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Verse 48. _SHALL BE BEATEN WITH FEW_] For petty offences the Jews in
many cases inflicted so few as _four, five_, and _six_ stripes. See
examples in _Lightfoot_.
From this and the preceding verse we...
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FEW STRIPES - The Jews never inflicted more than forty stripes for one
offence, Deuteronomy 25:3. For smaller offences they inflicted only
four, five, six, etc., according to the nature of the crime....
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CHAPTER 12
_ 1. Warning Against Hypocrisy. (Luke 12:1)_
2. Encouragements. (Luke 12:4)
3. Warning Against Covetousness. (Luke 12:15)
4. Warning Against Anxiety. ...
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THE FAITHFUL STEWARD (Matthew 24:45 *). Luke 12:39 is peculiar to Lk.
The answer to Peter's question is that the injunctions to watchfulness
are particularly applicable to the Twelve. This is emphasiz...
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"Let your loins be girt and your lamps burning. Be like men who are
waiting for their master to come home from the wedding feast, so that,
when he comes and knocks, they will open to him immediately....
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THE CREED OF COURAGE AND OF TRUST (Luke 12:1-12)...
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GIVEN. committed.
OF. from. Greek. _para._ 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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_that knew not_ i.e. that knew not fully (Jonah 4:11; 1 Timothy 1:13),
for there is no such thing as absolute moral ignorance (Romans 1:20;
Romans 2:14
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Ὁ ΔῈ ΜῊ ΓΝΟΎΣ. He that knew not _fully_ (Jonah 4:11; 1
Timothy 1:13), for there is no such thing as absolute moral ignorance
(Romans 1:20; Roman
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LESSONS OF TRUSTFULNESS (22–32), ALMSGIVING (33, 34), AND FAITHFUL
WATCHFULNESS (35–48). THE SEARCHING EFFECT OF CHRIST’S WORK
(49–53)...
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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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VER 47. AND THAT SERVANT, WHICH KNEW HIS LORD'S WILL, AND PREPARED NOT
HIMSELF, NEITHER DID ACCORDING TO HIS WILL, SHALL BE BEATEN WITH MANY
STRIPES. 48. BUT HE THAT KNEW NOT, AND DID COMMIT THINGS WO...
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ΟΛΊΓΟΣ (G3641) меньший. _Adj._ с _subst._ ("удары")
при основном гл. (BD, 85). Наказание того,
кто грешил по неведению, является
менее суровым (Stein),
ΈΔΌΘΗ _aor. ind. pass._, _см._ Luke 12:32. Бого...
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DISCOURSE: 1530
PUNISHMENT PROPORTIONED TO MEN’S DESERT
Luke 12:47. That servant, which knew his Lord’s will, and prepared
not himself, neither did according to his will, shall be beaten with
many str...
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AND THAT SERVANT WHICH KNEW HIS LORD'S WILL, &C.— Lest the
consideration of the strictness of the account, and the greatness of
the punishment described in the parable, might terrify men of honest
dis...
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BUTLER'S COMMENTS
SECTION 3
Action as Alertness (Luke 12:35-48)
35 Let your loins be girded and your lamps burning, 36and be like men
who are waiting for their master to come home from the marriage...
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But he that knew not, and did commit things worthy of stripes, shall
be beaten with few stripes. For unto whomsoever much is given, of him
shall be much required: and to whom men have committed much,...
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39 As most of the houses in Palestine were built of sun-dried clay, or
adobe, a thief could best effect an entrance by digging his way
through the walls. They literally burrowed their way into a house...
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HE THAT KNEW NOT] 'The reference is to the future pastors of the
Church. “He that knew not,” will still be punished, for he could
have known; but not punished so much as the other, for the other was
p...
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EXHORTATION TO VIGILANCE. The greater part of it appears also (and
most appropriately) in Matthew 24. The apostles and other ministers of
the word are chiefly addressed, though there is a lesson for a...
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THE LEAVEN OF THE PHARISEES. THE RICH FOOL
1-12. Jesus warns His followers against Pharisaic hypocrisy, and
exhorts them to be courageous in face of opposition. This speech is
not unsuitable to the co...
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LUKE’S GOOD NEWS
LUKE
_HILDA BRIGHT_
CHAPTER 12
JESUS WARNS AND ENCOURAGES HIS *DISCIPLES 12:1-12
1 WARNING ABOUT THE FALSE LIVES OF THE *PHARISEES 12:1-3
V1 Thousands of people had gathered. T...
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HE THAT KNEW NOT. — The words manifest the tenderness of a
considerate equity, like that which uttered itself in our Lord’s
words as to Sodom and Tyre and Sidon, in Luke 10:12. Man’s knowledge
is the...
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_Degrees of guilt and punishment_, in Lk. only, and serving as an
apology for the severity of the punishment as described in Luke 12:46.
That punishment presupposes anger. The statement now made is to...
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ὁ δὲ μὴ γνοὺς : the opposite case is that of one who
does not _know_. What he would do if he did know is another question;
but it is not to be gratuitously supposed that he would neglect his
duty utte...
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EVER ON THE WATCH
Luke 12:35-48
The Lord leads our thoughts on to His advent, when He will call His
servants to account. The day may pass into the evening, the evening
into the night, and the night m...
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Knowing that the enmity of the rulers against Him would proceed also
against His disciples, He told them not to be afraid of those who kill
the body, remembering ever their Father's care, as revealed...
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But he that knew not, and did commit things worthy of stripes, shall
be beaten with few [stripes]. For unto whomsoever much is given, of
him shall be much required: and to whom men have committed much...
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_Shall be beaten with few stripes. Ignorance, when it proceeds from a
person's own fault, doth not excuse, but only diminisheth the fault.
(Witham)_...
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SOLICITUDE
Luke 12:22-31. This item of our Savior's discourse is so identical
with a paragraph in His Sermon on the Mount (Matthew 6), that I
forbear quotation, the substantial repetition of the Great...
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_The Parable of the Two Stewards._
The magnificence of the promise, Luke 12:37, has struck Peter; he asks
himself if such a recompense is intended for all the subjects of the
Messiah, or ought not rat...
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4 _th. To the Apostles: Luke 12:41-53_.
Up till now, Jesus had been speaking to all believers; from this
point, on occasion of a question put by Peter, He addresses the
apostles in particular, and rem...
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VERS. 47 AND 48. _The Principle._ “ _And that servant which knew his
lord's will, and prepared nothing, neither did according to his will,
shall be beaten with many stripes._ 48. _But he that knew not...
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(32) Fear not little flock; for it is your Father's good pleasure to
give you the kingdom. (33) Sell that ye have, and give alms: provide
yourselves bags which wax not old, a treasure in the heavens t...
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The ninth chapter opens with the mission not the setting apart, but
the circuit of the twelve sent out by the Lord, who therein was
working after a fresh sort. He communicates power in grace to men,
c...
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48._To whomsoever much hath been given. _Christ shows by another
circumstance, that the more highly favored disciples ought to be
visited with severer punishment, if they despise their calling, and
ab...
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chapter 12 puts the disciples into this place of testimony by the
power of the Holy Ghost, and with the world opposed to them, after the
Lord's departure. It is the word and the Holy Ghost, instead of...
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BUT HE THAT KNEW NOT,.... His Lord's will; either not having the means
of knowing it, as the Heathens; or through neglect of them, not
attending to them, and making use of them, which is the case of m...
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_And that servant which knew his lord's will_, &c. Lest the
consideration of the strictness of the account, and the greatness of
the punishment, described in the parable, might terrify men of honest
d...
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BUT HE THAT KNEW NOT, AND DID COMMIT THINGS WORTHY OF STRIPES, SHALL
BE BEATEN WITH FEW STRIPES. FOR UNTO WHOMSOEVER MUCH IS GIVEN, OF HIM
SHALL BE MUCH REQUIRED; AND TO WHOM MEN HAVE COMMITTED MUCH,...
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Christ's summary:...
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THE PEOPLE WARNED AGAINST FALSE LEADERS
(vs.1-12)
At a time when the crowd was extremely large, the Lord addressed His
disciples "first of all," warning them to beware of the leaven of the
Pharisees,...
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41-53 All are to take to themselves what Christ says in his word, and
to inquire concerning it. No one is left so ignorant as not to know
many things to be wrong which he does, and many things to be...
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SEE POOLE ON "LUKE 12:42...
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First Apology of Justin
But if you pay no regard to our prayers and frank explanations, we
shall suffer no loss, since we believe (or rather, indeed, are
persuaded) that every man will suffer punishm...
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Luke 12:48 But G1161 not G3361 know G1097 (G5631) yet G1161 committed
G4160 (G5660) deserving G514 stripes...
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“But he who did not know, and did things worthy of stripes, will be
beaten with few stripes.”
On the other hand the servant who did not know in depth what his lord
required, presumably because he was...
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THE PARABLE OF THE SERVANTS GOOD AND BAD (12:42-48).
In reply to Peter's question Jesus tells a parable about an individual
steward (although it expands to cover all level of servants at the
end). It...
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CONTENTS. A continuation of the discourse. Luke 12:35-48 contain
exhortations to _watchfulness;_ the difference between the faithful
and unfaithful servant suggests a difficulty in the way of
faithful...
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Luke 12:35-48. EXHORTATIONS TO WATCHFULNESS. The connection is with
Luke 12:32: ‘It is your Father's good pleasure to give you the
kingdom,' let that free you from anxiety; but let it be the motive to...
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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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TO WHOMSOEVER MUCH IS GIVEN
(παντ δε ω εδοθη πολυ). Here is inverse attraction
from ο to παντ (Robertson, _Grammar_, pp. 767f.). Note παρ'
αυτου (from him) without any regard to παντ.THEY COMMIT...
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Luke 12:35. Let your loins be girded about, and your lights burning;
and ye yourselves like unto men that wait for their lord, when he will
return from the wedding; that when he cometh and knocketh, t...
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CONTENTS: Jesus warns of leaven of the Pharisees. Parable of the rich
fool. Parable of the second coming. Parable of the steward and his
servants. Christ, the divider of men.
CHARACTERS: Jesus, disci...
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Luke 12:1. _There were gathered together an innumerable multitude of
people._ The Greek is myriads, or ten thousands of people.
Luke 12:5. _Power to cast into hell._ The Greek is Gehenna, as on
Isaiah...
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THE SERVANT WHO KNOWS. This servant deliberately sins. BUT THE SERVANT
WHO DOES NOT KNOW. This servant sins through ignorance. This parable
points especially to those who listen to Jesus and were plea...
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_For unto whomsoever much is given_
THE LAW OF ACCOUNTABILITY
_-_These words are rendered as a reason why those servants that know
their master’s will are beaten with more stripes than those that
kn...
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LUKE—NOTE ON LUKE 12:41 ARE YOU TELLING THIS PARABLE FOR US OR FOR
ALL? Jesus does not actually answer Peter’s question, which would
seem to indicate that the parable was meant for “everyone” to whom...
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CHAPTER 12 VER. 1. _In the mean time when there were gathered together
an innumerable multitude of people._ The Greek has "the myriads of the
multitude." A myriad contains exactly ten thousand, and is...
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_But he that knew not, and did things worthy of stripes shall be
beaten with few stripes._ That is, with fewer than he who knew his
lord's will, according to the measure as well of his ignorance as of...
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VER. 42. _And the Lord said, Who then is that faithful and wise
steward whom his lord shall set over his household to give them their
portion of food in due season?_ Christ replied to Peter that He sp...
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_CRITICAL NOTES_
Luke 12:41. THEN PETER SAID.—The high reward promised, rather than
the duty enjoined, was in Peter’s thoughts, and involved a certain
measure of danger against which Christ warns him....
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EXPOSITION
LUKE 12:1
_The Lord_,_ after leaving the Pharisee_'_s house_,_ speaks at great
length to a numerous crowd waiting for him_,_ addressing his words
principally to his own disciples. _The for...
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Shall we turn in our Bibles to Luke's gospel, chapter 12.
We are dealing with the final month in the ministry of Jesus. He has
returned to Jerusalem. He will soon be leaving Jerusalem to go down to
th...
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1 Corinthians 9:17; 1 Corinthians 9:18; 1 Timothy 1:11; 1 Timothy
1:13;...
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Stripes. See on ch. Luke 10:30.
Commit. See on set before, ch. 9 16....