Geneva Study Bible Commentary
Luke 17:3
(2) Take heed to yourselves: If thy brother trespass against thee, rebuke him; and if he repent, forgive him.
(2) Our reprehensions must be just and proceed from love and charity.
(2) Take heed to yourselves: If thy brother trespass against thee, rebuke him; and if he repent, forgive him.
(2) Our reprehensions must be just and proceed from love and charity.
LUKE 17:3 a`ma,rth| {A} In order to harmonize with ver. Luke 17:4 (cf. a similar passage at Matthew 18:15), the phrase...
Verse Luke 17:3. _IF THY BROTHER TRESPASS_] See the notes on Matthew 18:21; Matthew 18:22....
See the notes at Matthew 18:15, Matthew 18:21. “Trespass against thee.” Sin against thee, or does anything that gives you an offence or does you an injury. REBUKE - Reprove. Go and tell him his fault,...
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...
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...
LAWS OF THE CHRISTIAN LIFE (Luke 17:1-10)...
Jesus said to his disciples, "It is impossible that snares to sin should not arise; but woe to him through whom they do arise! It would be better for him if a millstone were hung around his neck and h...
IF. Marking. possible contingency (App-118. b). Not the same condition as in Luke 17:6. TRESPASS. sin. Greek. _hamartano._ App-128. As the Pharisees did. AGAINST. Greek. _eis._ App-104. REBUKE HIM....
_Take heed to yourselves_ The following lesson of forgiveness is added because the hard repellent spirit of aggressive Pharisaism and spiritual pride was of all others the most likely to cause offence...
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...
ΠΡΟΣΈΧΕΤΕ ἙΑΥΤΟΙ͂Σ. The following lesson of forgiveness is added because the hard repellent spirit of aggressive Pharisaism and spiritual pride was of all others the most likely to cause offences. It...
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...
VER 3. TAKE HEED TO YOURSELVES: IF YOUR BROTHER TRESPASS AGAINST YOU, REBUKE HIM; AND IF HE REPENT, FORGIVE HIM. 4. AND IF HE TRESPASS AGAINST YOU SEVEN TIMES IN A DAY, AND SEVEN TIMES IN A DAY TURN A...
ΠΡΟΣΈΧΕΤΕ _praes. imper. act. от_ ΠΡΟΣΈΧΩ (G4337) обращать внимание, остерегаться. _Praes. imper._ призывает к постоянному отношению, ΆΜΆΡΤΗ _aor. conj. act. от_ ΆΜΑΡΤΆΝΩ (G264) грешить. _Conj._ с ΈΆ...
TAKE HEED TO YOURSELVES:— Our Lord speaks here concerning a quarrelsome temper in his servants, but especially in the ministers and teachers of religion;insinuating,thatmanygrievous temptations to sin...
Butler's Comments SECTION 1 Be Good (Luke 17:1-10) 17 And he said to his disciples, Temptations to sin are sure to come; but woe to him by whom they come! 2It would be better for him if a millstone w...
Take heed to yourselves: If thy brother trespass against thee, rebuke him; and if he repent, forgive him. TAKE HEED TO YOURSELVES-GUARD YOUR SPIRIT: IF THY BROTHER TRESPASS AGAINST THEE, REBUKE HI...
1 The Lord is through with the unbelievers and now addresses His own disciples. He anticipates the fact that, even among themselves, there would be much to cause them to stumble and fall. He seeks to...
17:3 rebuke (f-10) _ Epitimao_ . so Mark 8:33 ; Luke 9:42 ; 2 Timothy 4:2 ....
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...
TRESPASS AGAINST THEE] RV 'sin.' 5, 6. ON FAITH AND ITS EFFECTS. See on Matthew 17:20; Matthew 21:21....
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....
TAKE HEED TO YOURSELVES. — The position of the words is remarkable, and they have nothing corresponding to them in the parallel passage in Matthew 18:21, where see Note. It is as though our Lord saw i...
8-27 CHAPTER 22 THE ETHICS OF THE GOSPEL. WHATEVER of truth there may be in the charge of "other-worldliness," as brought against the modern exponents of Christianity, such a charge could not even...
προσέχετε ἑ., take heed to yourselves (lest ye offend), a reminiscence of the original occasion of the discourse: ambition revealing itself in the disciple-circle....
_Concerning offences and forgiving of offences_ (_cf._ Matthew 18:6-7; Matthew 21:22). ἀνένδεκτον : here only in N.T. and hardly found in classics; with ἐστι = οὐκ ἐνδέχεται (Luke 13:33), it is not po...
“TAKE HEED TO YOURSELVES” Luke 17:1-10 The world is full of stumbling-blocks. Men are perpetually placing them in each other's way; and especially before little children, the simple and the weak. Le...
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...
FORGIVENESS INDEFINITE Luke 17:3-4. _“Take heed unto yourselves: If thy brother may sin, correct him: if he may repent, forgive him. And if he may sin against thee seven times a day, and turn unto the...
VERS. 3 AND 4. _The Pardon of Trespasses._ “ _If thy brother trespass against thee, rebuke him; and if he repent, forgive him._ 4. _And if he trespass against thee seven times in a day, and seven time...
7. _Various Sayings: Luke 17:1-10_. This piece contains four brief lessons, placed here without introduction, and between which it is impossible to establish a connection. Olshausen and Meyer have att...
(3) Take heed to yourselves: If thy brother trespass against thee, rebuke him; and if he repent, forgive him. (4) And if he trespass against thee seven times in a day, and seven times in a day turn ag...
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...
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...
TAKE HEED TO YOURSELVES..... Or to one another, that ye neither give, nor take offence. Take heed to your spirits, to your doctrines, walk, and conversation, that you give no offence to any, that you...
Take heed to yourselves: If thy brother trespass against thee, rebuke him; and if he repent, forgive him. Ver. 3. _See Trapp on "_ Mat 18:15 _"_...
_Take heed to yourselves_ That you may neither offend others, nor be offended by others, but that you may keep all your passions under proper regulation, and may be preserved from those resentments of...
Forgiveness. Matthew 18:15-22....
TAKE HEED TO YOURSELVES: IF THY BROTHER TRESPASS AGAINST THEE, REBUKE HIM; AND IF HE REPENT, FORGIVE HIM....
Concerning forgiveness:...
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...
1-10 It is no abatement of their guilt by whom an offence comes, nor will it lessen their punishment that offences will come. Faith in God's pardoning mercy, will enable us to get over the greatest d...
Ver. 3,4. Matthew hath something of the same tendency in MATTHEW 18:21,22, mentioning it as an answer to a question which Peter propounded to our Lord; but the circumstances of both relations are so d...
Clement of Alexandria The Instructor Book III If he sin against thee seven times in a day, and turn to thee the seventh time, and say, I repent, forgive him."[187] Tertullian Against Marcion Book IV...
Luke 17:3 heed G4337 (G5720) yourselves G1438 If G1161 G1437 your G4675 brother G80 sins G264 ...
THE NEED TO FORGIVE READILY (17:3-4). Jesus also stresses the need to forgive readily those who recognise their faults. Being unwilling readily to forgive could easily result in causing the weak who h...
THE DISCIPLES' RESPONSIBILITY TOWARDS GOD'S PEOPLE AND THE WARNING NOT TO GET ABOVE THEMSELVES BECAUSE OF WHAT THEY WILL ACCOMPLISH (17:1-10). Some have spoken here of ‘separate sayings' but there is...
PART of the discourse began in chap. Luke 15:4, and addressed to the disciples (Luke 17:1). Some of the thoughts are found in Matthew 18, but the latter part of the section is peculiar to Luke....
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 17:3. TAKE HEED TO YOURSELVES. Precisely this class needed this caution. For as they had been so lately sinners they would be most likely to give occasion of stumbling; and as new converts of thi...
IF THY BROTHER SIN (εαν αμαρτη). Second aorist (ingressive) subjunctive in condition of third class....
Luke 17:1. _Then said he unto the disciples, It is impossible but that offences will come: but woe unto him, through whom they come!_ Since the fall, we are so constituted that there are sure to be d...
Luke 17:1. _Then said he unto the disciples, It is impossible but that offences will come:_ We are so strangely made that even good men do not always agree, and there are so many bad men about that t...
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:...
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...
IF YOUR BROTHER SINS, REBUKE HIM. Note that a rebuke and forgiveness are both duties. Compare Galatians 6:1-2. See notes on Matthew 18:15-22....
_It is impossible but that offences will come_ WHERE SIN OCCURS, GOD CANNOT WISELY PREVENT IT The doctrine of this text is that sin, under the government of God, cannot be prevented. 1. When we say...
LUKE—NOTE ON LUKE 17:3 IF YOUR BROTHER SINS refers here to individual acts of sin. IF HE REPENTS, FORGIVE HIM... SEVEN TIMES. In Judaism it was considered honorable to forgive three times. (See note o...
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...
_CRITICAL NOTES_ Luke 17:1. THEN SAID HE.—Rather, “And he said” (R.V.). The previous discourse had been addressed to the Pharisees; we have now detached sayings addressed, probably on various occasion...
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...
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...
2 Chronicles 19:6; 2 Chronicles 19:7; 2 John 1:8; Deuteronomy 4:15;...
Rebuke. See on straitly charged, ch. 9 21....
Take heed to yourselves — That ye neither offend others, nor be offended by others. Matthew 18:15....
The doctrine of forgiving an offending brother, is pressed upon us with many forcible arguments in the New Testament, which speaks it to be. duty of indispensable necessity. This place is to understoo...