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Luke 17:33
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 shall preserve it.
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 ...
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....
See the notes at Matthew 10:39....
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)...
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...
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....
_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...
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...
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...
THE ‘WHEN?’ AND ‘WHERE?’ OF THE KINGDOM OF GOD...
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 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...
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.)...
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...
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;...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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....
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...
_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...
_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...
“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...
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...
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...
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...
“ _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...
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...
(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:...
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...
WHOSOEVER SHALL SEEK TO SAVE HIS LIFE,.... By fleeing to some strong hold, or by continuing in the metropolis, and strongest city in the nation, Jerusalem: SHALL LOSE IT: there he will be in the grea...
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 _"_...
_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;...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Luke 17:33 Whoever G3739 G1437 seeks G2212 (G5661) save G4982 (G5658) his G846 life G5590 lose...
“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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
_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...
LUKE—NOTE ON LUKE 17:33 See Luke 9:24 and note on Mark 8:35. ⇐...
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 17:20. 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...
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...
John 12:25; Luke 9:24; Luke 9:25; Mark 8:35; Matthew 10:39;...
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....
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...
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...