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Verse Luke 18:4. _HE SAID WITHIN HIMSELF_] How many actions which
appear _good_ have neither the _love of God_, nor _that_ of our
_neighbour_, but only _self-love_ of the basest kind, for their
princi...
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FOR A WHILE - Probably this means for a “considerable” time. It
was his duty to attend to the claims of justice, but this was long
delayed.
WITHIN HIMSELF - He thought, or came to a conclusion.
THOUG...
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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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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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UNWEARIED IN PRAYER (Luke 18:1-8)...
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WOULD NOT. did not wish to. App-102.
NOT. Greek. _ou._ App-105. afterward after (Greek. _meta._ App-104.)
these things.
WITHIN. to. Greek. _en._ App-104....
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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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_he said within himself_ The shamelessness with which he acknowledges
his own sin renders it still more aggravated.
_Though I fear not God_, _nor regard man_ -The creed of a powerful
atheist." Bengel...
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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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ΕἾΠΕΝ ἘΝ ἙΑΥΤΩ͂Ι. The shamelessness with which he
acknowledges his own sin renders it still more aggravated.
ΕἸ ΚΑῚ ΤῸΝ ΘΕῸΝ Κ.Τ.Λ. The οὐ coalesces with the
φοβοῦμαι and is unaffected by εἰ as in Lu...
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par
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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ΉΘΕΛΕΝ _impf. ind. act. от_ ΘΈΛΩ (G2309) желать,
хотеть. _Impf._ изображает его постоянный
отказ,
ΕΊ ΚΑ (G2532; G1487) если, также, даже если. С
этим оборотом условие трактуется как
не имеющее значен...
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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 he would not for a while: but afterward he said within himself,
Though I fear not God, nor regard man;
AND HE WOULD NOT FOR A WHILE: BUT AFTERWARD HE SAID WITHIN HIMSELF,
THOUGH I FEAR NOT GOD...
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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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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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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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HE WOULD NOT FOR A WHILE. — The judge was callous and dead to pity,
even for that extremest wretchedness. The pleadings of the widow were
simply an annoyance, which at first he bore with indifference....
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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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_The parable_. τὸν Θεόν, etc.: a proverbial description for a
thoroughly unprincipled man (examples from classics in Wetstein).
ἐντρεπόμενος, having respect for, with accusative, as in
late Greek; in...
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ἐπὶ χρόνον, for a considerable time. _Per multum tempus_
(Vulgate) may be too strong, but it is in the right direction. The
scope of the parable and the use of the word χρόνος in a
pregnant sense impl...
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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 he would not for a long time. The Almighty does not always hear us
as soon as we could wish, nor in the manner that seems best to us; but
if we are not always heard according to our desires, we al...
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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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(4) And he would not for a while: but afterward he said within
himself, Though I fear not God, nor regard man: (5) Yet because this
widow troubleth me, I will avenge her, lest by her continual coming...
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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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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 HE WOULD NOT FOR A WHILE,.... He would give no ear to her cries,
nor take her cause in hand, nor right her wrongs, and clear her of her
adversary:
BUT AFTERWARD HE SAID WITHIN HIMSELF; as he was...
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And he would not for a while: but afterward he said within himself,
Though I fear not God, nor regard man;
Ver. 4. _And he would not for awhile_] There is a passive injustice.
_Non faciendo nocens, s...
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_There was in a city a judge, which feared not God_, &c. This
magistrate, being governed by atheistical principles, had no
inducement from religion to do justice; at the same time, being very
powerful...
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AND HE WOULD NOT FOR A WHILE; BUT AFTERWARD HE SAID WITHIN HIMSELF,
THOUGH I FEAR NOT GOD NOR REGARD MAN,...
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THE IMPORTUNATE WIDOW.
The unjust judge:...
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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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Luke 18:4 And G2532 would G2309 (G5656) not G3756 for G1909 while
G5550 but G1161 afterward G5023...
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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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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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Luke 18:4. FOR A WHILE. Not necessarily, for a long time.
HE LAID WITHIN HIMSELF, etc. This soliloquy reveals the utterly
abandoned character of the man: he was not ashamed of his own
recklessness....
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HE WOULD NOT
(ουκ ηθελεν). Imperfect tense of continued refusal.THOUGH
(ε κα). Concerning sentence, not κα ε (even if)....
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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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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;_
«Not to faint» in their expectation of answers to their
supplications, and therefore give u...
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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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FOR A LONG TIME. The judge had no high motives, and she had no money
to bribe him. This is important, because it builds up to the "punch
line." YET BECAUSE OF ALL THE TROUBLE. She kept on "nagging" hi...
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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 18:1 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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Hebrews 4:12; Hebrews 4:13; Luke 12:17; Luke 16:3...