Expository Thoughts on the Gospels: Luke Vol. 2

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1. PRESENTBD TO
2. ^the indolent
3. On the allegorical interpretations of the Fathers and others . 15
4. On the words " he said unto them" 185
5. On the words " this man receiveth sinners" 178
6. On " clothed in purple and fared sumptuously" .... 217
7. On the expression " bear long" 258
8. On ruling " over ten cities" 805
9. On the words " two mites" 854
10. On the disciples being " slow to believe*' 604
11. The importance of the Lord's Prayer appears in the
12. It puts in his mouth the language of humility. The
13. Pharaoh, the dream is doubled unto Pharaoh, because the thing
14. The Greek word which we have rendered " daily," is only found
15. They are so rendered in Matt xiii. 19, and xiii. 38, and 1 John
16. Bible : "Ask, and ye shall receive ; seek, and ye shall
17. Bible is so peculiarly suited to that class of mankind which is al-
18. He answers us. He is our Father from heaven. In the former
19. It is fair to observe, that the broad promise at the end of the
20. LUKE, CHAP. Xr. n
21. But there are divisions of a very different kind, which
22. Others, however, think that He refers to certain persons among
23. Christ speaks of Satan as a "strong man." The
24. His own ministry. But the main lesson of his words,
25. and see
26. Just so there are degrees of glory in heaven, grace on earth, and
27. This is an evil generation : they seek
28. If this be so, all things are ours. We need no higher
29. He speaks of the men of Nineveh, a people who have
30. They declare, that to hear the word of G-od and keep it, is to be
31. In this, as well as in other passages, we should not fail to re-
32. But even when a man professes to value the light of
33. But when can it be truly said that a man's heart is
34. The marginal reading gives a more literal translation of the con-
35. Let us remember His boldness in speaking of the things
36. God. In the one direction they were rigidly careful to
37. It is clear that the washing spoken of cannot be a washing of the
38. See that your persons are first accepted, and then your works wiil
39. He exposes what men did not see in the Pharisees. In the case
40. In a word, they had one set of measures and weights
41. We learn, lastly, from our Lord's words, hoto grecU is
42. Church. No people can be more zealous than the Romish
43. Let the expression be compared with John i. 29, and the marginal
44. The words which begin this chapter are very striking
45. Christianity. Let us abhor all part-acting, and affecta-
46. Roman Catholic urged him to save his life by recanting
47. [An innv/merable fnidtUude^ The Greek word so translated
48. It is an injunction to the disciples to reserve and keep back
49. Let us not fail to notice that '^ fear" is an argument that ought
50. But for Christ to deny us at the last day will be ruin in
51. We are taught, lastly, in this passage, that Christiana
52. The "confessing Christ" in this verse must not be confined
53. Let it be noted, that the word we translate " him that blaa-
54. If And one of the company said
55. Let us mark, lastly, in these verses, how important it
56. Ministers of Christ would do well in modern times to mark our
57. Let it be noted, that this expression is one of those which show
58. God feedeth them." Now if the Maker of all things
59. We do so when we make it the chief business of our
60. I seen the righteous forsaken, nor his seed begging their
61. J. E. Smith's saying, " There is reason to suppose that the lily
62. Let us mark what a gracious word of consolation this
63. Let us mark, secondly, what a striking exhortation
64. Christ. He should also look and long for Christ's appear-
65. Pearce says, ' We may gather from this verse that it was the
66. The lesson is one which is greatly neeocJ in the
67. What are we doing ourselves with our religious knowl-
68. Parkhurst thinks that it means, " shall scourge with the utmost
69. Both in life and death He was carrying out the eternal
70. Spirit. They that are resolved to live for the world will
71. This is the opinion of Theophylact, Cyril, Bucer, and ChemnitiuflL
72. The effect of either of these words in the present verse, in-
73. Christ's intentional aim was to plant, propagate, and promote
74. The second thing which this passage teaches us, is the
75. The souls that are found without Christ shall be cast
76. Him an opportanitr of speaking to thein al> >ui their own
77. Above all, it is inseparably connected with lively faith iv
78. Christ more. He was a wise old saint who said, " I
79. Henry's, which is worth reading : " Some people do not like to
80. God for all we enjoy ; and that to whomsoever much is
81. It cumbereth the ground." There are myriads of respect-
82. God see in us year after year ? Let us take heed so to
83. The most probable view is that of Euthymius and Theophylact^
84. We know not who this woman was. Our Lord's say-
85. The Sabbath was made for man's benefit, and not fci
86. To regard the expression as only meaning a " dfkughter of Abra-
87. These are
88. Holy Ghost will never stand still. It will leaven tha
89. For another thing, I can see no force in the objection that
90. " Strive
91. Earth is the only place in God's creation where there is
92. His questioner was only the mouth-piece of many. He therefore
93. It appears to me very doubtful whether there ought to be 9
94. Get thee out, ana depart henoe : for
95. The will of poor hardened unbelieving man, and not the
96. Let it be noted that the literal translation of the Greek here
97. Arrian which justify the interpretation of the three days in a pro-
98. Erivileged city. And it seems to me both likely and natural that
99. Some think that our Lord's words are not yet fulfilled, and that
100. Bait. (CoCoss. iv. 6.) The perfection of our Lord^s con-
101. He must never forget that the eyes of the world are
102. Sunday excursion-trains on railways, Sunday deliveries
103. Whitby observes, " In this and all similar cases, there is an an-
104. But when we have said this, we must not forget that
105. Let us strive to live like men who believe in a resur-
106. He tells us how St. Louis of France used daily to feed a hundred
107. I cannot think that our Lord used it in deference to an opinion
108. We read that he who made the supper " sent his servant
109. But decent, plausible, smooth-spoken excuses slay their
110. Gill thinks it likely that the man was a Jew, who was imbue«l
111. Alford'a idea that in the words "compel them to come in,"
112. We learn secondly, from this passage, that those who
113. The necessity of "counting the cost" is enforced by a
114. The close imitation of our Lord's conduct in this passage
115. Dead Sea, and called bituminous salt, which was easily rendered
116. I can certainly testify, after sixten years' ministry, that by
117. We read these striking words, "Joy shall be in heaven
118. Gentile converts, for whom his Gospel was specially written. Ob*
119. Both in this verse, and the following verse, I adhere to the view
120. We see, firstly, in this parable, a man following the J^
121. Bon's history, in the most touching manner. We read that
122. Lord for receiving sinners. These are what I believe to be the
123. It probably answers to the beech mast, which swine eat anions;
124. Scripture to which we must turn for accurately-defined state-
125. The words of our Lord are often so deep that tihey will admit
126. Christ with themselves In all this they were precisely
127. Wrapped in their own self-righteousness they murmured
128. Alford says more gravely, " Would these festal employments have
129. It is just the counterpart of the " murmuring'' of the Scribes and
130. I»le8, There was a certain rich man,
131. But there is no proof that his master was pleased with
132. The words of our Lord are indeed weighty and solemn,
133. Anselm and others, think that the rich man means God, and
134. L— [/am resolved,] The Greek word so translated means literally,
135. He meant " riches which in the nature of things can never be got
136. But their affections are so chained down to earthly
137. What God calls evil, that man calls good !
138. Lord's remarks about money, and the necessity of faitlifulness in
139. IB,— [Whosoever putteth away his wife^ &c^ The conneijtion of this
140. The parable we have now read, in one respect stands
141. The Lord Jesus tells us that when the beggar died he
142. The change that will come over the minds of uncon-
143. The truth seems to me to lie between the two extremes. I see
144. Let it be noted, that we are not told that the rich man was an
145. Lord, in another place, '* to say, We have Abraham to our
146. Thou didst choose thy portion, and wast conteut with a mere
147. Christianity unlovely in the eyes of the world, by conduct
148. We are taught, for another thing, in these verses, the
149. Few passages ought to humble Christians so much, and
150. It includes all who cause Christ's people to stumble and be dis-

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