOINS_] Be active, diligent, determined ready; let
all hinderances be removed out of the way; and let the candle of the
Lord be always found burning brightly in your hand. Luke 12:...
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LET YOUR LOINS ... - This alludes to the ancient manner of dress. They
wore a long flowing robe as their outer garment. See the notes at
Matthew 5:38. When they labored, or walked, or ran, it was nece...
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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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LUKE 12:35 THREE REFERENCES TO THE PAROUSIA.
Luke 12:35 (with Luke 12:47 F.). THE NEED OF WATCHFULNESS. These
verses, like Luke 13:25,
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"Let your loins be girt and your lamps burning. Be like men who are
waiting for their master to come home from the wedding feast, so that,
when he comes and knocks, they will open to him immediately....
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THE CREED OF COURAGE AND OF TRUST (Luke 12:1-12)...
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LIGHTS. lamps. See App-130....
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_Let your loins be girded_ Without which active service is impossible
in the loose flowing dress of the East (Exodus 12:11; 1 Kings 18:46);
and spiritually, for the Christian amid worldly entanglement...
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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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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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ἜΣΤΩΣΑΝ ὙΜΩ͂Ν ΑἹ ὈΣΦΎΕΣ
ΠΕΡΙΕΖΩΣΜΈΝΑΙ. Without a girdle active service is
impossible in the loose flowing dress of the East (Exodus 12:11; 1
Kings 18:46); and spiritually, for the Christian amid world...
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Ver 35. Let your loins be girded about, and your lights burning; 36.
And you yourselves like to men that wait for their lord, when he will
return from the wedding; that when he comes and knocks, they...
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ΈΣΤΩΣΑΝ _praes. imper. act. 3 pers. pl. от_ ΕΙΜΊ (G1510).
ΌΣΦΎΣ (G3751) чресла, бедро,
ΠΕΡΙΕΖΩΣΜΈΝΑΙ _perf. pass. part. от_
ΠΕΡΙΖΏΝΝΥΜΙ (G4024) подвязывать одежды
поясом, перевязывать длинное,
доход...
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DISCOURSE: 1529
THE WATCHFUL SERVANT
Luke 12:35. Let your loins be girded about, and your lights burning;
and ye yourselves like unto men that wait for their lord, when he will
return from the wedding...
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LET YOUR LOINS BE GIRDED ABOUT— As the eastern nations wore long
garments, it was necessary that, when they had any thing to do which
required them to exert their strength or agility, they should tuck...
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BUTLER'S COMMENTS
SECTION 3
Action as Alertness (Luke 12:35-48)
35 Let your loins be girded and your lamps burning, 36and be like men
who are waiting for their master to come home from the marriage...
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Let your loins be girded about, and your lights burning;
LET YOUR LOINS BE GIRDED ABOUT - to fasten up the long outer garment,
which was always done before travel and before work (See ; ; and
compa...
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14 See Exo_2:14.
15 Compare 1Ti_6:6-10.
15 A telling truth which would do more to ameliorate the ills of
humanity than all government, were it heeded, is embodied in the
phrase, "the superfluity of...
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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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EXHORTATION TO VIGILANCE. The greater part of it appears also (and
most appropriately) in Matthew 24. The apostles and other ministers of
the word are chiefly addressed, though there is a lesson for a...
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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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LET YOUR LOINS BE GIRDED... — To “gird up the loins” was, in
Eastern habits and with Eastern garments, the received symbol of
readiness for active service (Luke 12:37; Luke 17:8; 1 Kings 18:46;...
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Luke 12:35-36 contain the germ of the parable of the _Ten Virgins_
(Matthew 25:1 f.). So De Wette, J. Weiss, Holtzmann, Schanz, etc.
ὀσφύες περιεζωσμέναι, loins girt, for service.
λύχνοι καιόμενοι, la...
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_Loins girt, lamps burning_. Connection with what goes before is not
apparent, but there is a latent affinity which makes the introduction
of this _logion_ here by Lk. or his source intelligible. The...
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EVER ON THE WATCH
Luke 12:35-48
The Lord leads our thoughts on to His advent, when He will call His
servants to account. The day may pass into the evening, the evening
into the night, and the night m...
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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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(11) Let your loins be girded about, and [your] lights burning;
(11) The life of the faithful servants of God in this world is
certainly a diligent journey, having the light of the word going
before...
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Let your loins be girded; i.e. be prepared to walk in the way of
virtue; a comparison taken from the custom of the eastern people, who
girded up their long garments, when they went about any business....
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SOLICITUDE
Luke 12:22-31. This item of our Savior's discourse is so identical
with a paragraph in His Sermon on the Mount (Matthew 6), that I
forbear quotation, the substantial repetition of the Great...
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3 _d. To the Disciples: Luke 12:22-40_. Disengagement from earthly
goods. The following exhortations suppose faith. The believer should
renounce the pursuit of earthly goods: 1. From a feeling of enti...
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_The Parable of the Master returning to his House._ “ _Let your
loins be girded about, and your lights burning;_ 36. _And ye
yourselves like unto men that wait for their lord, when he will return
from...
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(32) Fear not little flock; for it is your Father's good pleasure to
give you the kingdom. (33) Sell that ye have, and give alms: provide
yourselves bags which wax not old, a treasure in the heavens t...
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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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_IDEALS LOST AND RECOVERED_
‘Let your loins be girded about, and your lights burning: And ye
yourselves like unto men that wait for their lord, when he will return
from the wedding; that when he come...
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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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LET YOUR LOINS BE GIRDED ABOUT,.... With the girdle of truth,
Ephesians 6:14 keeping close to the doctrines of the Gospel, abiding
faithfully by them, even unto death: the allusion is either to the
ea...
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Let your loins be girded about, and _your_ lights burning;
Ver. 35. _Let your loins be girded_] It implies, 1. readiness; 2.
nimbleness, handiness, and handsomeness. A loose, discinct, and
diffluent...
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_Let your loins_, &c. Our Lord, having recommended to his disciples
disengagement of affection from the things of this world, and a due
moderation as to their esteem for, and cares about, earthly
poss...
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LET YOUR LOINS BE GIRDED; the girding up of the loins was a
preparation for action. Be ready for duty.
YOUR LIGHTS BURNING; be always watchful....
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The faithful servant. Matthew 24:42-51....
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Christian alertness:...
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LET YOUR LOINS BE GIRDED ABOUT AND YOUR LIGHTS BURNING;...
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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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22-40 Christ largely insisted upon this caution not to give way to
disquieting, perplexing cares, Matthew 6:25. The arguments here used
are for our encouragement to cast our care upon God, which is t...
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Ver. 35,36. The first words of LUKE 12:40, _Be ye therefore ready
also_, expound LUKE 12:35. In this sense we find the phrase used, 1
Kings 18:46...
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Irenaeus Against Heresies Book IV "Let your loins, therefore, be
girded about, and your lights burning, and ye like to men who wait for
their lord, when he shall return from the wedding."[566]
Irenae...
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Luke 12:35 Let G2077 your G5216 waist G3751 be G2077 (G5749) girded
G4024 (G5772) and G2532 lamps...
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WHAT THE ATTITUDE OF HIS DISCIPLES SHOULD BE (12:35-40).
The parable that follows confirms that Jesus will have been previously
laying out the background to them (we know so little of the much that
He...
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SECTION 5 (12:1-14:35).
We commence here a new section of Luke. As we shall see this section
centres around a mighty act of Jesus in delivering a woman bound by
Satan, and thus doubled up and unable t...
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“Let your loins be girded about, and your lamps burning,”
The parable begins with a description of what is required of the
Lord's servants. In modern terms we would say that they have to have
their s...
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THE FIRST PARABLE - THE SERVANTS IN READINESS (12:35-38).
In this parable Jesus is dealing with the responsibility that all who
claim to be His servants have for the whole world (the lord's house),
al...
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BE GIRDED ABOUT
(εστωσαν περιεζωσμενα). Periphrastic perfect
passive imperative third plural of the verb περιζωννυμ or
περιζωννυω (later form), an old verb, to gird around, to
fasten the garments wi...
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Luke 12:35. Let your loins be girded about, and your lights burning;
and ye yourselves like unto men that wait for their lord, when he will
return from the wedding; that when he cometh and knocketh, t...
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Luke 12:22. _And he said unto his disciples, Therefore I say unto you,
Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat; neither for the
body, what ye shall put on. The life is more than meat, and the...
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Luke 12:13. _And one of the company said unto him, Master, speak to my
brother, that he divide the inheritance with me. And he said unto him,
Man, who made me a judge or a divider over you?_
Our Lord...
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In this chapter, our Saviour dispels the fears of his disciples
concerning temporal things, and especially their fear of persecution
and their fear of want.
Luke 12:1. In the mean time, when there we...
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Luke 12:13. _And one of the company said unto him, Master, speak to my
brother, that he divide the inheritance with me, And he said unto him,
Man, who made me a judge or a divider over you?_
Our Lord...
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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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BE READY FOR WHATEVER COMES. People in the East wore long robes, which
had to be tucked under their belts to get ready to travel. See notes
on Matthew 24:42-44. AND YOUR LAMPS LIT. See notes on Matthe...
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_Men that wait for their Lord_
OF THE BELIEVER’S READINESS FOR THE COMING OF CHRIST
This readiness stands in watchfulness and fidelity.
I. WATCHFULNESS.
1. Its nature.
2. Its ground. The servant’...
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LUKE—NOTE ON LUKE 12:35 STAY DRESSED FOR ACTION (literally, “Let
your loins stay girded,” esv footnote) describes a man prepared to
run, with his long robe tucked under his belt....
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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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_CRITICAL NOTES_
Luke 12:35. LOINS GIRDED.—An allusion to the long robes of the East,
which those who wear them must bind up before they engage in any
active employment. LIGHTS BURNING.—The same less...
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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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1 Kings 18:46; 1 Peter 1:13; Ephesians 6:14; Isaiah 11:5; Isaiah 5:27
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Let your loins be girt — An allusion to the long garments, worn by
the eastern nations, which they girded or tucked up about their loins,
when they journeyed or were employed in any labour: as also to...
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The next duty Christ exhorts his disciples to, is that of watchfulness
with reference to his second coming: LET YOUR LOINS BE GIRDED, AND
YOUR LIGHTS BURNING. The words may be understood two ways, spo...