Geneva Study Bible Commentary
Luke 21:35
For as a snare shall it come (h) on all them that dwell on the face of the whole earth.
(h) On all men wherever they may be.
For as a snare shall it come (h) on all them that dwell on the face of the whole earth.
(h) On all men wherever they may be.
LUKE 21:35 w`j pagi,j\ evpeiseleu,setai ga,r {B} Does w`j pagi,j belong at the close of the preceding clause, or at the beginning of the following clause? The former alternative appears to be prefera...
Verse Luke 21:35. _THE FACE OF THE WHOLE EARTH._] Or, _of this whole land_. The land of Judea, on which these heavy judgments were to fall. See Luke 21:25; see also Luke 2:1....
The account of the destruction of Jerusalem contained in this chapter has been fully considered in the notes at Matthew 24. All that will be necessary here will be an explanation of a few words that d...
CHAPTER 21 _ 1. The Widow's Mite. (Luke 21:1)_ 2. The Destruction of the Temple Predicted. (Luke 21:5) 3. The Disciple's Question Concerning the Future. (Luke 21:7) 4. Things to Come. ...
THE ESCHATOLOGICAL DISCOURSE (Mark 13*, Matthew 24*). Lk. follows Mk., though with certain modifications and amplifications. In Mt., Mk. is blended with Q, but Lk. has already used the Q material in c...
And there will be signs in sun, and moon, and stars, and on earth the nations will be in distress and will not know what to do in the roaring of the sea and of the wave, while men's hearts will swoon...
THE PRECIOUS GIFT (Luke 21:1-4)...
AS. SNARE. Compare Ecclesiastes 9:12.Isaiah 24:17....
_as a snare_ Ecclesiastes 9:12 "as the fishes that are taken in an evil net, and as the birds that are caught in the snare, so are the sons of men snared in an evil time." There is the same metaphor i...
ὩΣ ΠΑΓΊΣ. Ecclesiastes 9:12; Romans 11:9; 1 Timothy 3:7. There is the same metaphor in Isaiah 24:17. The common metaphor is “as a thief
34, 35. ΑἸΦΝΊΔΙΟΣ … ὩΣ ΠΑΓΊΣ. ἐπ[εισ]ελεύσεται γάρ אBDL La[360] Ti[361] W. H[362] [360] La. Lachmann. [361] Ti. Tischendorf. [362] W. H. Westcott and Hort....
PARABLE OF THE FIG-TREE. DUTY OF WATCHFULNESS...
VER 34. AND TAKE HEED TO YOURSELVES, LEST AT ANY TIME YOUR HEARTS BE OVERCHARGED WITH SURFEITING, AND DRUNKENNESS, AND CARES OF THIS LIFE, AND SO THAT DAY COME UPON YOU UNAWARES. 35. FOR AS A SNARE SH...
ΠΑΓΊΣ (G3803) ловушка, западня, ΈΠΕΙΣΕΛΕΎΣΕΤΑΙ _fut. ind. med. (dep.) от_ ΈΠΕΙΣΈΡΧΟΜΑΙ (G1904) охватывать, ΚΑΘΗΜΈΝΟΥΣ _praes. med. (dep.) part. от_ ΚΆΘΗΜΑΙ (G2521) сидеть, пребывать. Part, в роли _s...
AS A SNARE— _As a net._ Heylin. The exhortations which are connected with this verse, limit the extent of the word _all_ to a _considerable_ number; for, were it to be taken otherwise, there could hav...
APPLEBURY'S COMMENTS _Christ's Coming at the End of the World Scripture_ Luke 21:33-36 Heaven and earth shall pass away: but my words shall not pass away. 34 But take heed to yourselves, lest haply...
BUTLER'S COMMENTS SECTION 4 Portends the Second Coming (Luke 21:33-38) 33Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will not pass away. 34 But take heed to yourselves lest your hearts be weighed...
And as some spake of the temple, how it was adorned with goodly stones and gifts, he said, Far the exposition, see the notes at Mark 13:1....
32 It is evident that all these things did not take place in that generation. Nor did the Lord say that they would. He simply said that they _ should_. He could not at that time reveal to them the fai...
THE WIDOW'S MITE. PROPHECY OF THE FALL OF JERUSALEM AND THE SECOND ADVENT 1-4. The widow's mite (Mark 12:41). See on Mk....
GREAT PROPHECY OF THE FALL OF JERUSALEM AND THE SECOND ADVENT (Matthew 24:1; Mark 13:1). See on Mt. St. Luke distinguishes these two events more clearly than the other evangelists (Luke 21:24). He als...
LUKE’S GOOD NEWS LUKE _HILDA BRIGHT_ CHAPTER 21 THE WIDOW’S *OFFERING 21:1-4 V1 Jesus looked up and watched the rich men. They dropped their money into the boxes in the *Temple. V2 He also saw a...
AS A SNARE... — The word is not found in the other Gospels, but is used several times by St. Paul (Romans 11:9; 1 Timothy 3:7; 1 Timothy 6:9; 2 Timoth
ὡς παγὶς, as a snare, joined to the foregoing clause in R.V [179] (“and that day come upon you suddenly as a snare”). Field objects that the verb following (ἐπεισελεύσεται) does not seem sufficiently...
_General exhortation to watchfulness_, peculiar to Lk.; each evangelist having his own epilogue. ἐν κραιπάλῃ καὶ μέθῃ : this seems to be a phrase similar to ἠχοῦς καὶ σάλου sound and wave for sounding...
THE NEED OF CONSTANT WATCHFULNESS Luke 21:29-38 The summer of the world is yet before us! _This_ is but the springtide, when the seeds are beginning to sprout, but the winds are cold. Ah, halcyon da...
Here we have another illustration of the fact that nothing could escape the Master's vigilance. Of the gifts being cast into the treasury He was the true Appraiser. He saw the widow as she cast in her...
CHAPTER 20 COMING OF THE LORD Matthew 24; Matthew 25; Mark 13; Luke 21. It is now in the afternoon, on Wednesday, preceding the arrest of our Savior about midnight the ensuin
Here, as in chap. 12, the life of the disciples is apparently to be prolonged till the Parousia. The reason is, that that period is ever to remain the point on which the believer's heart should fix (L...
THIRD CYCLE: THE PROPHECY OF THE DESTRUCTION OF JERUSALEM, LUKE 21:5-38. This piece contains a question put by the disciples (Luke 21:5-7), the discourse of Jesus in answer to their question (Luke 21:...
2. _The Discourse: Luke 21:8-36_. The four points treated by Jesus are: 1 _st._ The apparent signs, which must not be mistaken for true signs (Luke 21:8-19); 2 _d._ The true sign, and the destruction...
_The Application._ “ _When these things begin to come to pass, then look up, and lift up your heads; for your redemption draweth nigh._ 29. _And He spake to them a parable: Behold the fig-tree, and al...
And there shall be signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in the stars; and upon the earth distress of nations, with perplexity; the sea and the waves roaring; Men's hearts failing them for fear, and...
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...
The Lord's discourse in chapter 21 displays the character of the Gospel in a peculiar manner. The spirit of grace, in contrast with the Judaic spirit, is seen in the account of the poor widow's offeri...
FOR AS A SNARE SHALL IT COME,.... In which a bird is suddenly taken, and cannot get out again; the Persic version renders it, "as lightning and the splendour of the sun"; which break out at once, and...
For as a snare shall it come on all them that dwell on the face of the whole earth. Ver. 35. _As a snare_] See Ecclesiastes 9:12. _See Trapp on "_ Ecc 9:12 _"_...
_Take heed_, &c. Here our Lord cautions them against the security and sensuality, to which, if they should yield, they would unfit themselves for the trying times that were approaching, and would rend...
Warning to be ready for Christ's coming. Matthew 24:36-51....
A final warning:...
FOR AS A SNARE SHALL IT COME ON ALL THEM THAT DWELL ON THE FACE OF THE WHOLE EARTH....
THE WIDOW'S TWO MITES (vs.1-4) The first four verses are a continuation of the sublect of Chapter 20. If the scribes had no regard for widows, God takes full account of them. Rich men may donate larg...
29-38 Christ tells his disciples to observe the signs of the times, which they might judge by. He charges them to look upon the ruin of the Jewish nation as near. Yet this race and family of Abraham...
SEE POOLE ON "LUKE 21:34...
Luke 21:35 For G1063 come G1904 (G5695) as G5613 snare G3803 on G1909 all G3956 dwell G2521 ...
“But take heed to yourselves, lest it happen that your hearts be overcharged with surfeiting, and drunkenness, and cares of this life, and that day come on you suddenly as a snare, for so will it come...
CONCLUDING WORDS (21:29-38). Jesus now sums up the conclusions which result from what He has been saying. In His summing up He stresses the signs that will indicate the ‘nearness' of the Kingly Rule...
PROPHECY CONCERNING THE DESTRUCTION OF THE TEMPLE, THE SCATTERING OF THE JEWS, AND THE COMING OF THE SON OF MAN (21:5-36). This passage connects with the last in that the disciples begin to discuss th...
Luke 21:35. FOR IT SHALL COME IN UPON ALL, etc.. It is to be a universal surprise, a universal judgment. The idea of sitting securely is implied in the word dwell....
Luke 21:34-36. CONCLUDING WARNING. Peculiar to Luke in this form, though the same thoughts occur in Matthew 24:42-51; Mark 13:32-37....
The discourse of our Lord about the last times, is here connected most closely with the prediction of the destruction of the temple (Luke 21:5-6). There is no allusion to the mount of Olives, where, a...
Luke 21:1. And he looked up, and saw the rich men casting their gifts into the treasury. And he saw also a certain poor widow casting in thither two mites. And he said, Of a truth I say unto you, that...
CONTENTS: The widow's mite. Discourse on the course of the age and return of the Lord. CHARACTERS: Jesus, widow, disciples. CONCLUSION: As the time draws near when the Kingdom of God shall be fully e...
Luke 21:5. _Some spake of the temple, how it was adorned with goodly stones and gifts._ This conversation occurred as they were going out of the temple. Mark 13:1. On mount Olivet the Lord delivered t...
WATCH YOURSELVES! Only Luke gives this exact wording. See notes on Matthew 24:38-51....
_Surfeiting and drunkenness_ GLUTTONY AND DRUNKENNESS TO BE AVOIDED I. I will attempt to show you THE EVILS AND MISCHIEF OF THESE SINS WHICH OUR SAVIOUR HERE CAUTIONS US AGAINST. Be it known to you,...
LUKE—NOTE ON LUKE 21:35 The warnings of vv. Luke 21:34 and Luke 21:36 apply to people throughout the whole
Jesus tells about his return Matthew 24:36-51; Mark 13:32-37; Luke 21:34-36; Luke 12:39-46;...
_For as a snare shall it come on all them that dwell on the face of the whole earth._ As careless birds are taken craftily by snares, so in the day of judgment shall the men of pleasure be. 2 "As the...
CHAPTER 21 VER. 18. _But there shall not an hair of your head perish._ "Because," says S. Gregory, "what was said about death was hard, comfort is added at once, from the joy of the resurrection, when...
_CRITICAL NOTES_ Luke 21:7. AND THEY ASKED HIM.—St. Mark tells us (Luke 13:3) that the questioners were the apostles Peter, John, James and Andrew. The discourse that follows is related by the two fir...
EXPOSITION LUKE 21:1 _The_ _widow_'_s mite. _We find this little sketch only here and in St. Mark (Mark 12:41). The Master was sitting—resting, probably, after the effort of the great denunciation of...
And he looked up, and he saw the rich men casting their gifts into the treasury. And he saw also a certain poor widow casting in thither two mites (Luke 21:1-2). A mite was one-sixteenth of a penny. I...
Acts 17:26; Ecclesiastes 9:12; Genesis 7:4; Isaiah 24:17; Isaiah 24:18
As a snare. Join with the previous sentence : "come suddenly as a snare." Compare entangle, Matthew 22:15....
That sit — Careless and at ease....