CHAPTER X. _Christ appoints seventy disciples to go before him, two by two,_ _to preach, heal, c._, 1-12. _Pronounces woes on Chorazin and Capernaum_, 13-16. _The seventy return, and give account of their mission_, 17-20. _Christ rejoices that the things which were hidden from the wise_ _and p... [ Continue Reading ]
Verse Luke 10:2. _THAT HE WOULD SEND FORTH_] εκβαλη. There seems to be an allusion here to the case of reapers, who, though the harvest was perfectly ripe, yet were in _no hurry_ to cut it down. News of this is brought to the _Lord of the harvest_ the _farmer_, and he is entreated to exert his autho... [ Continue Reading ]
Verse Luke 10:3. _LAMBS AMONG WOLVES._] Matthew 10:16, Matthew 10:16.... [ Continue Reading ]
Verse Luke 10:4. _CARRY NEITHER PURSE NOR SCRIP_] Matthew 10:9, c., and Mark 6:8, Mark 6:8, c. _SALUTE NO MAN BY THE WAY._] According to a canon of the Jews, a man who was about any sacred work was exempted from all _civil_ obligations for the time forasmuch as obedience to God was of infinitely gr... [ Continue Reading ]
Verse Luke 10:5. _PEACE_ BE _TO THIS HOUSE_] Matthew 10:12.... [ Continue Reading ]
Verse Luke 10:6. _THE SON OF PEACE_] In the Jewish style, a man who has any _good_ or _bad_ quality is called _the son_ of it. Thus, wise men are called _the children of wisdom_, Matthew 11:19; Luke 7:35. So, likewise, what a man is _doomed_ to, he is called _the son_ of, as in Ephesians 2:3, wicke... [ Continue Reading ]
Verse Luke 10:7. _THE LABOURER IS WORTHY_] See on Matthew 10:8; Matthew 10:12. _GO NOT FROM HOUSE TO HOUSE._] Matthew 10:11. It would be a great offence among the _Hindoos_ if a guest, after being made welcome at a house, were to leave it and go to another.... [ Continue Reading ]
Verse Luke 10:9. _THE KINGDOM OF GOD IS COME NIGH UNTO YOU._] εφ υμας, _is_ _just upon you_. This was the general text on which they were to preach all their sermons. See it explained, Matthew 3:2.... [ Continue Reading ]
Verse Luke 10:11. _EVEN THE VERY DUST OF YOUR CITY_] See on Matthew 10:14; Matthew 10:15.... [ Continue Reading ]
Verse Luke 10:13. _WO UNTO THEE, CHORAZIN!_] See on Matthew 11:21.... [ Continue Reading ]
Verse Luke 10:15. _TO HELL._] _To hades_. See this explained, Matthew 11:23.... [ Continue Reading ]
Verse Luke 10:16. _HE THAT DESPISETH YOU, DESPISETH ME_] "The holy, blessed God said: 'Honour my statutes, for they are my ambassadors: and a man's ambassador is like to himself. If thou honour my precepts, it is the same as if thou didst honour me; and if thou despise them, thou despisest me." _R.... [ Continue Reading ]
Verse Luke 10:17. _THE SEVENTY RETURNED AGAIN WITH JOY_] Bishop PEARCE thinks they returned while our Lord was on his slow journey to Jerusalem, and that they had been absent only a few days.... [ Continue Reading ]
Verse Luke 10:18. _I BEHELD SATAN_] Or, _Satan himself_, τον σαταναν, _the_ _very Satan_, the _supreme adversary_, falling as lightning, with the utmost _suddenness_, as a flash of lightning falls from the clouds, and at the same time in the most _observable_ manner. The fall was both very _sudden_... [ Continue Reading ]
Verse Luke 10:19. _TO TREAD ON SERPENTS_, c.] It is possible that by _serpents_ and _scorpions_ our Lord means the _scribes_ and _Pharisees_, whom he calls _serpents_ and a _brood of vipers_, Matthew 23:33, (see the note there,) because, through the subtilty and venom of the old _serpent_, the devi... [ Continue Reading ]
Verse Luke 10:20. _BECAUSE YOUR NAMES ARE WRITTEN IN HEAVEN._] This form of speech is taken from the ancient custom of writing the names of all the citizens in a public register, that the several families might be known, and the inheritances properly preserved. This custom is still observed even in... [ Continue Reading ]
Verse Luke 10:21. _REJOICED IN SPIRIT_] Was truly and heartily joyous: felt an inward triumph. But τῳ πνευματι, τῳ ἁγιῳ, _the HOLY Spirit_, is the reading here of BCDKL, _six_ others; the _three Syriac_, later _Persic, Coptic, AEthiopic, Armenian, Vulgate_, all the _Itala_ except one, and _Augus... [ Continue Reading ]
Verse Luke 10:22. The Codex Alexandrinus, several other very ancient MSS., and some ancient versions, as well as the _margin_ of our _own_, begin this verse with, _And turning to his disciples, he said_. But as this clause begins Luke 10:23, it is not likely that it was originally in both. _Griesbac... [ Continue Reading ]
Verse Luke 10:23. _BLESSED ARE THE EYES WHICH SEE THE THINGS THAT YE SEE_] There is a similar saying to this among the rabbins, in _Sohar._ _Genes_., where it is said, "Blessed is that generation which the earth shall bear, when the King Messiah cometh.... [ Continue Reading ]
Verse Luke 10:24. _MANY PROPHETS_] See on Matthew 13:11; Matthew 13:17.... [ Continue Reading ]
Verse 25. _A CERTAIN LAWYER_] Matthew 24:35, Matthew 24:35.... [ Continue Reading ]
Verse 27. _THOU SHALT LOVE THE LORD_] See this important subject explained at large, on Matthew 22:37. _THY NEIGHBOUR AS THYSELF._] See the nature of _self-love_ explained, on Matthew 19:19.... [ Continue Reading ]
Verse 29. _WILLING TO JUSTIFY HIMSELF_] Wishing to make it appear that he was a _righteous_ man, and that consequently he was in the straight road to the kingdom of God, said, _Who is my neighbour_? supposing our Lord would have at once answered, "Every Jew is to be considered as such, and the Jews... [ Continue Reading ]
Verse 30. _AND JESUS ANSWERING_] Rather, _Then Jesus took him up_. This I believe to be the meaning of the word υπολαβων; he threw out a challenge, and our Lord _took him up_ on his own ground. See WAKEFIELD'S _Testament_. _A CERTAIN_ MAN _WENT DOWN FROM JERUSALEM_] Or, _A certain man of_ _Jerusale... [ Continue Reading ]
Verse Luke 10:31. _AND BY CHANCE_] κατα συγκυριαν properly means the _coincidence_ of _time_ and _circumstance_. At the time in which the poor Jew was half dead, through the wounds which he had received, a priest came where he was. So the _priest's_ coming _while_ the _man_ was in that _state_ is th... [ Continue Reading ]
Verse 33. _Samaritan_ is mentioned merely to show that he was a person from whom a _Jew_ had no right to expect any help or relief, because of the enmity which subsisted between the two nations.... [ Continue Reading ]
Verse 34. _POURING IN OIL AND WINE_] These, beaten together, appear to have been used formerly as a common medicine for fresh wounds. Bind up a fresh cut immediately in a soft rag or lint, moistened with pure olive oil, and the parts will heal by what is called the _first intention_, and more speedi... [ Continue Reading ]
Verse 35. _TWO PENCE_] _Two denarii_, about _fifteen pence_, English; and which, probably, were at that time of ten times more value there than so much is with us now.... [ Continue Reading ]
Verse 36. _WHICH - WAS NEIGHBOUR_] Which fulfilled the _duty_ which _one_ neighbour owes to _another_?... [ Continue Reading ]
Verse 37. _HE THAT SHOWED MERCY_] Or, _so much mercy_. His _prejudice_ would not permit him to name the _Samaritan_, yet his _conscience_ obliged him to acknowledge that he was the only righteous person of the three. _GO, AND DO THOU LIKEWISE_] Be even to thy enemy in distress as kind, humane, and... [ Continue Reading ]
Verse 38. _A CERTAIN VILLAGE_] If this village was Bethany, where Martha and Mary lived, at less than two miles' distance from Jerusalem, see John 11:1; John 11:18; John 12:2, then this must have happened _later_ than Luke places it; because, in Luke 19:29, he represents Jesus as having arrived afte... [ Continue Reading ]
Verse 39. _SAT AT JESUS' FEET_] This was the posture of the Jewish scholars, while listening to the instructions of the rabbins. It is in this sense that St. Paul says he was _brought up at the FEET_ _of Gamaliel_, Acts 22:3.... [ Continue Reading ]
Verse Luke 10:40. _MARTHA WAS CUMBERED_] περιεσπατο, _perplexed_, from περι, _about_, and σπαω, _I draw_. She was harassed with different cares and employments at the same time; one drawing one way, and another, another: a proper description of a worldly mind. But in Martha's favour it may be justly... [ Continue Reading ]
Verse Luke 10:41. _THOU ART CAREFUL AND TROUBLED_] _Thou art distracted_, μεριμνας, _thy mind is divided_, (Matthew 13:22,) in consequence of which, τυρβαζη, _thou art disturbed_, thy spirit is thrown into a _tumult_. _ABOUT MANY THINGS._] Getting a _variety_ of things ready for this entertainment,... [ Continue Reading ]
Verse Luke 10:42. _ONE THING IS NEEDFUL_] This is the end of the sentence, according to _Bengel_. "Now Mary hath chosen, c.," begins a new one. One single dish, the simplest and plainest possible, is such as best suits me and my disciples, whose meat and drink it is to do the will of our heavenly Fa... [ Continue Reading ]