Luke 18:7

Luke 18:7. And shall not God, etc. Much more then, since God is not an unjust judge, since the widow is not a forsaken one, but his elect, will He hear importunate prayer. While this is applicable in a certain measure to every individual Christian, and to all bodies of Christians in every age, the main application is to the elect as a collective body, to the final release from her days of sorrow at the return of the Lord.

Who cry to him day and night. An exhortation to importunate prayer, as well as a prediction that God's elect will not fail to offer it.

Though he is long-suffering in their behalf. God is in general long-suffering, but this is inappropriate here. ‘That He is long-suffering to His people is implied in the first part of the verse. The best sense seems to be: ‘though He is long-suffering,' i.e., delays the vengeance just spoken of, ‘on their behalf,' or ‘over them,' either ‘on their case,' or ‘on their account.' The view that this is a separate question: Is He wont to delay with respect to them and their requests? seems to be opposed to the whole course of the parable. Delay may be ‘on their behalf,' and the proper answer.