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LUKE 17:33 eva.n zhth,sh| th.n yuch.n auvtou/ peripoih,sasqai {B}
The verb peripoiei/sqai, which occurs only here in the Gospels, was
altered by some copyists to the much more familiar word sw,zein
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Verse Luke 17:33. _WHOSOEVER SHALL SEEK TO SAVE HIS LIFE_] These or
similar words were spoken on another occasion. See on Matthew 10:39;
Matthew 16:25....
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See the notes at Matthew 10:39....
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CHAPTER 17
_ 1. Concerning Offenses and Forgiveness. (Luke 17:1)_
2. Increase of Faith and Lowly Service. (Luke 17:5)
3. The Ten Lepers. (Luke 17:11)
4. Concerning the Kingdom and His Second Coming...
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LUKE 17. The chapter illustrates the difficulty experienced by Lk. in
using the material at his disposal. He here brings together without
any clear connexion of thought a selection of sayings of Chris...
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When Jesus was asked by the Pharisees when the kingdom of God was
coming, he answered them, "The kingdom of God does not come with signs
that you can watch for; nor will they say, 'Look here!' or 'Loo...
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LAWS OF THE CHRISTIAN LIFE (Luke 17:1-10)...
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LIFE. Greek. _psuche._ See App-110.
HIS LIFE. it.
PRESERVE IT. preserve it alive. Greek. _zoogoneo._ Occurs only here
and in Acts 7:19. Repeated from Luke 9:24; Luke 9:25....
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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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_Whosoever shall seek to save his life_ See the same utterance, with
slight verbal alterations, in Luke 9:24; John 12:25. St Paul's high
confidence as to the issue of his own apparently ruined and def...
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THE ‘WHEN?’ AND ‘WHERE?’ OF THE KINGDOM OF GOD...
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ὋΣ ἘᾺΝ ΖΗΤΉΣΗΙ Κ.Τ.Λ. See the same utterance, with
slight verbal alterations, in Luke 9:24; John 12:25. St Paul’s high
confidence as to the issue of his own apparently ruined and defeated
life, furnis...
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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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VER 31. IN THAT DAY, HE WHICH SHALL BE UPON THE HOUSETOP, AND HIS
STUFF IN THE HOUSE, LET HIM NOT COME DOWN TO TAKE IT AWAY: AND HE THAT
IS IN THE FIELD, LET HIM LIKEWISE NOT RETURN BACK. 32. REMEMBER...
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ΖΗΤΉΣΗ _aor. conj. act. от_ ΖΗΤΈΩ (G2212) искать,
пытаться, стараться, с _inf. Conj._ с ός ΆΝ
(G3739; G159) в indef. rel. _прид._ ΠΕΡΙΠΟΝΉΣΑΣΘΑΙ
_aor. med. inf. от_ ΠΕΡΙΠΟΙΈΩ (G4046) сохранять
(med.)...
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WHOSOEVER SHALL SEEK TO SAVE HIS LIFE, &C.— As in the whole of this
discourse our Lord is speaking of the temporal calamities which were
to befal the Jewish nation, his words in this verse must be
int...
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BUTLER'S COMMENTS
SECTION 3
Guarded (Luke 17:20-37)
20 Being asked by the Pharisees when the kingdom of God was coming he
answered them, The kingdom of God is not coming with signs to be
observed;...
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Whosoever shall seek to save his life shall lose it; and whosoever
shall lose his life shall preserve it.
WHOSOEVER SHALL SEEK TO SAVE HIS LIFE SHALL LOSE IT; AND WHOSOEVER
SHALL LOSE HIS LIFE SHA...
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22-25 Compare Luk_5:35; Mat_24:23-27; Mar_13:21-23; Joh_13:33.
25 Compare Luk_9:22.
26-27 Compare Mat_24:37-39; Gen. 7.
26 The unexpected suddenness of the coming of the Son of Mankind is
further en...
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In Matthew 10:39; Matthew 16:25, where the same words occur, the
reference is to willingness to suffer martyrdom. Here the idea is more
general: 'He who sets too much value on his earthly life, shall...
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ON THE COMING OF THE SON OF MAN. The Pharisees having now withdrawn,
Jesus proceeds to speak more unreservedly to the disciples of the
final and glorious coming of His Kingdom, which will be heralded...
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OCCASIONS OF OFFENCE. THE TEN LEPERS. THE SECOND ADVENT
1, 2. On causing others to sin. See on Matthew 18:6; Matthew 18:7.
2, ONE OF THESE LITTLE ONES] An affectionate designation of the
disciples, e...
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LUKE’S GOOD NEWS
LUKE
_HILDA BRIGHT_
CHAPTER 17
THE DANGER IF YOU CAUSE OTHER PEOPLE TO *SIN 17:1-2
V1 Jesus said to his *disciples, ‘Things will certainly happen that
turn people away from God....
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WHOSOEVER SHALL SEEK TO SAVE HIS LIFE. — The better MSS. give a word
which is rendered elsewhere by “purchase” (Acts 20:28; 1 Timothy
3:13), and perhaps always suggests, as the other word for “save”
d...
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_Sauve qui peut_ (Matthew 24:17-18; Mark 13:15-16). The saying in Luke
17:31 is connected in Mt. and Mk. with the crisis of Jerusalem, to
which in this discourse in Lk. there is no allusion. The conne...
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_Concerning the coming of the Kingdom and the advent of the Son of
Man_. In this section the words of Jesus are distributed between
Pharisees and disciples, possibly according to the evangelist's
impr...
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“THE DAYS OF THE SON OF MAN”
Luke 17:22-37
Clearly enough, our Lord foresaw the approaching dissolution of the
Jewish state. There was no help for it, notwithstanding all that the
Baptist and Christ...
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The thinking of the Master for His disciples is always that they
should live in love. He knew, however, that offenses must come. In
that connection He uttered the solemn word of warning, "Woe unto him...
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Whosoever shall seek to save his life shall lose it; and whosoever
shall lose his life shall (e) preserve it.
(e) That is, will save it, as Matthew expounds it: for the life that
is spoken of here is...
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SANCTIFICATION AND GLORIFICATION
Luke 17:33. _“Whosoever may seek to save his soul shall lose it; and
whosoever shall lose it, shall find it.”_ The E. V. here says
“life,” where I have translated “sou...
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2 _d. Luke 17:22-37_. _The Coming of the Kingdom._
To the Pharisees Jesus declared what they did not know, the spiritual
essence of the kingdom. But Jesus did not mean to deny the external
and final a...
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“ _In that day, he which shall be upon the housetop, and his stuff
in the house, let him not come down to take it away: and he that is in
the field, let him likewise not return back._ 32. _Remember Lo...
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(22) And he said unto the disciples, The days will come when ye shall
desire to see one of the days of the Son of man, and ye shall not see
it. (23) And they shall say to you, See here, or see there:...
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The last chapter gave in the judgment of present things, another world
and eternal things in good and evil, the Lord's instruction for the
disciples after the dealings of grace in Luke 15:1-32, and th...
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Grace is the spring of the Christian's walk, and furnishes directions
for it. He cannot with impunity (chapter 17) despise the weak. He must
not be weary of pardoning his brother. If he have faith but...
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Whosoever shall seek to save his life shall lose it; and whosoever
shall lose his life shall preserve it.
Ver. 33. _See Trapp on "_ Mat 16:25 _"_ _See Trapp on "_ Mat 10:39 _"_...
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_Whosoever shall seek to save his life, shall lose it_ The sense of
this and the following verses is, Yet, as great as the danger will be,
do not seek to save your lives by violating your consciences;...
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SEEK TO SAVE HIS LIFE; by disobeying the will of Christ. This
declaration was fulfilled at the destruction of Jerusalem by the
Romans, in respect to the temporal life of the Christians; and it will
be...
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Final warnings:...
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WHOSOEVER SHALL SEEK TO SAVE HIS LIFE SHALL LOSE IT; AND WHOSOEVER
SHALL LOSE HIS LIFE SHALL PRESERVE IT....
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GRACE IN VIEW OF OFFENSES
(vs.1-4)
We have seen the grace of God clearly and beautifully declared, yet
the world rejecting it. The Lord Jesus then spoke to His disciples.
What should be their attitud...
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20-37 The kingdom of God was among the Jews, or rather within some of
them. It was a spiritual kingdom, set up in the heart by the power of
Divine grace. Observe how it had been with sinners formerly...
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That is, whosoever, in disobedience to my command, shall use arts to
preserve his life, shall lose it; and whosoever, at my command, shall
be ready to lose it, shall preserve it, or if he loseth his b...
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Luke 17:33 Whoever G3739 G1437 seeks G2212 (G5661) save G4982 (G5658)
his G846 life G5590 lose...
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“Whoever will seek to gain his life will lose it, but whoever will
lose his life shall preserve it.”
The third illustration is between those who cling to their lives of
sin, like Lot's wife, and thus...
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CHRONOLOGY. We connect this discourse with that ending in Luke 17:10,
placing the whole in Perea, just before the final departure for
Jericho and Jerusalem. Chap, Luke 18:15-34, contains incidents to...
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Luke 17:33. SHALL SEEK TO GAIN, etc. There are two views of this
verse: (1.) The seeking to gain, takes place throughout the preceding
life, and the loss at the final catastrophe. (2.) The seeking to...
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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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SHALL PRESERVE IT
(ζωογονησε αυτην). Or save it alive. Here only in the
N.T. except 1 Timothy 6:13; Acts 7:19. It is a late word and common in
medical writers, to bring forth alive (ζωοσ, γενω) and...
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CONTENTS: Instruction in forgiveness. Parable of service. Ten lepers
healed. Second coming of Jesus foretold.
CHARACTERS: Jesus, disciples, ten lepers, Pharisees, Noah, Lot, Lot's
wife.
CONCLUSION:...
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Luke 17:1. _It is impossible but that offences will come._ Such as the
disciples had just seen, the contempt and derision evinced by the
pharisees; but woe to the man, and woe to the nation which shal...
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AS IT WAS IN THE TIME OF NOAH. This is similar to parts of Matthew
24:17-41. See notes there. REMEMBER LOT'S WIFE! By delaying and
looking back, as they were fleeing Sodom, she lost her life. Compare...
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_Shall lose it_
LIFE THROUGH DEATH
I. IT IS COMMONLY REQUIRED OF US TO SACRIFICE A LOWER GOOD, IN ORDER
TO GAIN A HIGHER. Not always, but almost always. The good things of
this world are of several s...
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LUKE—NOTE ON LUKE 17:33 See Luke 9:24 and note on Mark 8:35.
⇐...
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CHAPTER 17 VER. 5. _And the Apostles said to the Lord, Increase our
faith._ The Apostles said this, when, from their little faith, they
had been unable to cast out the devil from the lunatic. They the...
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_CRITICAL NOTES_
Luke 17:20. DEMANDED OF THE PHARISEES.—We can scarcely think that
they had any good end in view in asking this question; it is probable
they expected to get some answer which might be...
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EXPOSITION
LUKE 17:1
_The_ _Master_'_s teaching on the subject of the injury worked on the
souls of others by our sins. The disciples pray for an increase of
faith that they may be kept from such sin...
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Now He turns again to His disciples.
Then said he unto his disciples, It is impossible but that offenses
will come (Luke 17:1):
You cannot help if you're living in this world, you're going to have
of...
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John 12:25; Luke 9:24; Luke 9:25; Mark 8:35; Matthew 10:39;...
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Shall preserve [ζ ω ο γ ο ν η σ ε ι]. Only here and Acts
7:19. Originally to engender; thence to produce alive or endue with
life, and so to preserve alive. Wyc., shall quicken it....
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The sense of this and the following verses is, Yet as great as the
danger will be, do not seek to save your life by violating your
conscience: if you do, you will surely lose it: whereas if you should...
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In this hour, when judgment is come upon Jerusalem, Christ declares,
that whosoever shall take any unchristian course to preserve his life,
by denying him and his holy religion, he shall lose eternal...