Luke 10:2
Pray ye the Lord of the harvest, that he would thrust forth labourers — For God alone can do this: he alone can qualify and commission men for this work. Matthew 9:37.... [ Continue Reading ]
Pray ye the Lord of the harvest, that he would thrust forth labourers — For God alone can do this: he alone can qualify and commission men for this work. Matthew 9:37.... [ Continue Reading ]
Matthew 10:16.... [ Continue Reading ]
Salute no man by the way — The salutations usual among the Jews took up much time. But these had so much work to do in so short a space, that they had not a moment to spare.... [ Continue Reading ]
A son of peace — That is, one worthy of it.... [ Continue Reading ]
Matthew 10:11.... [ Continue Reading ]
The kingdom of God is at hand — Though ye will not receive it.... [ Continue Reading ]
Wo to thee, Chorazin — The same declaration Christ had made some time before. By repeating it now, he warns the seventy not to lose time by going to those cities. Matthew 11:21.... [ Continue Reading ]
Matthew 10:40; John 13:20.... [ Continue Reading ]
I beheld Satan — That is, when ye went forth, I saw the kingdom of Satan, which was highly exalted, swiftly and suddenly cast down.... [ Continue Reading ]
I give you power — That is, I continue it to you: and nothing shall hurt you — Neither the power, nor the subtilty of Satan.... [ Continue Reading ]
Rejoice not so much that the devils are subject to you, as that your names are written in heaven — Reader, so is thine, if thou art a true, believer. God grant it may never be blotted out!... [ Continue Reading ]
Lord of heaven and earth — In both of which thy kingdom stands, and that of Satan is destroyed. That thou hast hid these things — He rejoiced not in the destruction of the wise and prudent, but in the display of the riches of God's grace to others, in such a manner as reserves to Him the entire glor... [ Continue Reading ]
Who the Son is — Essentially one with the Father: who the Father is — How great, how wise, how good!... [ Continue Reading ]
Matthew 13:16.... [ Continue Reading ]
Matthew 22:35; Mark 12:28.... [ Continue Reading ]
Thou shalt love the Lord thy God — That is, thou shalt unite all the faculties of thy soul to render him the most intelligent and sincere, the most affectionate and resolute service. We may safely rest in this general sense of these important words, if we are not able to fix the particular meaning o... [ Continue Reading ]
Thou hast answered right; this do, and thou shalt live — Here is no irony, but a deep and weighty truth. He, and he alone, shall live for ever, who thus loves God and his neighbour in the present life.... [ Continue Reading ]
To justify himself — That is, to show he had done this. Leviticus 18:5.... [ Continue Reading ]
From Jerusalem to Jericho — The road from Jerusalem to Jericho (about eighteen miles from it) lay through desert and rocky places: so many robberies and murders were committed therein, that it was called the bloody way. Jericho was situated in the valley: hence the phrase of going down to it. About... [ Continue Reading ]
The common translation is, by chance — Which is full of gross improprieties. For if we speak strictly, there is no such thing in the universe as either chance or fortune. A certain priest came down that way, and passed by on the other side — And both he and the Levite no doubt could find an excuse f... [ Continue Reading ]
But a certain Samaritan came where he was — It was admirably well judged to represent the distress on the side of the Jew, and the mercy on that of the Samaritan. For the case being thus proposed, self interest would make the very scribe sensible, how amiable such a conduct was, and would lay him op... [ Continue Reading ]
Pouring in oil and wine — Which when well beaten together are one of the best balsams that can be applied to a fresh wound.... [ Continue Reading ]
Which of these was the neighbour to him that fell among the robbers — Which acted the part of a neighbour?... [ Continue Reading ]
And he said, He that showed mercy on him — He could not for shame say otherwise, though he thereby condemned himself and overthrew his own false notion of the neighbour to whom our love is due. Go and do thou in like manner — Let us go and do likewise, regarding every man as our neighbour who needs... [ Continue Reading ]
Martha was encumbered — The Greek word properly signifies to be drawn different ways at the same time, and admirably expresses the situation of a mind, surrounded (as Martha's then was) with so many objects of care, that it hardly knows which to attend to first.... [ Continue Reading ]
Martha, Martha — There is a peculiar spirit and tenderness in the repetition of the word: thou art careful, inwardly, and hurried, outwardly.... [ Continue Reading ]
Mary hath chosen the good part — To save her soul. Reader, hast thou?... [ Continue Reading ]