Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes
Luke 11:36
no. Greek. me. App-105.
the bright shining of. candle. the lamp with its brilliance.
doth give thee light. may light thee. Greek. photizo. Compare App-130.
no. Greek. me. App-105.
the bright shining of. candle. the lamp with its brilliance.
doth give thee light. may light thee. Greek. photizo. Compare App-130.
Verse Luke 11:36. _THE WHOLE SHALL BE FULL OF LIGHT_] Or, _altogether_ _enlightened_; i.e. when the eye is perfect, it enlightens the whole body. Every object within the reach of the eye is as complet...
These verses are found in Matthew, but in a different connection. See the notes at Matthew 5:15; Matthew 6:22....
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. ...
SAYINGS ABOUT LIGHT. With Luke 11:33; cf. Luke 8:16 (= Mark 4:21; Matthew 5:15). With L
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...
TEACH US TO PRAY (Luke 11:1-4)...
_doth give thee light_ The spirit of man is the candle of the Lord. "God will light my candle," Psalms 18:28. "Thy word is a lantern unto my feet." In these words we catch an echo of those thoughts o...
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...
ΦΩΤΊΖΗΙ ΣΕ. The verse may be rendered literally, ‘If then thy body be wholly illumined … it shall be illumined wholly as when the lamp with its bright shining illumines thee.’ The spirit of man is the...
THE INWARD LIGHT...
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...
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:...
_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...
ΈΧΟΝ _praes. act. part. от_ ΈΧ (G2192) иметь, ΑΣΤΡΑΠΉ (G46) _dat. sing._ вспышка, свет. Instr. _dat._ ΈΣΤΑΙ _fut. ind. med. (dep.) от_ ΕΙΜΊ (G604). Возможно, FUT. должен воеприниматься как _imper._...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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....
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...
IF THY WHOLE BODY THEREFORE BE FULL OF LIGHT. — The statement reads at first like an identical proposition. “If thy whole body be full of light, it shall be full of light all over.” The apparent truis...
This verse is very puzzling both critically and exegetically. As it stands in T.R. (and in W.H [105]) it appears tautological (De Wette), a fault which some have tried to surmount by punctuation, and...
Luke 11:33-36 contain parabolic utterances concerning the placing of a light, and the conditions under which the eye sees the light....
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...
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...
_The whole shall be lightsome. Not only all thy body, but all about thee; all thy ways and actions. (Witham)_...
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...
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...
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...
(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...
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...
_SPIRITUAL LIGHT_ ‘If thy whole body therefore be full of light, having no part dark, the whole shall be full of light.’ Luke 11:36 We learn from these words of the Lord Jesus— I. THE IMPORTANCE O...
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....
IF THY WHOLE BODY THEREFORE BE FULL OF LIGHT,.... That is, if the whole soul, as the Ethiopic version reads, be full of Gospel light, through the illuminating influences of the blessed Spirit accompan...
If thy whole body therefore _be_ full of light, having no part dark, the whole shall be full of light, as when the bright shining of a candle doth give thee light. Ver. 36. _Having no part dark_] The...
_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...
Candle under a bushel. Matthew 5:15; Matthew 6:22-23....
IF THY WHOLE BODY-FULL OF LIGHT; a clear view of spiritual things is to the soul what sight is to the body. It enables us to see clearly and correctly all truth that relates to God and Christ. Thus th...
Parabolic warnings:...
IF THY WHOLE BODY THEREFORE BE FULL OF LIGHT, HAVING NO PART DARK, THE WHOLE SHALL BE FULL OF LIGHT, AS WHEN THE BRIGHT SHINING OF A CANDLE DOTH GIVE THEE LIGHT. These proverbial, parabolic sayings of...
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...
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...
SEE POOLE ON "LUKE 11:34...
Luke 11:36 G3767 If G1487 your G4675 whole G3650 body G4983 light G5460 having G2192 (G5723) no...
“If therefore your whole body is full of light, having no part dark, it will be wholly full of light,” But if the eye is singly on Jesus and His word, then the whole body will be full of light and the...
Luke 11:36. IF THY WHOLE BODY, etc. Van Oosterzee thus explains: ‘Only when thy body is wholly illumined, without having even an obscure corner left therein, will it become so bright and clear as if t...
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...
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...
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...
WITH ITS BRIGHT SHINING (τη αστραπη). Instrumental case, as if by a flash of lightning the light is revealed in him. See on Luke 10:18....
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
_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...
LUKE—NOTE ON LUKE 11:36 When a person is filled with the LIGHT of Christ, it will affect his or her whole being (WHOLLY BRIGHT)....
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;...
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...
_If thy whole body therefore be full of light... the whole shall be full of light._ Not the body, but the whole man and all his faculties and powers. Maldonatus. But Toletus gives a different renderin...
_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...
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...
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...
2 Corinthians 4:6; 2 Peter 3:18; 2 Timothy 3:15; Colossians 3:16;...
The bright shining of a candle [ο λ υ χ ν ο ς τ η α σ τ ρ α π η]. More correctly, as Rev., the lamp with its bright shining. jAstraph means lightning : see ch. Luke 10:18; and that is the usual meanin...
If thy whole body be full of light — If thou art filled with holy wisdom, having no part dark, giving way to no sin or folly, then that heavenly principle will, like the clear flame of a lamp in a roo...