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Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

Luke 14

Luke 14:1

LUKE CHAPTER 4 LUKE 14:1 Christ healeth the dropsy on the sabbath, and justifieth his doing so. LUKE 14:7 He recommends humility, LUKE 14:12 and hospitality toward the poor. LUKE 14:15 The parable of the marriage supper, and of the guests, who making excuses were excluded, and their rooms filled by... [ Continue Reading ]

Luke 14:7

A _parable_ here hath somewhat a different signification from what it more ordinarily hath in the evangelists: it usually signifies a similitude; here it signifies either a wise saying, or a dark saying, by which he intended something further than in the parable he expressed, which he expounds, LUKE... [ Continue Reading ]

Luke 14:8

Ver. 8-11. Two or three moral instructions we have in this parable. 1. That the law of Christ justifieth none in any rudeness and incivility. 2. That the disciples of Christ ought to have a regard to their reputation, to do nothing they may be ashamed of. 3. That it is according to the will of God... [ Continue Reading ]

Luke 14:12

Ver. 12-14. Many things are delivered in Scripture in the form of an absolute and universal prohibition, which must not be so understood, amongst which this is one instance. None must think that our Saviour doth here absolutely or universally forbid our invitations of our brethren, or kinsmen, or ri... [ Continue Reading ]

Luke 14:15

Whether this person had any gross conceptions of the kingdom of God, as a state of external happiness, and sensible satisfactions, I cannot say (though it be the opinion of some valuable interpreters): he might mean no more than, Blessed is he that shall come to heaven, and enjoy the celestial pleas... [ Continue Reading ]

Luke 14:16

OLBGrk; Ver. 16-24. We met with the same parable MATTHEW 22:1, where we had the most of what is here, and really other considerable circumstances: SEE POOLE ON "MATTHEW 22:1" and following verses to MATTHEW 2:10. Christ's primary intention by this parable was certainly to foretell the rejection of t... [ Continue Reading ]

Luke 14:25

Ver. 25-27. We met with much the same MATTHEW 10:37,38. The sum of the words is, That no man can be a true disciple of Christ, that giveth any friend, or any thing, a preference to Christ in the affections of his heart. Christ must be loved above all. It appeareth that the words must not be interpre... [ Continue Reading ]

Luke 14:28

Ver. 28-33. Our Lord had in the parable of the supper showed what those things are which keep men from embracing the call of the gospel, to wit, their hearts too much adherence to and embracing of sensible and sensual things. For the meeting of which temptation he had told them, LUKE 14:25, that if... [ Continue Reading ]

Luke 14:34

Ver. 34,35. SEE POOLE ON "MATTHEW 5:13". SEE POOLE ON "MARK 9:50", where we met with the most of what we have in these verses. By SALT in this place our Saviour seemeth to mean a Christian life and profession. It is a good, a noble, a great thing to be a Christian: but one that is so in an outward p... [ Continue Reading ]

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