Avenge me] better, 'Give me justice against my adversary.' Her 'adversary' was probably a rich neighbour, who, taking advantage of the death of her husband, had stolen her land. The offence of violently appropriating the property of widows and orphans is often alluded to in the OT., and forbidden with threats of divine vengeance (Exodus 22:22, etc.).
Verse Luke 18:3. _AVENGE ME OF MINE ADVERSARY._] The original, εκδικησον με απο του αντιδικου μου, had better be translated, _Do me justice_ _against_, or _vindicate me from, my adversary_. If the wo...
A WIDOW - This is a circumstance that gives increasing interest to the parable. Judges were bound to show special attention to widows, Isaiah 1:17; Jeremiah 22:3. The reason of this was that they were...
CHAPTER 18 _ 1. The Unjust Judge and the Avenging of His Elect. (Luke 18:1)_ 2. The Parable of the Pharisee and the Publican. (Luke 18:9) 3. The Little Children and the Required Lowliness. (Luke 18...
PARABLE OF THE UNRIGHTEOUS JUDGE (Lk. only). There is a connexion with the preceding sayings; the Advent may be delayed, yet the disciples should incessantly pray for it it will surely come. The parab...
UNWEARIED IN PRAYER (Luke 18:1-8)...
Jesus spoke a parable to them to show that it is necessary always to pray and not to lose heart. "There was a judge," he said, "in a town who neither feared God nor respected man. There was a widow in...
A WIDOW. were specially cared for under the law. See Exodus 22:22.Deuteronomy 10:18. Compare Isaiah 1:17; Isaiah 1:23.
_she came unto him_ Rather, SHE KEPT COMING TO HIM. The widow woman is a representative alike of the Christian Church and of the Christian soul. _Avenge me of mine adversary_ Rather, Do me justice. Th...
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...
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...
Luke 18:1-8. THE DUTY OF URGENT PRAYER. THE UNJUST JUDGE...
ΧΉΡΑ. See Exodus 22:22; Deuteronomy 10:18; Isaiah 1:17; Isaiah 1:23;...
par Ver 1. And he spoke a parable to them to this end, that men ought always to pray, and not to faint; 2. Saying, There was in a city a judge, which feared not God, neither regarded man: 3. And ther...
ΧΉΡΑ (G5503) вдова. Вдова могла пойти в суд без защитника только в отчаянной ситуации (Derrett, NTS, 188; TDNT; EDNT; NIDNTT; NDIEC, 3:20). ΉΡΧΕΤΟ _impf. ind. med. (dep.) от_ ΈΡΧΟΜΑΙ (G2064) приходит...
AVENGE ME, &C.— _Do me justice upon mine adversary._ Heylin, Doddridge, &c. This is the undoubted import of the original phrase; and care should be taken in every version of it to express it so, as no...
BUTLER'S COMMENTS SECTION 1 Pessimism (Luke 18:1-8) 18 And he told them a parable, to the effect that they ought always to pray and not lose heart. 2He said, In a certain city there was a judge who...
And there was a widow in that city; and she came unto him, saying, Avenge me of mine adversary. AND THERE WAS A WIDOW IN THAT CITY - weak, desolate, defenseless. Compare 1 Timothy 5:5, a verse evid...
22-25 Compare Luk_5:35; Mat_24:23-27; Mar_13:21-23; Joh_13:33. 25 Compare Luk_9:22. 26-27 Compare Mat_24:37-39; Gen. 7. 26 The unexpected suddenness of the coming of the Son of Mankind is further en...
LUKE’S GOOD NEWS LUKE _HILDA BRIGHT_ CHAPTER 18 TWO *PARABLES ABOUT PRAYER 18:1-14 1 THE WIDOW AND THE JUDGE 18:1-8 V1 Jesus told his *disciples a *parable. It showed that they should continue...
THERE WAS A WIDOW IN THAT CITY. — The neglect of the cause of the widow had always been noted by Lawgiver and Prophet — and it was one of the notes of a high ethical standard in both — as the extremes...
Luke 18:1 CHAPTER 11 CONCERNING PRAYER. WHEN the Greeks called man ό ανθρωπος, or the "uplooking one," they did but crystallize in a word what is a universal fact, the religious instinct of humanit...
_The unjust judge_, in Lk. only....
_The parable_. τὸν Θεόν, etc.: a proverbial description for a thoroughly unprincipled man (examples from classics in Wetstein). ἐντρεπόμενος, having respect for, with accusative, as in late Greek; in...
χήρα, a widow, such a suppliant tests a man's character. Her weakness appeals to a generous, noble nature, and is taken advantage of by an ignoble. ἤρχετο, presumably used in a frequentative sense = _...
THE LESSON FOR DARK DAYS Luke 18:1-8 There are three phases in our Lord's teaching about prayer-that of Matthew 6:1-34; Luke 18:1-43, and the words of John 14:1-31; John 15:1-27. In Luke 18:1-8 He e...
Two parables on prayer are here given. The first insists on its necessity as an alternative to fainting. The second reveals the secrets of prevailing prayer, namely, humility and a deep sense of need....
_Avenge me; i.e. do me justice. It is a Hebraism. (Witham)_...
CHAPTER 15 THE UNJUST JUDGE AND THE INDEFATIGABLE WIDOW Luke 18:1-8. This paragraph on the Lord's second coming begins with the twenty-second verse of the seventeenth chapter, and runs through the ei...
3 _d. Luke 18:1-8_. _The Widow and the Unjust Judge._ This parable is peculiar to Luke. The formula ἔλεγε δὲ καί, “Furthermore, hear this also,” announces it as the conclusion of the whole discourse...
(1) And he spake a parable unto them to this end, that men ought always to pray, and not to faint; (2) Saying, There was in a city a judge, which feared not God, neither regarded man: (3) And there wa...
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...
Grace is the spring of the Christian's walk, and furnishes directions for it. He cannot with impunity (chapter 17) despise the weak. He must not be weary of pardoning his brother. If he have faith but...
AND THERE WAS A WIDOW IN THAT CITY,.... Poor and helpless, and none among men to counsel, direct, and assist her, and take her part: now as in the accommodation of this parable, the elect of God answe...
And there was a widow in that city; and she came unto him, saying, Avenge me of mine adversary. Ver. 3. _Avenge me of mine adversary_] A downright request, without either logic or rhetoric to set it...
_There was in a city a judge, which feared not God_, &c. This magistrate, being governed by atheistical principles, had no inducement from religion to do justice; at the same time, being very powerful...
AVENGE ME OF MINE ADVERSARY; by attending to my suit, and compelling him to do me justice....
THE IMPORTUNATE WIDOW. The unjust judge:...
AND THERE WAS A WIDOW IN THAT CITY; AND SHE CAME UNTO HIM, SAYING, AVENGE ME OF MINE ADVERSARY....
GRACE PRODUCING PERSISTENT PRAYER (vs.1-8) This section connects with the subjects of chapter 17. We have seen in the four sections of that chapter that the gospel of grace produces in the believer...
1-8 All God's people are praying people. Here earnest steadiness in prayer for spiritual mercies is taught. The widow's earnestness prevailed even with the unjust judge: she might fear lest it should...
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Cyprian Epistle VII if only our prayers, our groanings, and our tears, knock at the door; and with these we must be urgent and persevering, even although prayer be offered with one mind.[8]...
Luke 18:3 Now G1161 was G2258 (G5713) widow G5503 in G1722 that G1565 city G4172 and G2532 came...
“And there was a widow in that city, and she came to him often, saying, ‘Give me justice against my adversary.' ” In contrast with the judge was a widow. She was at the opposite extreme, powerless, h...
THE PARABLE OF THE UNRIGHTEOUS JUDGE (18:1-8). As Luke 18:8 b makes clear, this parable looks directly back to Jesus' prophecy which describes Himself as coming as the Son of Man in Luke 17:24. It is...
Luke 18:3. A WIDOW IN THAT CITY. The Old Testament specially demanded judicial protection for widows. The suitor may represent the _church._ AVENGE ME OF MY ADVERSARY. The justice of her cause is imp...
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...
CONNECTION. This section belongs to the same period as the preceding one; the first parable has a close connection of thought with the predictions concerning the coming of the Son of man, while the se...
CAME OFT (ηρχετο). Imperfect tense denotes repetitions, no adverb for "oft" in the Greek.AVENGE ME OF (εκδικησον με απο). A late verb for doing justice, protecting one from another (note both εκ...
Luke 18:3 The Church's Widowhood. That the Church is, nay _must be,_in a state of widowhood appears from such things as these: I. The Father's purpose concerning her. That purpose has great things i...
Luke 18:1. And he spake a parable unto them to this end, that men ought always to pray, and not to faint; saying, There was in a city a judge, which feared not God, neither regarded man: and there was...
Luke 18:1. _And he spake a parable unto them to this end, that men ought always to pray, and not to faint;_ «Not to faint» in their expectation of answers to their supplications, and therefore give u...
Luke 18:1. _And he spake a parable unto them to this end, that men ought always to pray, and not to faint;_ An old writer says that many of Christ's parables need a key to unlock them. Here, the key...
Luke 18:1. _And he spake a parable unto them to this end, that men ought always to pray, and not to faint;_ Especially, not to faint in prayer, not to become disheartened, or weary, even if their pra...
CONTENTS: Parable of the unjust judge. Parable of Pharisee and publican. Little children blessed. Rich young ruler. Death and resurrection foretold. Blind man healed near Jericho. CHARACTERS: God, Je...
Luke 18:1. _Men ought always to pray, and not to faint._ We have continual wants, and God is always ready to hear. And as we must always be thinking of good or of evil, it is best to set the Lord alwa...
THERE WAS A JUDGE. Judges in the East were notorious for being dishonest and taking bribes. AND THERE WAS A WIDOW. In the East, a widow was almost totally helpless, unless she had powerful friends. Th...
_Men ought always to pray, and not to faint_ THE STRANGE WEAPON-ALL-PRAYER While Christian was in the Palace Beautiful, they showed him all the remarkable objects in the armory, from the ox-goad of...
LUKE—NOTE ON LUKE 18:1 This parable consists of a “lesser to greater” argument (see note on 11:11–13). ⇐...
CHAPTER 18 VER. 1. _He spake a parable unto them to the end that._ Christ had said, at the end of the last chapter, that the Apostles and the faithful should suffer persecutions, in which they should...
_And there was a widow in that city._ Avenge me, that is, vindicate my right against my oppressor, and free my innocence; righteousness, substance, and character, which are brought to trial by my enem...
_CRITICAL NOTES_ Luke 18:1 AND HE SPAKE A PARABLE.—This parable is closely connected with the preceding discourse about the second coming of Christ. The widow is the Church; the judge is God, who long...
EXPOSITION LUKE 18:1 _The Lord speaks the two parables on prayer_—_the importunate widow, and the Pharisee and publican._ LUKE 18:1 AND HE SPAKE A PARABLE UNTO THEM TO THIS END, THAT MEN OUGHT ALW...
Shall we turn tonight to Luke, chapter 18. Luke tells us that Jesus now spoke a parable to them to this end (Luke 18:1), In other words, the purpose of the parable was to encourage people to pray an...
2 Samuel 14:5; Deuteronomy 27:19; Isaiah 1:17; Isaiah 1:21; Jer
Avenge [ε κ δ ι κ η σ ο ν]. The word is too strong. It means do me justice. See on Romans 12:19....