Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
Luke 12:16
Verse Luke 12:16. The ground of a certain rich man, c.] He had generally what is called good luck in his farm, and this was a remarkably plentiful year.
Verse Luke 12:16. The ground of a certain rich man, c.] He had generally what is called good luck in his farm, and this was a remarkably plentiful year.
A PARABLE - See the notes at Matthew 13:3. PLENTIFULLY - His land was fertile, and produced even beyond his expectations, and beyond what he had provided for....
CHAPTER 12 _ 1. Warning Against Hypocrisy. (Luke 12:1)_ 2. Encouragements. (Luke 12:4) 3. Warning Against Covetousness. (Luke 12:15) 4. Warning Against Anxiety. ...
PARABLE OF THE RICH FOOL. Lk. only. LUKE 12:13_. _ The crowd of Luke 12:1 reappears here. Luke 12:14. Jesus declines to usurp the functions of the civil judge....
One of the crowd said to Jesus, "Teacher, tell my brother to divide the inheritance with me." He said to him, "Man, who appointed me a judge or an arbitrator over you?" He said to them, "Watch and gua...
THE CREED OF COURAGE AND OF TRUST (Luke 12:1-12)...
GROUND. estate. Greek. _chora._ BROUGHT FORTH PLENTIFULLY. Greek _euphoreo._ Occurs only here....
_The ground_ Rather, The estate. In this parable (peculiar to St Luke) our Lord evidently referred mentally to the story of Nabal, whose name means -Fool" or -Churl" (1 Samuel 25). Observe that his ri...
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...
ΕΥ̓ΦΌΡΗΣΕΝ. A rare word (here only in the N. T.) and perhaps derived by St Luke from medical writings in which it occurs. Ἡ ΧΏΡΑ. ‘The estate.’ In this parable (peculiar to St Luke) our Lord evidently...
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...
EGOTISM REBUKED. THE RICH FOOL...
Ver 16. And he spoke a parable to them, saying, The ground of a certain rich man brought forth plentifully: 17. And he thought within himself, saying, What shall I do, because I have no room where to...
ΠΛΟΎΣΙΟΣ (G4145) богатый, очень богатый. ΕΎΦΌΡΗΣΕΝ _aor. ind. act. от_ ΕΎΦΟΡΈΩ (G2164) приносить много плодов, быть плодотворным. Одним из благословений завета был хороший урожай (Deuteronomy 28:8)....
AND HE SPAKE A PARABLE UNTO THEM,— The first thing to be inquired into, is the true drift and meaning of this parable. In the 15th verse our Lord warns his hearers to _beware of covetousness._ In this...
APPLEBURY'S COMMENTS _The Man God Called a Fool Scripture_ Luke 12:13-21 And one out of the multitude said unto him, Teacher, bid my brother divide the inheritance with me. 14 But he said unto him, M...
BUTLER'S COMMENTS SECTION 2 Astuteness in Alertness (Luke 12:13-34) 13 One of the multitude said to him, Teacher, bid my brother divide the inheritance with me. 14But he said to him, Man, who made m...
And he spake a parable unto them, saying, The ground of a certain rich man brought forth plentifully: And he spake a parable ... The ground of a certain rich man brought forth plentifully: And he t...
14 See Exo_2:14. 15 Compare 1Ti_6:6-10. 15 A telling truth which would do more to ameliorate the ills of humanity than all government, were it heeded, is embodied in the phrase, "the superfluity of...
THE LEAVEN OF THE PHARISEES. THE RICH FOOL 1-12. Jesus warns His followers against Pharisaic hypocrisy, and exhorts them to be courageous in face of opposition. This speech is not unsuitable to the co...
PARABLE OF THE RICH FOOL (peculiar to Lk). The parable teaches that since death and judgment are inevitable, men ought to devote their attention to laying up treasure in heaven, not on earth....
BROUGHT FORTH] The man's wealth was honestly and justly acquired. His fault was not injustice, but covetousness....
LUKE’S GOOD NEWS LUKE _HILDA BRIGHT_ CHAPTER 12 JESUS WARNS AND ENCOURAGES HIS *DISCIPLES 12:1-12 1 WARNING ABOUT THE FALSE LIVES OF THE *PHARISEES 12:1-3 V1 Thousands of people had gathered. T...
CHAPTER 23 THE ESCHATOLOGY OF THE GOSPEL. COIFI, in his parable to the thanes and nobles of the North Humber country, likened the present life of man to the flight of a sparrow through one of their l...
CHAPTER 23 THE ESCHATOLOGY OF THE GOSPEL. COIFI, in his parable to the thanes and nobles of the North Humber country, likened the present life of man to the flight of a sparrow through one of their l...
εὐφόρησε, bore well; late and rare (here only in N.T.). Kypke gives examples from Josephus and Hippocrates. χώρα, estate, farm = ἀγρός (Luke 9:12), so in John 4:35....
_Parable of the rich fool_, simply a story embodying in concrete form the principle just enunciated: teaching the lesson of Psalms 49, and containing apparent echoes of Sir 11:17-3....
_An interlude leading to a change of theme_, in Lk. only....
THE DOOM OF THE MONEY LOVER Luke 12:13-21 Our Lord did not come into our world as an earthly judge, adjusting differences between man and man. He lays down great principles, obedience to which will b...
Knowing that the enmity of the rulers against Him would proceed also against His disciples, He told them not to be afraid of those who kill the body, remembering ever their Father's care, as revealed...
(6) And he spake a parable unto them, saying, The (e) ground of a certain rich man brought forth plentifully: (6) There are none more mad than rich men who depend upon their riches. (e) Or rather co...
CHAPTER 25 LEAVEN OF THE PHARISEES Luke 12:1. _“Meanwhile myriads of the multitude, having come together, so that they were treading on one another, He began to speak first to His disciples, Take hee...
2 _d. To the People: Luke 12:15-21_. _The Rich Fool._ Πρὸς αὐτούς (“He said _unto them_ ”), Luke 12:15, stands in opposition to _His disciples_, Luke 12:22. This slight detail confirms the exactness o...
(13) And one of the company said unto him, Master, speak to my brother, that he divide the inheritance with me. (14) And he said unto him, Man, who made me a judge, or a divider, over you? (15) And he...
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...
16._And he spoke a parable to them _This parable presents to us, as in a mirror, a lively portrait of this sentiment, that men _do not live by their abundance. _Since the life even of the richest men...
chapter 12 puts the disciples into this place of testimony by the power of the Holy Ghost, and with the world opposed to them, after the Lord's departure. It is the word and the Holy Ghost, instead of...
AND HE SPAKE A PARABLE UNTO THEM, SAYING,.... He supposed the following case, and made use of it by way of illustration of what he had said: THE GROUND OF A CERTAIN RICH MAN BROUGHT FORTH PLENTIFULLY...
And he spake a parable unto them, saying, The ground of a certain rich man brought forth plentifully: Ver. 16. _The ground of a certain rich man_] Gr. η χωρα. The country; for he had laid field to fi...
To illustrate his admonition, and give it the greater weight, our Lord here delivers an important parable. _The ground of a rich man brought forth plentifully_ This man, it appears, became rich, not b...
In providing for happiness, men should act, not for time merely, but for eternity, that, at whatever moment they may be called from earth, they may go to, and not from, their treasures....
AND HE SPAKE A PARABLE UNTO THEM, SAYING, THE GROUND OF A CERTAIN RICH MAN BROUGHT FORTH PLENTIFULLY;...
The parable of the rich man:...
THE PEOPLE WARNED AGAINST FALSE LEADERS (vs.1-12) At a time when the crowd was extremely large, the Lord addressed His disciples "first of all," warning them to beware of the leaven of the Pharisees,...
13-21 Christ's kingdom is spiritual, and not of this world. Christianity does not meddle with politics; it obliges all to do justly, but wordly dominion is not founded in grace. It does not encourage...
OLBGrk; Ver. 16-21. The evangelist lets us know, that these verses contain not a narrative of a matter of fact, but only a representation of something that is too ordinary, by a fictitious story. The...
Clement of Alexandria Stromata Book III Hujus "agrum" Dominus in Evangelio dicet "fuisse fertilem: "[91] Tertullian Against Marcion Book IV From Him, therefore, will proceed the parable of the rich...
Luke 12:16 G1161 spoke G2036 (G5627) parable G3850 to G4314 them G846 saying G3004 (G5723) ground...
‘And he spoke a parable to them, saying, “The ground of a certain rich man brought forth plentifully, and he reasoned within himself, saying, What shall I do, because I have not where to bestow my fru...
SECTION 5 (12:1-14:35). We commence here a new section of Luke. As we shall see this section centres around a mighty act of Jesus in delivering a woman bound by Satan, and thus doubled up and unable t...
THE DANGER OF RICHES (12:13-21). We now come to the first of a series of parables in this section. It is the first demonstration of how distorted Israel (and the world) is and how it needs to be made...
CHAPTER 12 is made up of a series of discourses following each other in immediate succession, but with less of unity and logical connection than are found in most of our Lord's recorded sermons. Some...
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 12:13-21. WARNING AGAINST COVETOUS-NESS. Peculiar to Luke....
Luke 12:16. A PARABLE. Yet a true history constantly repeated. THE GROUND, lit., ‘place,' _i.e.,_ estate. BROUGHT FORTH PLENTIFULLY. By God's blessing, not by fraud or injustice, did this man's we...
A PARABLE UNTO THEM (παραβολην προς αυτους). The multitude of verses Luke 12:13; Luke 12:15. A short and pungent parable suggested by the covetousness of the man of verse Luke 12:13.BROUGHT FORTH P...
Luke 12:13 The folly of the rich fool appears: I. In the fact that he completely ignored his responsibility to God in the matter of his possessions. He speaks of " _my_fruits," and " _my_goods," and...
Luke 12:13. _And one of the company said unto him, Master, speak to my brother, that he divide the inheritance with me. And he said unto him, Man, who made me a judge or a divider over you?_ Our Lord...
The teaching of our Lord, in this chapter, has very much to do with Christianity in connection with this present life, and its cares and troubles. God has nowhere promised us exemption from affliction...
In this chapter, our Saviour dispels the fears of his disciples concerning temporal things, and especially their fear of persecution and their fear of want. Luke 12:1. In the mean time, when there we...
Luke 12:13. _And one of the company said unto him, Master, speak to my brother, that he divide the inheritance with me, And he said unto him, Man, who made me a judge or a divider over you?_ Our Lord...
CONTENTS: Jesus warns of leaven of the Pharisees. Parable of the rich fool. Parable of the second coming. Parable of the steward and his servants. Christ, the divider of men. CHARACTERS: Jesus, disci...
Luke 12:1. _There were gathered together an innumerable multitude of people._ The Greek is myriads, or ten thousands of people. Luke 12:5. _Power to cast into hell._ The Greek is Gehenna, as on Isaiah...
THEN JESUS TOLD THEM THIS PARABLE. To show that riches are no protection. A RICH MAN HAD LAND. No hint that this man was dishonest. He worked hard for what he had. WHAT CAN I DO? His riches were in th...
_The ground of a certain rich man brought forth plentifully_ A SUCCESSFUL WORLDLY POLICY I. THE PICTURE OF A SUCCESSFUL WORLDLY POLICY. 1. No sin in worldly success. 2. No sin in wise and thoughtf...
CHAPTER 12 VER. 1. _In the mean time when there were gathered together an innumerable multitude of people._ The Greek has "the myriads of the multitude." A myriad contains exactly ten thousand, and is...
_And He spake a parable unto them, saying, The ground of a certain rich man brought forth plentifully._ The ground in the Greek (_χώζα_) means a large extent of land, a number of fields. _And he reaso...
_CRITICAL NOTES_ Luke 12:13. ONE OF THE COMPANY.—Rather, “one out of the multitude” (R.V.). Perhaps the mention of magistrates and powers suggested to him Christ’s acting as a judge and giving a decis...
EXPOSITION LUKE 12:1 _The Lord_,_ after leaving the Pharisee_'_s house_,_ speaks at great length to a numerous crowd waiting for him_,_ addressing his words principally to his own disciples. _The for...
Shall we turn in our Bibles to Luke's gospel, chapter 12. We are dealing with the final month in the ministry of Jesus. He has returned to Jerusalem. He will soon be leaving Jerusalem to go down to th...
Acts 14:17; Genesis 26:12; Genesis 41:47; Hosea 2:8; Job 12:6;...
The design and scope of our Saviour in this parable, is to show men the vileness and vanity of the sin of covetousness, or an eager and insatiable desire after the things of this world. When men heap...