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LUKE 12:21 _include verse_ {A}
The omission of ver. Luke 12:21 from D ita, b, d must be accidental,
for the weight of external evidence attesting its inclusion is
overwhelming. Furthermore, a careful...
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SO IS HE - This is the portion or the doom.
LAYETH UP TREASURE FOR HIMSELF - Acquires riches for his own use - for
“himself.” This is the characteristic of the covetous man. It is
all for “himself.”...
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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. ...
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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....
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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...
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THE CREED OF COURAGE AND OF TRUST (Luke 12:1-12)...
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TOWARD. Greek. _eis._ App-104....
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_is not rich towards God_ Rather, IF HE IS NOT. We are often taught
elsewhere in Scripture in what way we can be rich toward God. Matthew
6:19-21; 1 Timothy 6:17-19; James 2:5. There is a close parall...
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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...
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EGOTISM REBUKED. THE RICH FOOL...
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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...
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ΜῊ … ΠΛΟΥΤΩ͂Ν. ‘If he is not rich.’ We are often
taught elsewhere in Scripture in what way we can be rich toward God.
Matthew 6:19-21; 1 Timothy 6:17-19; James 2:5. There is a close
parallel to this p...
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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...
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ΘΗΣΑΥΡΊΖΩΝ _praes. act. part. от_ ΘΗΣΑΥΡΊΖΩ
(G2343) собирать сокровища. Привычный
_praes._ Part, в роли _subst._ ΈΑΥΤΩ (G1438) _dat. sing.
refl. pron. Dat._ личной заинтересованности
("для себя"),
ΠΛ...
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DISCOURSE: 1527
THE RICH FOOL
Luke 12:20. _But God said unto him, Thou fool, this night thy soul
shall be required of thee: then whose shall those things be which thou
hast provided? So is he that la...
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AND IS NOT RICH TOWARDS GOD.— There is a force and propriety in the
phrase εις θεον, here rendered _towards God,_ which our
language will not exactly express; it represents God as a depositary,
in who...
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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...
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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...
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So is he that layeth up treasure for himself, and is not rich toward
God.
SO IS HE THAT LAYETH UP TREASURE FOR HIMSELF, AND IS NOT RICH TOWARD
GOD. Here is a picture of present folly, and of its aw...
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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...
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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...
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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....
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RICH TOWARD GOD] On laying up treasure in heaven, which is here meant,
see on Matthew 6:19.
There is an interesting rabbinical parallel to this parable: 'Once
Rabbi Simeon went to a certain circumcisi...
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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...
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SO IS HE THAT LAYETH UP TREASURE FOR HIMSELF. — See Note on Matthew
6:19. To be “rich towards God” finds its explanation in the
language, probably suggested by it, which bids us to be “rich in
good wo...
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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...
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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...
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εἰς Θεὸν πλουτῶν, rich with treasure laid up with
God. Other interpretations are: rich in a way that pleases God, or
rich _in honorem Dei_, for the advancement of God's glory. The last
sense implies t...
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_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....
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_An interlude leading to a change of theme_, in Lk. only....
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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...
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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...
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So [is] he that layeth up treasure (h) for himself, and is not rich
toward God.
(h) Caring for no man but for himself, and making sure to trust in
himself....
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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...
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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...
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(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...
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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...
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21._So is he that layeth up for himself. _As the two clauses are
evidently contrasted, the one must be taken into account for the
exposition of the other. Let us ascertain, therefore, what is meant by...
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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...
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SO IS HE THAT LAYETH UP TREASURE FOR HIMSELF,.... This is the
accommodation of the parable. Just such a fool is he, and this will be
the end or him, who employs all his thoughts, and spends all his ti...
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So _is_ he that layeth up treasure for himself, and is not rich toward
God.
Ver. 21. _Rich to God_] That is, rich in faith, James 2:5; rich in
good works, 1 Timothy 6:18 ....
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_So_ Such a fool, _is he_, in the divine account; _that layeth up
treasure for himself_ Here on earth: _and is not rich toward God_ In
acts of piety and charity, which would secure a fund of celestial...
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THAT LAYETH UP TREASURE FOR HIMSELF; lives supremely for himself, not
for God, which was the great sin charged upon this man....
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SO IS HE THAT LAYETH UP TREASURE FOR HIMSELF, AND IS NOT RICH TOWARD
GOD.
The foolishness of covetousness and of trusting in riches could not be
brought out more emphatically than in this parable. A c...
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The parable of the rich man:...
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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,...
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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...
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SEE POOLE ON "LUKE 12:18...
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Luke 12:21 So G3779 treasure G2343 (G5723) himself G1438 and G2532 is
G4147 not G3361 rich G4147 ...
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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...
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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...
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“So is he who lays up treasure for himself, and is not rich toward
God.”
And Jesus then delivered the punch line. That is what happens to those
who use their riches for themselves, and are not rich to...
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Luke 12:13-21. WARNING AGAINST COVETOUS-NESS. Peculiar to Luke....
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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...
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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...
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Luke 12:21. SO, thus foolish and destitute, even though the hour of
his awaking from the dream of wisdom and wealth has not yet come, IS,
not ‘will be,' for a terrible every-day fact is set forth, HE...
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NOT RICH TOWARD GOD
(μη εις θεον πλουτων). The only wealth that matters
and that lasts. Cf. Luke 16:9; Matthew 6:19. Some MSS. do not have
this verse. Westcott and Hort bracket it....
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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...
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Luke 12:21
I. Consider the sinfulness of the rich man, as gathered from his
address to his soul. The rich man addressed his soul when forming his
plan for a long course of selfishness. "I will say to...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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YOU FOOL! His fellow men may have thought he was wise, but he is _a
fool_ in God's view. THIS EVERY NIGHT YOU WILL HAVE TO GIVE UP YOUR
LIFE. He thought he had long years ahead of him, but instead his...
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_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...
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LUKE—NOTE ON LUKE 12:19 Though these verses do not prohibit wealth,
Jesus clearly warns his hearers about its dangers. Wealth tends to
lead to self-sufficiency and greed.
⇐...
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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...
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_So is he that layeth up treasure for himself._ Such an end and such a
death did the rich covetous man meet who had not laid up treasure
toward God. It will be asked, Who is rich towards God? I answer...
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_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...
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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...
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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...
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1 Timothy 6:18; 1 Timothy 6:19; 2 Corinthians 6:10; Habakkuk 2:9;...
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Rich toward God — Namely, in faith, and love, and good works....