Scofield's Bible Commentary
Luke 15:8
pieces of silver
Greek, "drachma", here translated "a piece of silver", is the eighth part of an ounce, and is equal to the Roman penny.
See (Matthew 18:28).
pieces of silver
Greek, "drachma", here translated "a piece of silver", is the eighth part of an ounce, and is equal to the Roman penny.
See (Matthew 18:28).
Verse Luke 15:8. _TEN PIECES OF SILVER_] δραχμας δεκα, _ten drachmas_. I think it always best to retain the names of these ancient coins, and to state their value in English money. Every reader will...
TEN PIECES OF SILVER - In the original, ten “drachmas.” The drachma was about the value of fifteen cents, and consequently the whole sum was about a dollar and a half, or six shillings. The sum was sm...
CHAPTER 15 __ 1. The Murmuring Pharisees. (Luke 15:1) 2. The Parable of the Lost Sheep. (Luke 15:3) 3. The Parable of the Lost Coin. (Luke 15:8) 4. The Parable of the Prodigal Son and the Elder Br...
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Or, what woman who has ten silver pieces, if she loses one piece, does not light a lamp and sweep the house and search carefully until she finds it? And when she has found it she calls together her fr...
THE SHEPHERD'S JOY (Luke 15:1-7)...
EITHER. This parable is recorded only in Luke. WOMAN. Here representing the Holy Spirit. TEN. See the Structures of Luke 15:2 in the Luke book comments. PIECES OF SILVER. Greek _drachmas._ Occurs 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...
_having ten pieces of silver_ Ten drachmas. This parable is peculiar to St Luke. The Greek drachma (about] _od.)_corresponds to the Latin denarius. Each represented a day's wages, and may be roughly r...
THE LOST SHEEP...
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...
ΔΡΑΧΜᾺΣ ἜΧΟΥΣΑ ΔΈΚΑ. Ten drachmas. This parable is peculiar to St Luke. The Greek drachma (about 10_d._) corresponds to the Latin denarius. Each represented a day’s wages, and may be roughly rendered...
VER 8. EITHER WHAT WOMAN HAVING TEN PIECES OF SILVER, IF SHE LOSE ONE PIECE, DOES NOT LIGHT A CANDLE, AND SWEEP THE HOUSE, AND SEEK DILIGENTLY TILL SHE FIND IT? 9. AND WHEN SHE HAS FOUND IT, SHE CALLS...
ΔΡΑΧΜΆΣ _асс. pl. от_ ΔΡΑΧΜΉ (G1406) драхма. Греческая серебряная монета, равная примерно 18 или 19 центам. Это была стоимость одной овцы или одна пятая стоимости вола (BAGD; EDNT; DJG, 805; Fitzmyer,...
DISCOURSE: 1543 THE LOST PIECE OF SILVER Luke 15:8. What woman having ten pieces of silver, if she lose one piece, doth not light a candle, and sweep the house, and seek diligently till she find it? A...
BUTLER'S COMMENTS SECTION 2 Lost Silver (Luke 15:8-10) 8 Or what woman, having ten silver coins, if she loses one coin, does not light a lamp and sweep the house and seek diligently until she finds...
Either what woman having ten pieces of silver, if she lose one piece, doth not light a candle, and sweep the house, and seek diligently till she find it? EITHER WHAT WOMAN, HAVING TEN PIECES OF SI...
34-35 Compare Mat_5:13; Mar_9:50. 1 Compare Luk_7:34-35; Mat_9:10-13. 2 Our Lord's liking for sinners led the proud, self-righteous Pharisees and scribes to utter a most precious truth, though they,...
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PIECES] Gk. _drachma_, a coin equivalent in value to the Roman _denarius_ (Matthew 18:28)....
THE LOST COIN (peculiar to Lk). The last parable set forth the work of Christ in seeking and reclaiming the lost, this one sets forth that of the Church. The woman is the Church; the ten pieces of sil...
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Jesus told this story of a woman who had lost one of her 10 silver coins. Each of these coins was worth about a day’s pay for a worker. The 10 coins may be all that the poor woman owned. The loss of o...
EITHER WHAT WOMAN HAVING TEN PIECES OF SILVER. — The main lesson of the parable that thus opens is, of course, identical with that of the Lost Sheep. We are justified, however, in assuming that the sp...
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ἅπτει λ., lights a lamp. The verb used in this sense in N.T. only in Lk. No windows in the dwellings of the poor: a lamp must be lighted for the search, unless indeed there be one always burning on th...
SEEKING AND FINDING THE LOST Luke 15:1-10 They that have left the fold in which they were nurtured in early life, and have gone over bleak mountains and through tangled brakes, find themselves in thi...
Our Lord's attitude toward the sinning multitudes aroused the hostility of the Pharisees, and to them principally He uttered the great discourse of this chapter, consisting of a threefold parable. In...
In the preceding parable, the race of mankind is compared to a lost sheep, to teach us that we are the creatures of the most high God, who made us, and not we ourselves, of whose pasture we are the sh...
THE LOST MONEY Luke 15:8-10. “ _A certain woman having ten drachmae_, _if she may lose one drachma_, _does she not light a candle and sweep the house and seek diligently until she may find it_? _And h...
_The Lost Drachma._ The anxiety of the woman to find her lost piece of money certainly does not proceed from a feeling of pity; it is _self-interest_ which leads her to act. She had painfully earned i...
2 _d. Luke 15:3-10_. The two parables of the _lost sheep_ and of the _lost drachma_, as such pairs of parables always do, present the same idea, but in two different aspects. The idea common to both i...
Either what woman having ten pieces of silver, if she lose one piece, doth not light a candle, and sweep the house, and seek diligently till she find it? And when she hath found it, she calleth her fr...
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...
_LOST AND FOUND_ ‘Rejoice with me; for I have found my sheep … [and] the piece which I had lost.’ Luke 15:6 We have here two beautiful pictures. Though the lesson to be learned from each is the sam...
_THE LOST COIN_ ‘Either what woman having ten pieces of silver, if she lose one piece, doth not light a candle, and sweep the house, and seek diligently till she find it.’ Luke 15:8 Dust flying, co...
Having thus unfolded the difference in character between the two dispensations, and the circumstances of the transition from the one to the other, the Lord turns (chapter 15) to higher principles the...
EITHER WHAT WOMAN, HAVING TEN PIECES OF SILVER,.... Or "drachmas": a "drachma" was the fourth part of a shekel, and of the same value with a Roman penny; and was worth of our money, seven pence half p...
Either what woman having ten pieces of silver, if she lose one piece, doth not light a candle, and sweep the house, and seek diligently till she find _it_ ? Ver. 8. _If she lose once piece_] One Test...
_Either what woman_ As if he had said, To illustrate the matter by another obvious similitude, that it may yet more powerfully strike your minds, _what woman, having ten pieces of silver_ Though each...
This parable is another illustration of the same truth....
The parable of the lost piece of silver:...
EITHER WHAT WOMAN HAVING TEN PIECES OF SILVER, IF SHE LOSE ONE PIECE, DOTH NOT LIGHT A CANDLE, AND SWEEP THE HOUSE, AND SEEK DILIGENTLY TILL SHE FIND IT?...
SEEKING THE LOST SHEEP (vs.3-7) Though discipleship to Christ is a wonderful privilege, yet man would never choose a path of true discipleship if God did not seek him first. In this chapter we see t...
PIECES OF SILVER: Drachma here translated a piece of silver, is the eighth part of an ounce, which cometh to seven pence half penny, and is equal to the Roman penny, Matthew 18:28...
1-10 The parable of the lost sheep is very applicable to the great work of man's redemption. The lost sheep represents the sinner as departed from God, and exposed to certain ruin if not brought back...
Ver. 8-10. This parable (as appeareth by the conclusion of it) is of the same import with the other, and needs no further explication. By both these parables our blessed Lord lets the Pharisees know t...
Irenaeus Against Heresies Book I In the same way they oracularly declare, that one power having departed also from the Duodecad, has perished; and this was represented by the woman who lost the drach...
Luke 15:8 Or G2228 what G5101 woman G1135 having G2192 (G5723) ten G1176 coins G1406 if G1437 loses...
THE PARABLES OF THE SEEKING SHEPHERD AND THE LOST COIN (15:1-10). In these twin parables Jesus illustrates Heaven's concern over all lost persons, whoever they may be, and of whatever class they be, a...
MEN MUST LIVE IN THE LIGHT OF THE COMING OF THE SON OF MAN IN HIS GLORY (15:1-19:28). Having established in Section 1 that Jesus was born in Bethlehem in the city of David where He was proclaimed ‘Sav...
THREE PARABLES DEALING WITH THE SEEKING AND SAVING OF THE LOST (15:1-32). It will have been noted how great a concentration there is in this section on preparing for the eternal future, and on the Ki...
“Or what woman, having ten pieces of silver (ten drachmae), if she lose one piece (drachma), does not light a lamp, and sweep the house, and seek diligently until she find it?” In this case the woman...
THE WOMAN AND THE LOST COIN (15:8-10). As the analysis above shows this is in continuity with the previous parable and brings out Luke's tendency to combine parables together and to refer to both men...
Luke 15:8. HAVING TEN PIECES OF SILVER. The women of Nazareth still wear around the forehead and face a roll of silver coins, called ‘semedi;' to which the Saviour here alludes. The coins spoken of ar...
CONNECTION. We have a single discourse, consisting mainly of parables, from chap. Luke 15:1 to chap. Luke 17:10. It was delivered during the journey from Perea to Jericho, and occasioned by the fact t...
Luke 15:8-10. THE PARABLE OF THE LOST PIECE OR MONEY. Peculiar to Luke....
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...
Luke 15:7. AN HUNDRED MEASURES. The Hebrew measure (‘cor') is here spoken of, equal to ten ephahs. WRITE EIGHTY. The variation in the amount deducted is without any special meaning. Still we may find...
Luke 15:8. AND HIS LORD, _i.e.,_ the lord of the steward, of course, not the Lord Jesus. THE UNJUST STEWARD, lit., ‘the steward of unrighteousness.' This phrase stamps the conduct of the steward as i...
TEN PIECES OF SILVER (δραχμας δεκα). The only instance in the N.T. of this old word for a coin of 65.5 grains about the value of the common δηναριυς (about eighteen cents), a quarter of a Jewish she...
Luke 15:8 The Search of Love. Three parables stand together in this chapter. The occasion of all is one and the same the murmuring of scribes and Pharisees against the Saviour, who would eat with sin...
Luke 15:8 The piece of silver whatever it was was great to the owner. And here lies the point in the analogy. A soul, an individual creature, an atom in God's universe, may be in itself a very insigni...
This is a chapter that needs no explanation; it carries its key within itself, and the experience of every child of God is the best exposition of it. The three parables recorded here set forth the wor...
We have read this chapter together many times; possibly some of us have read it hundreds of times; yet whenever we read it, we always find something fresh in it. It is ever bright and sparkling, full...
Luke 15:1. _Then drew near unto him all the publicans and sinners for to hear him._ However sunken they might be, they knew their best Friend; they recognized their Benefactor, so they gathered aroun...
CONTENTS: Parables of the lost sheep, lost coin and lost son. CHARACTERS: Jesus, Pharisees, scribes. CONCLUSION: God has a particular care over backsliding sinners (Isr. in this case) and follows th...
Luke 15:1. _Then drew near all the publicans and sinners to hear him._ The pharisees were so intoxicated with ideas of their own righteousness, as to regard all such characters as excluded from the co...
OR SUPPOSE A WOMAN WHO HAS TEN SILVER COINS. It is the custom in the East to have a string of coins for a bracelet, necklace, etc. The _happiness_ of finding the lost coin shows the _happiness_ of God...
_Either what woman having ten pieces of silver_ MAN RESEMBLED TO SILVER COIN 1. And that in regard of matter. No metal except gold (which indeed is most solid and perfectly concocted with sufficien...
THE LOST COIN What woman having ten pieces of silver, if she lose one piece, doth not light a lamp, and sweep the house, and seek diligently until she find it? Luke 15:8. Are you clever at finding t...
LUKE—NOTE ON LUKE 15:8 TEN SILVER COINS. Perhaps about 10 denarii, or 10 days’ wages for a laborer. ⇐...
_Either that woman having ten pieces of silver_, &c. "Sweep," or as the Arabic renders it, "cleanse;" not "overturn," as some read with S. Gregory. The "piece of silver," or drachma, was a coin weighi...
CHAPTER 15 Ver. 1. _Then drew near under Him all the publicans and sinners_. _πάντες_, all, that is, many came together to hear Christ, attracted by His sanctity and by the loving-kindness with which...
_CRITICAL NOTES_ Luke 15:1. PUBLICANS AND SINNERS.—_I.e._, tax-gatherers, odious to the whole nation on account of their occupation and their unscrupulousness in carrying it on, and persons from whom...
EXPOSITION LUKE 15:1 The _Lord speaks his three parable-stories of the _"lost," _in which he explains his reason for loving and receiving the sinful._ LUKE 15:1,...
Then drew near to him all the publicans and sinners to hear him. And the Pharisees and scribes murmured, saying, This man receives sinners, and eats with them (Luke 15:1-2). Notice the four groups tha...
Ephesians 2:17; Ezekiel 34:12; John 10:16; John 11:52; Luke 19:10...
Pieces of silver [δ ρ α χ μ α ς]. Used by Luke only. A coin worth about eighteen cents, commonly with the image of an owl, a tortoise, or a head of Pallas. As a weight, 65. 5 grains. A common weight i...
CHRIST SEEKING TO SAVE Luke 15:1 INTRODUCTORY WORDS The story of the prodigal son is one part of a threefold parable. 1. WE HAVE THE SHEPHERD SUFFERING AS HE SEEKS HIS SHEEP. The parable describes...
The scope of this parable is the same with the former. 1. To express the joy that is found with God and his holy angels, at the recovery and conversion of. notorious sinner. 2. To justify Christ in c...