Yet when the Son of man cometh, will he find faith upon earth — Yet notwithstanding all the instances both of his long suffering and of his justice, whenever he shall remarkably appear, against their enemies in this age or in after ages, how few true believers will be found upon earth!
Verse Luke 18:8. _HE WILL AVENGE THEM SPEEDILY._] Or, _He will do them_ _justice speedily _- εν ταχει, _instantly, in a trice_. 1. Because he has _promised_ it; and 2. Because he is _inclined_ to do...
SPEEDILY - Suddenly, unexpectedly. He will surely vindicate them, and that at a time, perhaps, when they were nearly ready to give over and to sink into despair. This may refer to the deliverance of t...
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...
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...
UNWEARIED IN PRAYER (Luke 18:1-8)...
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...
HE WILL AVENGE. He will perform the avenging (Greek. _ekdikesis._ Compare Luke 18:5) of. Compare Psalms 9:12; Isaiah 63:4.Hebrews 10:37. the So
_he will avenge them_ Isaiah 63:4; Psalms 9:12, "When He maketh inquisition for blood, He remembereth them, He forgetteth not the cry of the humble." "Yet a little while," Hebrews 10:37;...
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...
ΠΟΙΉΣΕΙ ΤῊΝ ἘΚΔΊΚΗΣΙΝ ΑΥ̓ΤΩ͂Ν. Isaiah 63:4; Psalms 9:12, “When He maketh inquisition for blood, He remembereth them, He forgetteth not the cry of the humble.” “Yet a little while,” Hebrews 10:37;...
Luke 18:1-8. THE DUTY OF URGENT PRAYER. THE UNJUST JUDGE...
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...
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...
ΠΟΙΉΣΕΙ _fut. ind. act., см._ Luke 18:7. ΈΛΘΏΝ _aor. act. part. (temp.) от_ ΈΡΧΟΜΑΙ, _см._ Luke 18:3....
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...
HE WILL AVENGE THEM SPEEDILY.— Rather _suddenly;_ for so the original εν ταχει, may signify. Besides, scripture and experience teach, that in most cases punishment is not speedily executed against the...
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...
I tell you that he will avenge them speedily. Nevertheless when the Son of man cometh, shall he find faith on the earth? I TELL YOU, HE WILL AVENGE THEM SPEEDILY, [ en (G1722) tachei (G5034)]. As w...
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...
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...
SPEEDILY] cp. Revelation 22:20; 2 Peter 3:8. Christ's coming, though it may seem to be long delayed, will be as speedy as the scheme of God's providence, which takes account of the needs of the whole...
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...
WHEN THE SON OF MAN COMETH, SHALL HE FIND FAITH? — The question implies, it is obvious, an answer in the negative. When St. Luke wrote his Gospel, men were witnessing a primary, though partial, fulfil...
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...
_The moral_. κριτὴς τ. ἀδικίας, _cf._ οἰκονόμον τ. ἀ., Luke 16:8....
ἐν τάχει, quickly, quite compatible with delay; quickly when the hour comes = suddenly. πλὴν, yet; in spite of the alleged speed, the time will seem so long that, etc. ἆρα, so to be taken (not ἄρα), a...
_The unjust judge_, in Lk. only....
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...
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....
In the Greek, although he suffer for the present the elect to be oppressed. (Bible de Vence) --- Our divine Redeemer adds, this, to shew that faith must necessarily accompany our prayers. For whosoeve...
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...
OUR LORD'S SECOND COMING Luke 17:22; Luke 18:8. _“And He said to the disciples, The days will come when you will desire to see one of the days of the Son of man, and shall not see it.”_ Having answere...
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...
(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...
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...
_RELIGIOUS UNSETTLEMENT_ ‘When the Son of Man cometh, shall He find faith on the earth?’ Luke 18:8 The significance of this question is best seen in the Revised Version, where it is given, ‘When th...
8._When the Son of man shall come. _By these words Christ informs us that there will be no reason to wonder if men shall afterwards sink under their calamities: it will be because they neglect the tru...
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...
I TELL YOU THAT HE WILL AVENGE THEM SPEEDILY,.... As he did in a few years after the death of Christ, when God's elect among the Jews were singled out, and gathered in from them, and were delivered fr...
I tell you that he will avenge them speedily. Nevertheless when the Son of man cometh, shall he find faith on the earth? Ver. 8. _Shall he find faith upon earth?_] God often stays so long till the sa...
_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...
HE WILL AVENGE THEM SPEEDILY; though the time may seem long to them, it is still short; for it is not delayed a moment beyond the proper hour. See 2 Peter 3:8-9. COMETH; to avenge his elect. SHALL HE...
The moral of the story:...
I TELL YOU THAT HE WILL AVENGE THEM SPEEDILY. NEVERTHELESS, WHEN THE SON OF MAN COMETH, SHALL HE FIND FAITH ON THE EARTH? The Lord Himself, in pointing out the lesson, brings out the contrast strongly...
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...
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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Irenaeus Against Heresies Book IV indicated His [second] advent, concerning which He Himself says, "Thinkest thou that when the Son of man cometh, He shall find faith on the earth? "[498] Cyprian Ep...
Luke 18:8 tell G3004 (G5719) you G5213 that G3754 will G4160 (G5692) avenge G1557 them G846 speedily...
“I say to you, that he will avenge them speedily.” This could mean that when it finally comes it will come with speed, it will occur suddenly, unexpectedly and without delay. And then all will be put...
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...
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...
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...
Luke 18:8. I SAY UNTO YOU. Our Lord answers His own question. HE WILL AVENGE THEM SPEEDILY. Not suddenly, but quickly. If Luke 18:7 be explained: Is it His way to delay in their case? then this is th...
HOWBEIT (πλην). It is not clear whether this sentence is also a question or a positive statement. There is no way to decide. Either will make sense though not quite the same sense. The use of αρα be...
FAITH The reference is not to personal faith, but to belief in the whole body of revealed truth. Compare (Romans 1:5); (1 Corinthians 16:13); (2 Corinthians 13:5); ...
Luke 18:8 I. Notice the peril that of losing faith. Now, faith in reference to questions of revelation has three degrees, and only the last represents it in its completeness, though, indeed, as things...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
_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...
LUKE—NOTE ON LUKE 18:8 WILL HE FIND FAITH ON EARTH? The answer is yes. Jesus asks this question to encourage his disciples to watchfulness and prayer (see vv. Luke 18:1,...
LUKE—NOTE ON LUKE 18:1 This parable consists of a “lesser to greater” argument (see note on 11:11–13). ⇐...
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...
_When the Son of man cometh._ He comes to the universal judgment, when He will deliver His elect, whom He ordered to be always ready and eager; and to await that day patiently, preparing themselves fo...
_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...
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...
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...
1 Thessalonians 5:1; 2 Peter 2:3; 2 Peter 3:8; 2 Peter 3:9; Hebr
Nevertheless. Notwithstanding God is certain to vindicate, will the Son of man find on earth a persistence in faith answering to the widow 's?...