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Verse Luke 18:7. _AND SHALL NOT GOD AVENGE HIS OWN ELECT_] And will
not God the righteous Judge _do justice for his chosen_? Probably this
may refer to the cruel usage which his disciples had met wit...
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SHALL NOT GOD AVENGE ... - We are not to suppose that the character of
God is at all represented by this judge, or that “his” principles
of conduct are at all like those of the judge. This parable sho...
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CHAPTER 18
_ 1. The Unjust Judge and the Avenging of His Elect. (Luke 18:1)_
2. The Parable of the Pharisee and the Publican. (Luke 18:9)
3. The Little Children and the Required Lowliness. (Luke 18...
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PARABLE OF THE UNRIGHTEOUS JUDGE (Lk. only). There is a connexion with
the preceding sayings; the Advent may be delayed, yet the disciples
should incessantly pray for it it will surely come. The parab...
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UNWEARIED IN PRAYER (Luke 18:1-8)...
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Jesus spoke a parable to them to show that it is necessary always to
pray and not to lose heart. "There was a judge," he said, "in a town
who neither feared God nor respected man. There was a widow in...
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AND SHALL NOT GOD. And God, shall He not.
NOT. Greek. _ou me._ App-105.
ELECT: i.e. His own people.
HE BEAR LONG. He delayeth. The unjust judge delayed from selfish
indifference. The righteous God...
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_And shall not God_ The argument is simply _a fortiori._Even an unjust
and abandoned judge grants a just petition at last out of base motives
when it is often urged, to a defenceless person for whom h...
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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...
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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...
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Luke 18:1-8. THE DUTY OF URGENT PRAYER. THE UNJUST JUDGE...
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Ὁ ΔῈ ΘΕΌΣ. The argument is simply a _fortiori_. Even an
unjust and abandoned judge grants a just petition at last out of base
motives when it is often urged, to a defenceless person for whom he
cares...
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Ver 1. And he spoke a parable to them to this end, that men ought
always to pray, and not to faint; 2. Saying, There was in a city a
judge, which feared not God, neither regarded man: 3. And ther...
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ΠΟΙΉΣΗ _aor. conj. act. от_ ΠΟΙΈΩ (G4160) делать,
поступать. _Conj._ в вопросе с двойным
отр.
ΟΎΚ ΜΉ (G3756; G3361) выражает утверждение
(BD, 184).
ΈΚΔΊΚΗΣΙΣ (G1557) месть, с гл. ΠΟΙΈΩ,
"мстить" "на...
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DISCOURSE: 1557
THE IMPORTUNATE WIDOW
Luke 18:6. _And the Lord said, Hear what the unjust judge saith. And
shall not God avenge his own elect, which cry day and night unto him,
though he bear long wi...
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THOUGH HE BEAR LONG WITH THEM?— "Though he seem to refrain himself
for a while, to _hold his peace, and afflict them very sore."_ Elsner
would render this, _Shall he not avenge his own elect, who cry...
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BUTLER'S COMMENTS
SECTION 1
Pessimism (Luke 18:1-8)
18 And he told them a parable, to the effect that they ought always to
pray and not lose heart. 2He said, In a certain city there was a judge
who...
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And shall not God avenge his own elect, which cry day and night unto
him, though he bear long with them?
AND SHALL NOT GOD - not like that unprincipled man, but the
infinitely righteous "Judge of...
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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...
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18:7 long (c-20) As 'patience,' James 5:7 ,James 5:8 ....
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THE UNJUST JUDGE. THE PHARISEE AND THE PUBLICAN. THE RICH RULER
1-8. The Unjust Judge (peculiar to Lk).
There is a close connexion with what precedes. The mention of the
Second Advent leads Christ to...
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AVENGE HIS OWN ELECT] i.e. the members of His Church. Christ comforts
His disciples who are discouraged by the persecutions which are even
now threatening, by promising that God will visit their perse...
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LUKE’S GOOD NEWS
LUKE
_HILDA BRIGHT_
CHAPTER 18
TWO *PARABLES ABOUT PRAYER 18:1-14
1 THE WIDOW AND THE JUDGE 18:1-8
V1 Jesus told his *disciples a *parable. It showed that they should
continue...
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AND SHALL NOT GOD AVENGE HIS OWN ELECT? — There is at first
something which jars on us in this choice of an extreme instance of
human unrighteousness as a parable from which we are to learn the
nature...
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Luke 18:1
CHAPTER 11
CONCERNING PRAYER.
WHEN the Greeks called man ό ανθρωπος, or the "uplooking
one," they did but crystallize in a word what is a universal fact, the
religious instinct of humanit...
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οὐ μὴ ποιήσῃ, etc., will not God avenge, etc., the
question implying strongly that He will, but the emphasis is rendered
necessary by appearances to the contrary, which strongly try men's
faith in His...
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_The moral_. κριτὴς τ. ἀδικίας, _cf._
οἰκονόμον τ. ἀ., Luke 16:8....
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_The unjust judge_, in Lk. only....
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THE LESSON FOR DARK DAYS
Luke 18:1-8
There are three phases in our Lord's teaching about prayer-that of
Matthew 6:1-34; Luke 18:1-43, and the words of John 14:1-31; John
15:1-27.
In Luke 18:1-8 He e...
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Two parables on prayer are here given. The first insists on its
necessity as an alternative to fainting. The second reveals the
secrets of prevailing prayer, namely, humility and a deep sense of
need....
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And shall not God avenge his own elect, which cry day and night unto
him, though (d) he bear long with them?
(d) Though he seems slow in avenging the harm done to his own....
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CHAPTER 15
THE UNJUST JUDGE AND THE INDEFATIGABLE WIDOW
Luke 18:1-8. This paragraph on the Lord's second coming begins with
the twenty-second verse of the seventeenth chapter, and runs through
the ei...
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3 _d. Luke 18:1-8_. _The Widow and the Unjust Judge._
This parable is peculiar to Luke. The formula ἔλεγε δὲ
καί, “Furthermore, hear this also,” announces it as the
conclusion of the whole discourse...
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(6) And the Lord said, Hear what the unjust judge saith. (7) And shall
not God avenge his own elect, which cry day and night unto him, though
he bear long with them? (8) I tell you, That he will aveng...
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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...
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7._And shall not God avenge his elect? _That _judge, _whom Christ has
described to us as altogether desperate, as not only hardened against
the contemplation of God, but so entirely devoid of shame, t...
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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...
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AND SHALL NOT GOD AVENGE HIS OWN ELECT,.... Who are a select number, a
special people, whom he has loved with an everlasting love, so as of
his own sovereign good will and pleasure to choose in his So...
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And shall not God avenge his own elect, which cry day and night unto
him, though he bear long with them?
Ver. 7. _Though he bear long with them_] When they are at the utmost
under. When their enemies...
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_And the Lord said, Hear what the unjust judge saith_ “If the
repeated, importunate cries of the afflicted do at length make an
impression on the hearts even of men so wicked as to glory in their
impi...
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SHALL NOT GOD AVENGE HIS OWN ELECT; the argument is from the less to
the greater. If importunity had such power with an unjust judge, who
cared not for the poor widow's cause, how much more shall God,...
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GRACE PRODUCING PERSISTENT PRAYER
(vs.1-8)
This section connects with the subjects of chapter 17. We have seen in
the four sections of that chapter that the gospel of grace produces in
the believer...
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1-8 All God's people are praying people. Here earnest steadiness in
prayer for spiritual mercies is taught. The widow's earnestness
prevailed even with the unjust judge: she might fear lest it should...
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SEE POOLE ON "LUKE 18:2...
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Irenaeus Against Heresies Book IV
And as, in those times, vengeance came from God upon the Egyptians who
were subjecting Israel to unjust punishment, so is it now, the Lord
truly declaring, "And shal...
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Luke 18:7 And G1161 shall G1557 God G2316 not G3364 avenge G1557 own
G846 elect G1588 G4160 ...
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THE PARABLE OF THE UNRIGHTEOUS JUDGE (18:1-8).
As Luke 18:8 b makes clear, this parable looks directly back to Jesus'
prophecy which describes Himself as coming as the Son of Man in Luke
17:24. It is...
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“And shall not God give justice to (avenge, deal justly with the
case of) his elect, who cry to him day and night, and he is
longsuffering over them (or ‘even though he wait a long time over
them?') ”...
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Luke 18:7. AND SHALL NOT GOD, etc. Much more then, since God is not an
unjust judge, since the widow is not a forsaken one, but HIS ELECT,
will He hear importunate prayer. While this is applicable in...
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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...
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CONNECTION. This section belongs to the same period as the preceding
one; the first parable has a close connection of thought with the
predictions concerning the coming of the Son of man, while the se...
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AND HE IS LONGSUFFERING
(μακροθυμε). This present active indicative comes in
awkwardly after the aorist subjunctive ποιηση after ου μη,
but this part of the question is positive. Probably κα here me...
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Luke 18:6
I. What is the central thought of this parable? The answer to this
question is obvious. The central thought of the parable is the
advantage to be derived from importunity in prayer. And the...
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Luke 18:1. _And he spake a parable unto them to this end, that men
ought always to pray, and not to faint;_
«Not to faint» in their expectation of answers to their
supplications, and therefore give u...
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Luke 18:1. _And he spake a parable unto them to this end, that men
ought always to pray, and not to faint;_
An old writer says that many of Christ's parables need a key to unlock
them. Here, the key...
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Luke 18:1. _And he spake a parable unto them to this end, that men
ought always to pray, and not to faint;_
Especially, not to faint in prayer, not to become disheartened, or
weary, even if their pra...
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Luke 18:1. And he spake a parable unto them to this end, that men
ought always to pray, and not to faint; saying, There was in a city a
judge, which feared not God, neither regarded man: and there was...
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CONTENTS: Parable of the unjust judge. Parable of Pharisee and
publican. Little children blessed. Rich young ruler. Death and
resurrection foretold. Blind man healed near Jericho.
CHARACTERS: God, Je...
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Luke 18:1. _Men ought always to pray, and not to faint._ We have
continual wants, and God is always ready to hear. And as we must
always be thinking of good or of evil, it is best to set the Lord
alwa...
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LISTEN TO WHAT THE CORRUPT JUDGE SAID. This is the application of the
parable the "punch line," WILL GOD NOT JUDGE IN FAVOR OF HIS OWN
PEOPLE? If a corrupt and dishonest judge would finally act becaus...
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_Men ought always to pray, and not to faint_
THE STRANGE WEAPON-ALL-PRAYER
While Christian was in the Palace Beautiful, they showed him all the
remarkable objects in the armory, from the ox-goad of...
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LUKE—NOTE ON LUKE 18:7 If an unjust judge finally grants the
widow’s “prayer,” how much more will God hear the prayers of HIS
ELECT? Compare Luke 12:22; see also...
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LUKE—NOTE ON LUKE 18:1 This parable consists of a “lesser to
greater” argument (see note on 11:11–13).
⇐...
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CHAPTER 18 VER. 1. _He spake a parable unto them to the end that._
Christ had said, at the end of the last chapter, that the Apostles and
the faithful should suffer persecutions, in which they should...
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_CRITICAL NOTES_
Luke 18:1 AND HE SPAKE A PARABLE.—This parable is closely connected
with the preceding discourse about the second coming of Christ. The
widow is the Church; the judge is God, who long...
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EXPOSITION
LUKE 18:1
_The Lord speaks the two parables on prayer_—_the importunate widow,
and the Pharisee and publican._
LUKE 18:1
AND HE SPAKE A PARABLE UNTO THEM TO THIS END, THAT MEN OUGHT ALW...
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Shall we turn tonight to Luke, chapter 18.
Luke tells us that Jesus now
spoke a parable to them to this end (Luke 18:1),
In other words, the purpose of the parable was to encourage people to
pray an...
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1 Samuel 24:12; 1 Samuel 26:10; 1 Samuel 26:11; 1 Thessalonians 3:10;...
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And shall not God. The emphasis is on God. In the Greek order, "and
God, shall he not," etc.
Though he bear long with them. A very different passage, and
interpretations vary greatly.
(1.) The verb...
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And shall not God — The most just Judge, vindicate his own elect —
Preserve the Christians from all their adversaries, and in particular
save them out of the general destruction, and avenge them of th...