Luke 14:5. If a son or an ox. The weight of authority is for the reading ‘a son.' The thought then is: If on the Sabbath you help what is your own, then help others (love thy neighbor as thyself). The common reading; ‘an ass or an ox,' suggests the same argument as in chap. Luke 13:15-16; if you would do this for a dumb animal, much more for a human being.

Fallen into a well. As in chap. Luke 13:15-16, we find here an analogy between the case cited and the condition of the dropsical man; the danger in the well was that of drowning.

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Old Testament