In your patience possess ye your souls.— "Keep the government of your own spirits through grace in these awful scenes, which will bear down so many others; and you will secure the most valuable self-enjoyment, as well as be able most prudently to guard against the dangers which will surround you." See the Inferences.
LUKE 21:19 kth,sasqe {C} The aorist imperative, which is attested by a D K L W X D Y ¦1 _al,_ seems to be slightly preferable, for copyists would have perhaps been likely to conform it to the future...
Verse Luke 21:19. _IN YOUR PATIENCE_] Rather, _your perseverance_, your faithful continuance in my word and doctrine. _Ye will preserve_ _your souls_. Ye shall escape the Roman sword, and not one of...
The account of the destruction of Jerusalem contained in this chapter has been fully considered in the notes at Matthew 24. All that will be necessary here will be an explanation of a few words that d...
CHAPTER 21 _ 1. The Widow's Mite. (Luke 21:1)_ 2. The Destruction of the Temple Predicted. (Luke 21:5) 3. The Disciple's Question Concerning the Future. (Luke 21:7) 4. Things to Come. ...
THE ESCHATOLOGICAL DISCOURSE (Mark 13*, Matthew 24*). Lk. follows Mk., though with certain modifications and amplifications. In Mt., Mk. is blended with Q, but Lk. has already used the Q material in c...
THE PRECIOUS GIFT (Luke 21:1-4)...
When some were speaking about the Temple, how it was adorned with lovely stones and offerings, Jesus said, "As for these things at which you are looking--days will come in which not one stone here wil...
PATIENCE. patient endurance. POSSESS YE. ye shall possess. Occurs only here, and Luke 18:12.Matthew 10:9; Acts 1:18; Acts 8:20;...
_In your patience possess ye your souls_ Rather, with the better reading, BY YOUR PATIENCE YE SHALL GAIN YOUR SOULS _OR_ LIVES. Mark 13:13. The need of patience and endurance to the end is very promin...
ΚΤΉΣΑΣΘΕ is the reading of אDL Elz. and Ti[357] κτήσεσθε is read by AB La[358] W. H[359] [357] Ti. Tischendorf. [358] La. Lachmann. [359] W. H. Westcott and Hort. 19. ἘΝ ΤΗ͂Ι ὙΠΟΜΟΝΗ͂Ι ὙΜΩ͂Ν ΚΤΉΣΑΣΘΕ...
SIGNS OF THE END...
Ver 12. But before all these, they shall lay their hands on you, and persecute you, delivering you up to the synagogues, and into prisons, being brought before kings and rulers for my name's sake. 13....
ΎΠΟΜΟΝΉ _dat. sing. от_ ΎΠΟΜΟΝΉ (G5281) _букв._ нахождение под чем-л.; терпение, стойкость, храброе и постоянное упорство с надеждой на перемены к лучшему; активное противостояние злу и терпеливое под...
DISCOURSE: 1571 ENCOURAGEMENT TO BEAR PERSECUTION Luke 21:17. _Ye shall be hated of all men for my name’s sake. But there shall not an hair of your head perish. In your patience possess ye your souls...
BUTLER'S COMMENTS SECTION 2 Preliminary Signs of Destruction (Luke 21:5-19) 5And as some spoke of the temple, how it was adorned with noble stones and offerings, he said, 6As for these things which...
APPLEBURY'S COMMENTS _Sufferings at the Destruction of Jerusalem Scripture_ Luke 21:10-19 Then said he unto them, Nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom; 11 and there shall be...
And as some spake of the temple, how it was adorned with goodly stones and gifts, he said, Far the exposition, see the notes at Mark 13:1....
8-7 Compare Mat_24:1-3; Mar_13:1-4; Mic_3:12. 6 The present interval being an absolute secret, we must banish it from our view entirely when considering the prophetic forecast here given. It is contai...
21:19 souls. (b-7) Or 'possess your souls.' In the first sense, that of the text, it is the same thought as Matthew 24:13 ; Luke 17:33 ; Matthew 16:25 ;...
THE WIDOW'S MITE. PROPHECY OF THE FALL OF JERUSALEM AND THE SECOND ADVENT 1-4. The widow's mite (Mark 12:41). See on Mk....
GREAT PROPHECY OF THE FALL OF JERUSALEM AND THE SECOND ADVENT (Matthew 24:1; Mark 13:1). See on Mt. St. Luke distinguishes these two events more clearly than the other evangelists (Luke 21:24). He als...
LUKE’S GOOD NEWS LUKE _HILDA BRIGHT_ CHAPTER 21 THE WIDOW’S *OFFERING 21:1-4 V1 Jesus looked up and watched the rich men. They dropped their money into the boxes in the *Temple. V2 He also saw a...
IN YOUR PATIENCE POSSESS YE YOUR SOULS. — Better, _By your endurance gain ye your lives._ The verb, unless used in the perfect tense, always involves the idea of “acquiring” rather than “possessing,”...
(7-19) MASTER, BUT WHEN SHALL THESE THINGS BE? — See Notes on Matthew 24:3; Mark 13:3. St. Luke omits the Mount of Olives as being the scene of the question and the prophecy, and the names of the ques...
_Signs earlier still_ (Matthew 24:9-14; Mark 13:9-13)....
κτήσεσθε or κτήσασθε, ye shall win, or win ye; sense the same. Similar various readings in Romans 5:1, ἔχωμεν or ἔχομεν....
DAYS THAT TRY MEN'S SOULS Luke 21:5-19 When we ask speculative questions, the Master bids us take heed to _ourselves._ His predictions in this passage were literally fulfilled in the events which cul...
Here we have another illustration of the fact that nothing could escape the Master's vigilance. Of the gifts being cast into the treasury He was the true Appraiser. He saw the widow as she cast in her...
In your patience (d) possess ye your souls. (d) Though you are surrounded on all sides with many miseries, yet nonetheless be valiant and courageous, and bear out these things bravely....
_In your patience, &c. We then truly possess our souls, when we live in all things perfect, and from the citadel of virtue command and control all the motions of the mind and heart. (St. Gregory, Mag....
CHAPTER 20 COMING OF THE LORD Matthew 24; Matthew 25; Mark 13; Luke 21. It is now in the afternoon, on Wednesday, preceding the arrest of our Savior about midnight the ensuin
2. _The Discourse: Luke 21:8-36_. The four points treated by Jesus are: 1 _st._ The apparent signs, which must not be mistaken for true signs (Luke 21:8-19); 2 _d._ The true sign, and the destruction...
THIRD CYCLE: THE PROPHECY OF THE DESTRUCTION OF JERUSALEM, LUKE 21:5-38. This piece contains a question put by the disciples (Luke 21:5-7), the discourse of Jesus in answer to their question (Luke 21:...
_The Signs which are not such._ “ _But He said, Take heed that ye be not deceived; for many shall come in my name, saying, I am he, and the time draweth near. Go ye not therefore after them._ 9. _And...
And he said, Take heed that ye be not deceived: for many shall come in my name, saying, I am Christ; and the time draweth near: go ye not therefore after them. But when ye shall hear of wars and commo...
The last chapter gave in the judgment of present things, another world and eternal things in good and evil, the Lord's instruction for the disciples after the dealings of grace in Luke 15:1-32, and th...
_PATIENCE_ ‘In your patience possess ye your souls.’ Luke 21:19 I. PATIENCE NEVER SEEMS TO BE AN HEROIC REMEDY, least of all in the face of action so overwhelming and scenes so terrific as those w...
Luke 21:19._In your patience. _Here Christ enjoins on his followers a different method of defending their life from what is dictated by carnal reason. For naturally every man desires to place his life...
The Lord's discourse in chapter 21 displays the character of the Gospel in a peculiar manner. The spirit of grace, in contrast with the Judaic spirit, is seen in the account of the poor widow's offeri...
IN YOUR PATIENCE, POSSESS YE YOUR SOULS. By patiently bearing all afflictions, reproaches, indignities, and persecutions, enjoy yourselves; let nothing disturb or distress you; possess that peace and...
In your patience possess ye your souls. Ver. 19. _In your patience possess_] That is, enjoy yourselves, however the world goes with you. He that cannot have patience had need made up his pack and get...
_It shall turn to you for a testimony_ The persecutions which you suffer shall become a glorious proof both of your innocence and of their guilt in rejecting the gospel. _Settle it, therefore, in your...
Destruction of Jerusalem. Matthew 24:1-22. For the principles on which this prophecy is to be interpreted, and the double reference contained in it to the destruction of Jerusalem and the end of the w...
IN YOUR PATIENCE POSSESS YE YOUR SOULS; the word "possess" is here to be taken in the sense of gaining or saving. The whole verse might be rendered, By your endurance save ye your souls; the same as,...
In your patience possess ye your souls. Here are some of the signs which concern the disciples of Christ in the interval between His ascension and the destruction of Jerusalem in particular, but which...
Earlier signs:...
THE WIDOW'S TWO MITES (vs.1-4) The first four verses are a continuation of the sublect of Chapter 20. If the scribes had no regard for widows, God takes full account of them. Rich men may donate larg...
5-28 With much curiosity those about Christ ask as to the time when the great desolation should be. He answers with clearness and fulness, as far as was necessary to teach them their duty; for all kn...
Patience is either passive, seen in a quiet, free, and courageous suffering those evils which God will please in his providence to order us for our portion; or active, seen in a quiet believing, waiti...
Tertullian Against Marcion Book IV says He, "ye shall yourselves be saved."[1554] Constitutions of the Holy Apostles Book V Wherefore He exhorts us, saying: "In your patience possess ye your souls....
Luke 21:19 By G1722 your G5216 patience G5281 possess G2932 (G5663) your G5216 souls G5590...
THE COMING DESTRUCTION OF THE TEMPLE (21:5-24). The destruction of Jerusalem and the Temple in 70 AD is now for us a simple fact of history of which today many are unaware, and most see it as almost a...
PROPHECY CONCERNING THE DESTRUCTION OF THE TEMPLE, THE SCATTERING OF THE JEWS, AND THE COMING OF THE SON OF MAN (21:5-36). This passage connects with the last in that the disciples begin to discuss th...
“In your patience endurance you will win your souls.” Note how in the chiasmus this statement parallels the earlier “It will turn out to you for a testimony” (Luke 21:13). By their patient endurance a...
THE COMING MINISTRY OF THE APOSTLES AND ITS CONSEQUENCES (21:12-19). Meanwhile, while all these things are going on, the Apostles and those who follow them must be involved in testimony to the world,...
Luke 21:19. IN YOUR PATIENCE, or ‘stedfastness,' YE SHALL WIN YOUR SOULS, or ‘lives.' In the endurance of these predicted afflictions they should gain, or come into the possession of, their true life....
Luke 21:12-19. PERSECUTION PREDICTED. See on Matthew 24:9-14; Mark 13:9-13. Luke's account shows great independence in this paragraph....
The discourse of our Lord about the last times, is here connected most closely with the prediction of the destruction of the temple (Luke 21:5-6). There is no allusion to the mount of Olives, where, a...
YE SHALL WIN (κτησεσθε). Future middle of κταομα, to acquire. They will win their souls even if death does come....
Luke 21:19 Or, as it may rather be termed, "By your endurance ye shall gain possession of your lives, ye shall secure yourselves from perils of bodily harm and death." It is also, "Ye shall save your...
Luke 21:1. And he looked up, and saw the rich men casting their gifts into the treasury. And he saw also a certain poor widow casting in thither two mites. And he said, Of a truth I say unto you, that...
CONTENTS: The widow's mite. Discourse on the course of the age and return of the Lord. CHARACTERS: Jesus, widow, disciples. CONCLUSION: As the time draws near when the Kingdom of God shall be fully e...
Luke 21:5. _Some spake of the temple, how it was adorned with goodly stones and gifts._ This conversation occurred as they were going out of the temple. Mark 13:1. On mount Olivet the Lord delivered t...
WHEN WILL THIS BE? This parallels _Matthew 24._ See notes on each section at the reference in _Matthew 18_. BUT NOT A SINGLE HAIR FROM YOUR HEADS WILL BE LOST. Every Christian escaped from Jerusalem b...
_Master, but when shall these things be?_ JUDAISM OVERTHROWN I. THE MASTER’S WARNING CONCERNING FALSE CHRISTS. 1. Many will assume the daring _role. _ (1) Some saying, “I am Christ.” (2) Others s...
LUKE—NOTE ON LUKE 21:19 GAIN YOUR LIVES. That is, will be enabled to share in the full benefits of final salvation in the end times; see Luke 9:24.
LUKE—NOTE ON LUKE 21:5 Jesus foretells the destruction of the temple and Jerusalem (vv. Luke 21:5) and the coming of the Son of Man (vv....
JESUS TELLS ABOUT THE FUTURE MATTHEW 24:1-28; MARK 13:1-23; LUKE 21:5-24; MATTHEW 24:1 And Jesus went out, and departed from the temple
CHAPTER 21 VER. 18. _But there shall not an hair of your head perish._ "Because," says S. Gregory, "what was said about death was hard, comfort is added at once, from the joy of the resurrection, when...
_In your patience possess ye your souls._ Patience, therefore, is the possession of our souls. Firstly, because patience rules the soul and directs it in peace, and bends and influences it as it pleas...
_CRITICAL NOTES_ Luke 21:7. AND THEY ASKED HIM.—St. Mark tells us (Luke 13:3) that the questioners were the apostles Peter, John, James and Andrew. The discourse that follows is related by the two fir...
EXPOSITION LUKE 21:1 _The_ _widow_'_s mite. _We find this little sketch only here and in St. Mark (Mark 12:41). The Master was sitting—resting, probably, after the effort of the great denunciation of...
And he looked up, and he saw the rich men casting their gifts into the treasury. And he saw also a certain poor widow casting in thither two mites (Luke 21:1-2). A mite was one-sixteenth of a penny. I...
1 Thessalonians 1:3; 2 Thessalonians 3:5; Hebrews 10:36; Hebrews 6:11;...
Possess ye [κ τ η σ ε σ θ ε]. Wrong. See on ch. Luke 18:12. Rev. rightly, ye shall win. 20 - 36. Compare Matthew 24:15-42.Mark 13:14-37....
In your patience possess ye your souls — Be calm and serene, masters of yourselves, and superior to all irrational and disquieting passions. By keeping the government of your spirits, you will both av...