Expository Thoughts on the Gospels: Luke Vol. 1

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1. I folly allow. Bat after reading the exiflting attempts at
2. It only remains for me to say, that in the preparation of
3. Physician, a living Friend, a living Advocate at the right
4. 10. The centDiion'a aerrant at Capemamn healed 199
5. On '* turning hearts of fathers," &c 16
6. On the genealogy of Christ 105
7. On the expression, ** when himself was an hungered
8. Onthe expression, "justified God" 227
9. On the apparent discrepancy between the account of this
10. On the expression, " as Ellas did ** 336
11. EXPOSITORY THOUGHTS
12. Christ, the "Word," who "was made flesh." John i. 14. It
13. Priest's office, his lot was to bum in-
14. Elisabeth. We are told that '' they had no child." The
15. Lord of angels be P
16. Ghost, even from his mother's womb."
17. Let it be carefully noted that Gaoriel does not say that John
18. Moses, and HezeHali, and Jehosliaphat, will all show us
19. Paul are very solemn : " They could not enter in because
20. The woman who was honoured to be our Lord's mother,
21. But while we say this, we must in fairness admit,
22. Christ's sufferings. The day draws near when Christ shall
23. Mary, the babe leaped in her womb ;
24. Finally, we should observe in these verses, the higk
25. ^11, we shall see
26. All are not highly gifted. All are not inreachers. But
27. Mary had of Bible promises. She ends her hymn of praise
28. We 8ee in the oondttct of EUsabeth's ndghbonrs and
29. Let us take heed that affliction does us good, as it did
30. Israel ; for he hath visited and re-
31. His holy covenant,-'-<ind the oath which He sware to
32. Small as it seem now, it will be great and glorious one
33. Zacharias only means that Ghhst delivers His believing people
34. Let us ever rest our souls on the thought, that times
35. All through His life He was poor for our sakes, from the
36. Aware of tiliis, and expressly inserts the word "&rst," to show
37. There is no need of imagining and inventing miraculous cir-
38. Pharisees, an angel speared, proclaiming, ''unto you is
39. A more deep sense of the sinfulness and misery of sin,
40. May our spirit be like their's ! May we ever believe
41. Lord;
42. The Son of God came down from heaven to be not only
43. Though he were exempted from the ordinary conditions of our
44. Srcligion was at a very low ebb in Israel when Christ
45. Pharisees of Simeon's time, if they had sat at his feet,
46. Saul who persecuted Him was converted, there was
47. Mary, as cutting and heart-piercing as a sword. This was spe-
48. God with prayer night and day." She was continually
49. Let us observe, lastly, in these verses, what clear proof
50. Benjamin, and with them returned from Bahylon after the
51. I must be about my Father' s business ?
52. Rachel did to Jacob, '^Whatsoever Qod hath said unto
53. His residence at Nazareth, and not a single isolated act,
54. That God is able of these stones to
55. We should mark, secondly, how plainly John speaks to
56. The strong hold that this notion has obtained on the
57. In them they rejoice and yain-gloriously boast, while they
58. When hearers of the Gospel begin " to muse in their
59. All these are privileges
60. Catholic writers say, between his baptism and Christian baptism,
61. Naason,
62. We see, secondly^ in this passage, the close cannectum
63. We see, fourthly, in these verses, a marvellous proclam-
64. A few simple remarks must suffice. Those who wish to study
65. ^Why did St. Luke put the name here?
66. Son of God, cast thyself down from
67. Let all true Christians take comfort in the thought
68. Let us learn from this single fact, if we learn nothing
69. Tslley. Josephus descnhes the place, and says, that "if any
70. And when he had opened the book,
71. Gospel the marvelloas fig;ares of the passage were about
72. Thbee great lessons stand out on the face of this pas-
73. It wounded their pride and self-conceit. It taught them
74. US to show the world that there are such things as fsdth
75. And when the devil had thrown him
76. Oennesaret,
77. Master's conduct on this occasion. We are not to wait
78. Christ the chief of sinners may approadi God with
79. There. may be truth in all this. But it needs to be cautiously
80. At once our Lord replies, " I will : be thou dean."
81. Holy and undefiled as He was. He would not allow the
82. St. Luke*s Gospel was especially designed, needed instruction in
83. Practice is not secured without diligence and study, by
84. HiV speaking most graciously to the poor sufiPerer who
85. Pharisees and doctors of the law ? Clearly not The truth is,
86. But havmg himself purchased the tolls and dues for a given
87. We must make up our minds to see differences of this
88. Let us remember daily, that the weakest of Christ's
89. Him on this question, His expression would doubtless remind
90. Old Testament, will find at last, whether he means it or not,
91. Once more we find Him coming into collision with the vain
92. But there are other plain texts in Scripture which prove
93. These things should be carefiiUy noted. Herein lies the great
94. ^the good fish and the bad, —
95. Lord lived. Yet, after our Lord's ascension, none seems to
96. Who are the persons to whom our Lord says, " Woe
97. Lord's declarations. Whatever men may please to think,
98. The promises, of course, in one case, as well as the threaten-
99. Church of Christ, if its Master's precepts in this passage
100. On the other hand, it is evident that our Lord condemns every
101. Scriptural qualifications. If no man is to teach or preach
102. When a man's tongue is generally wrong, it is ahsurd, no
103. I may remark that the view I have maintained of this text is
104. Let us settle it in our minds, that no sin is so foolish
105. There is no loss like the loss of a soul !
106. Christian practice, and the certain ruin to which such profession
107. That he was worthy for whom he
108. Saviour. If there is one feature in His character more
109. Saviour pleading for us at God's right hand. But have
110. Baptist, nor in the case of Cornelius in the Acts, do we find the
111. In short an entire sameness in the stories told by two separate
112. Nain ; and many of his disciples went
113. Let us wage a ceaseless warfare against it. It is ''the
114. Christ commands, there can be no refusal or escape. All
115. Lord raising a dead person to life. The daughter of Jairus was
116. Let it be observed, that we have no record given to us of any-
117. Srisonment, together with the fact that our Lord did nothing to
118. To whom does our Lord refer, in saying this ? We only know
119. Some think, that the " least in the kingdom," means the least
120. The word means always, "To declare, count, or reckon just."
121. What they really disliked was, not so much God's minis-
122. [Eating and drinking.] The utmost that can be made of this
123. Pharisee's house, brought an alabas-
124. Himself says, "Thou gavest me no water for my feet : —
125. Magdalene had ever been "a woman that was a sinner*
126. Lightfoot remarks, that our Lord does not say, " She hath
127. Time is undoubtedly short. But much is to be done
128. Let the recollection of these women encourage all the
129. Our lives are continually showing whose we are and whom
130. Hammond, in commenting on this place, thinks that Phcehe,
131. From him come wandering thoughts and roving imagi-
132. Faitliful ministers should always denounce sin most plainly,
133. This is mv blood."
134. Christ, and without hope. (Ephes. ii. 12.) Can we do
135. Christianity. All men and women who are of this cha-
136. Some think that the words point to the day of judgment,
137. a human
138. ^who brought the locusts
139. He wiU see Jesus near him in the darkest hour, and blue
140. Z\.—{Into the deep.] The "deep" here means the abyss or pit of
141. It is hardly necessary to remark that there is no contradiction
142. Hundreds of churches, and parishes, and families, are at
143. Him, that He may be honoured in private life as well as
144. The leper, mentioned in St. Mark i. 43, was strictly
145. Let us see in the case of the woman here described,
146. For ever let it be graven on our hearts that faith in
147. Another is the centuiion whose servant was healed. (John vii. 2.)
148. Christ. It signifies liteially, *' one who is set over anything to
149. They who were not skilled in the language of signs and figures
150. Let us observe, that the commimon to the apostles con-

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