CHAPTER VI. _The disciples pluck and eat the ears of corn on the Sabbath_ _day, and the Pharisees find fault_, 1, 2. _Our Lord shows the true use of the Sabbath_, 3-5. _He heals the man with the withered hand_, 6-11. _He goes into a mountain to pray, and calls twelve disciples_, 12-16. _Multi... [ Continue Reading ]
Verse Luke 6:2. _WHICH IS NOT LAWFUL_] See on Matthew 12:2.... [ Continue Reading ]
Verse Luke 6:3. _WHAT DAVID DID_] See on Luke 2:26; Luke 2:27.... [ Continue Reading ]
Verse Luke 6:4. After this verse, the _Codex Bezae_ and _two_ ancient MSS. quoted by _Wechel_, have the following extraordinary addition: Τῃ αυτῃ ἡμερᾳ θεασαμενος τινα εργαζομενον τῳ σαββατῳ, ειπεν αυτῳ, Ανθρωπε, ει μεν οιδας τι ποιεις μακαριος ει; ει δε μη οιδας επικαταρατος, και παραβατης... [ Continue Reading ]
Verse Luke 6:6. _WHOSE RIGHT HAND WAS WITHERED._] Matthew 12:10, c. The critic who says that ξηραν χειρα signifies a _luxated arm_, and that the stretching it out restored the bone to its proper place, without the intervention of a miracle, deserves no serious refutation. Luke 6:10.... [ Continue Reading ]
Verse Luke 6:7. _WATCHED HIM_] Παρετηρουν αυτον, _They maliciously watched him_. This is the import of the word, Luke 14:1; Luke 20:20, and in the parallel place, Mark 3:2. See _Raphelius_ on the last-quoted text, who has proved, by several quotations, that this is the proper meaning of the term. _... [ Continue Reading ]
Verse Luke 6:9. _I WILL ASK YOU ONE THING_] I will put a question to you. See note on Mark 3:4; Mark 3:5.... [ Continue Reading ]
Verse Luke 6:10. _WHOLE AS THE OTHER._] Many MSS., both here and in the parallel place, Mark 3:5, omit the word υγιης, _whole_. _Griesbach_ leaves it out of the text. The hand was restored as the other. But had it only been a luxated joint, even allowing, with a German critic, that the bone regained... [ Continue Reading ]
Verse Luke 6:11. _THEY WERE FILLED WITH MADNESS_] Pride, obstinacy, and interest, combined together, are capable of any thing. When men have once framed their _conscience_ according to their _passions_, _madness_ passes for _zeal_, the blackest conspiracies for pious designs, and the most horrid att... [ Continue Reading ]
Verse Luke 6:12. _IN PRAYER TO GOD._] Or, _in the prayer of God_: or, _in_ _the oratory of God_, εν τῃ προσευχῃ του Θεου. So this passage is translated by many critics; for which Dr. Whitby gives the following reasons: As the _mountain of God_, Exodus 3:1; Exodus 4:27; the _bread of God_, Levitic... [ Continue Reading ]
Verse Luke 6:13. _HE CHOSE TWELVE_] εκλεξαμενος απ αυτων, _He chose_ _twelve OUT of them_. Our Lord at this time had several disciples, persons who were _converted_ to God under his ministry; and, out of these converts, he chose twelve, whom he appointed to the work of the ministry; and called them... [ Continue Reading ]
Verse Luke 6:15. _CALLED ZELOTES_] Some Jews gave this name to themselves, according to _Josephus_, (War, b. iv. c. iii. s. 9, and vii. c. viii. s. 1,) "because they pretended to be more than ordinarily _zealous_ for religion, and yet practised the very worst of actions." "But this (says the judici... [ Continue Reading ]
Verse Luke 6:17. _AND STOOD IN THE PLAIN_] In Matthew 5:1, which is supposed to be the parallel place, our Lord is represented as delivering this sermon _on the mountain_; and this has induced some to think that the sermon mentioned here by Luke, though the same in substance with that in Matthew, w... [ Continue Reading ]
Verse Luke 6:20. _BLESSED_ BE YE _POOR_] See the sermon on the mount paraphrased and explained, Matthew 5:11, Matthew 5:7. Matthew 5:1,ffLuke 11:1ff, Matthew 7:1ff.... [ Continue Reading ]
Verse Luke 6:22. _THEY SHALL SEPARATE YOU_] Meaning, They will excommunicate you, αφορισωσινυμας, or _separate you_ from their _communion_. Luke having spoken of their separating or excommunicating them, continues the same idea, in saying that they would cast out their _name_ likewise, as a thing e... [ Continue Reading ]
Verse Luke 6:23. _DID - UNTO THE PROPHETS._] See 1 Kings 18:4; 1 Kings 19:20; 2 Chronicles 24:21; 2 Chronicles 36:16; Nehemiah 9:26.... [ Continue Reading ]
Verse Luke 6:24. _BUT WO UNTO YOU THAT ARE RICH!_] The Pharisees, who were laden with the spoils of the people which they received in gifts, c. These three verses are not found in the sermon, as recorded by Matthew. They seem to be spoken chiefly to the _scribes_ and _Pharisees_, who, in order to be... [ Continue Reading ]
Verse 29. _THY CLOAK - THY COAT_] In Matthew 5:40, I have said that COAT, χιτωνα, signifies _under garment_, or _strait coat_; and CLOAK, ιματιον, means _upper garment_, or _great coat_. This interpretation is confirmed by the following observations of Bishop Pearce. The χιτων was a _tunica_, or _v... [ Continue Reading ]
Verse 30. _ASK THEM NOT AGAIN._] Or, _Do not beg them off_. This probably refers to the way in which the tax-gatherers and Roman soldiers used to spoil the people. "When such harpies as these come upon your goods, suffer the injury quietly, leaving yourselves in the hand of God, rather than attempt... [ Continue Reading ]
Verse 32. _FOR SINNERS ALSO LOVE THOSE THAT LOVE THEM._] I believe the word αμαρτωλοι is used by St. Luke in the same sense in which τελωναι, _tax-gatherers_, is used by St. Matthew, Matthew 5:46-40, and signifies _heathens_; not only men who _have_ no religion, but men who _acknowledge_ none. The... [ Continue Reading ]
Verse 34. _OF WHOM YE HOPE TO RECEIVE_] Or, _whom ye expect to_ _return it_. "To make our neighbour purchase, _in any way_, the assistance which we give him, is to profit by his misery; and, by laying him under _obligations_ which we expect him in _some way_ or _other_ to discharge, we increase his... [ Continue Reading ]
Verse 35. _LOVE YE YOUR ENEMIES_] This is the most sublime precept ever delivered to man: a false religion durst not give a precept of this nature, because, without _supernatural_ influence, it must be for ever impracticable. In these words of our blessed Lord we see the tenderness, sincerity, exten... [ Continue Reading ]
Verse 36. _BE YE THEREFORE MERCIFUL_] Or, _compassionate_; οικτιρμινες, from οικτος, _commiseration_, which etymologists derive from εικω to _give place, yield_, because we readily _concede_ those things which are necessary to them whom we commiserate. As God is ever _disposed_ to give all necessar... [ Continue Reading ]
Verse 37. _JUDGE NOT_] Matthew 7:1, Matthew 7:1. "How great is the goodness of God, in being so willing to put our judgment into our own hands as to engage himself not to enter into judgment with us, provided we do not usurp the right which belongs solely to him in reference to others!" _CONDEMN NO... [ Continue Reading ]
Verse 38. _GIVE, AND IT SHALL BE GIVEN_] "Christian charity will make no difficulty in _giving_ that which eternal truth promises to _restore_. Let us _give_, neither out of mere human generosity, nor out of vanity, nor from interest, but for the sake of God, if we would have him place it to account... [ Continue Reading ]
Verse 39. _CAN THE BLIND LEAD THE BLIND?_] This appears to have been a general proverb, and to signify that a man cannot teach what he does not understand. This is strictly true in spiritual matters. A man who is not illuminated from above is utterly incapable of judging concerning spiritual things,... [ Continue Reading ]
Verse 40. _EVERY ONE THAT IS PERFECT_] Or, _thoroughly instructed_, κατηρτισμενος: - from καταρτιζω, to _adjust, adapt, knit together,_ _restore_, or _put in joint_. The noun is used by the Greek medical writers to signify the reducing a luxated or disjointed limb. It sometimes signifies to _repair... [ Continue Reading ]
Verse 41. _AND WHY BEHOLDEST THOU THE MOTE_] See this explained on Matthew 7:3.... [ Continue Reading ]
Verse 43. _CORRUPT FRUIT_] καρπον σαπρον, literally, _rotten fruit_: but here it means, such fruit as is unfit for use. See on Matthew 7:17.... [ Continue Reading ]
Verse 45. _A GOOD MAN_] Matthew 12:35, Matthew 12:35.... [ Continue Reading ]
Verse 46. _LORD, LORD_] God judges of the heart, not by _words_, but by _works_. A good servant never disputes, speaks little, and always follows his work. Such a servant a real Christian is: such is a faithful minister, always intent either on the work of his own salvation, or that of his neighbour... [ Continue Reading ]
Verse Luke 6:47. _I WILL SHOW YOU_] υποδειξω, _I will show you plainly_. I will enable you _fully_ to comprehend my meaning on this subject by the following parable. See this word explained Matthew 3:7.... [ Continue Reading ]
Verse Luke 6:48. _HE IS LIKE A MAN_, c.] See on Matthew 7:24.... [ Continue Reading ]
Verse Luke 6:49. _THE RUIN OF THAT HOUSE WAS GREAT._] On this passage, father _Quesnel_, who was a most rigid predestinarian, makes the following judicious remark. "It is neither by the speculations of astrologers, nor by the Calvinian assurance of predestination, that we can discover what will be o... [ Continue Reading ]