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Luke 21:34-36
Watch yourselves! Only Luke gives this exact wording. See notes on Matthew 24:38-51.
Watch yourselves! Only Luke gives this exact wording. See notes on Matthew 24:38-51.
Verse 34. _TAKE HEED TO YOURSELVES_] See our Lord's parable, relative to this matter, explained, Mark 13:34. _BE OVERCHARGED_] Literally, _be made heavy_, as is generally the case with those who hav...
The account of the destruction of Jerusalem contained in this chapter has been fully considered in the notes at Matthew 24. All that will be necessary here will be an explanation of a few words that d...
CHAPTER 21 _ 1. The Widow's Mite. (Luke 21:1)_ 2. The Destruction of the Temple Predicted. (Luke 21:5) 3. The Disciple's Question Concerning the Future. (Luke 21:7) 4. Things to Come. ...
THE ESCHATOLOGICAL DISCOURSE (Mark 13*, Matthew 24*). Lk. follows Mk., though with certain modifications and amplifications. In Mt., Mk. is blended with Q, but Lk. has already used the Q material in c...
And there will be signs in sun, and moon, and stars, and on earth the nations will be in distress and will not know what to do in the roaring of the sea and of the wave, while men's hearts will swoon...
THE PRECIOUS GIFT (Luke 21:1-4)...
HEARTS. Put by Figure of speech _Synecdoche_ (of the Part), App-6, for the whole person. OVERCHARGED. weighed down. Greek. _baruno._ Only here. Compare Luke 9:32; 2 Corinthians 5:4. SURFEITING. Greek...
_surfeiting_ The headache after drunkenness. Lat. _crapula._ drunkenness Comp. Romans 13:13. Hence the exhortation "be sober," _nepsate,_1 Peter 4:7; 1 Thessalonians 5:6. _cares of this life_ Comp.
34, 35. ΑἸΦΝΊΔΙΟΣ … ὩΣ ΠΑΓΊΣ. ἐπ[εισ]ελεύσεται γάρ אBDL La[360] Ti[361] W. H[362] [360] La. Lachmann. [361] Ti. Tischendorf. [362] W. H. Westcott and Hort....
ΚΡΑΙΠΆΛΗΙ. ‘The giddiness of yesterday’s debauch’; the headache after drunkenness.—Lat. _crapula_. ΜΈΘΗΙ. Only in St Paul and St Luke. Comp. Romans 13:13. Hence the exhortation “be sober,” νήψατε, 1 P...
PARABLE OF THE FIG-TREE. DUTY OF WATCHFULNESS...
VER 34. AND TAKE HEED TO YOURSELVES, LEST AT ANY TIME YOUR HEARTS BE OVERCHARGED WITH SURFEITING, AND DRUNKENNESS, AND CARES OF THIS LIFE, AND SO THAT DAY COME UPON YOU UNAWARES. 35. FOR AS A SNARE SH...
ΠΡΟΣΈΧΕΤΕ _praes. imper. act. от_ ΠΡΟΣΈΧΩ (G4337) обращать внимание, остерегаться. _Praes. imper._ призывает к постоянной бдительности, ΒΑΡΗΘΏΣΙΝ _aor. conj. pass. от_ ΒΑΡΈΩ (G916) отягчать, придавли...
YOUR HEARTS BE OVERCHARGED— The word βαρυνθωσιν property signifies, _burdened,_ or _pressed down;_ and elegantly and strongly expresses the hateful consequences of intemperance; and the load that it b...
BUTLER'S COMMENTS SECTION 4 Portends the Second Coming (Luke 21:33-38) 33Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will not pass away. 34 But take heed to yourselves lest your hearts be weighed...
APPLEBURY'S COMMENTS _Christ's Coming at the End of the World Scripture_ Luke 21:33-36 Heaven and earth shall pass away: but my words shall not pass away. 34 But take heed to yourselves, lest haply...
And as some spake of the temple, how it was adorned with goodly stones and gifts, he said, Far the exposition, see the notes at Mark 13:1....
32 It is evident that all these things did not take place in that generation. Nor did the Lord say that they would. He simply said that they _ should_. He could not at that time reveal to them the fai...
THE WIDOW'S MITE. PROPHECY OF THE FALL OF JERUSALEM AND THE SECOND ADVENT 1-4. The widow's mite (Mark 12:41). See on Mk....
GREAT PROPHECY OF THE FALL OF JERUSALEM AND THE SECOND ADVENT (Matthew 24:1; Mark 13:1). See on Mt. St. Luke distinguishes these two events more clearly than the other evangelists (Luke 21:24). He als...
LUKE’S GOOD NEWS LUKE _HILDA BRIGHT_ CHAPTER 21 THE WIDOW’S *OFFERING 21:1-4 V1 Jesus looked up and watched the rich men. They dropped their money into the boxes in the *Temple. V2 He also saw a...
TAKE HEED TO YOURSELVES, LEST AT ANY TIME... — We again pass into what has nothing corresponding to it in the other reports of the discourse, and may therefore be assumed to be of the nature of a para...
_General exhortation to watchfulness_, peculiar to Lk.; each evangelist having his own epilogue. ἐν κραιπάλῃ καὶ μέθῃ : this seems to be a phrase similar to ἠχοῦς καὶ σάλου sound and wave for sounding...
THE NEED OF CONSTANT WATCHFULNESS Luke 21:29-38 The summer of the world is yet before us! _This_ is but the springtide, when the seeds are beginning to sprout, but the winds are cold. Ah, halcyon da...
Here we have another illustration of the fact that nothing could escape the Master's vigilance. Of the gifts being cast into the treasury He was the true Appraiser. He saw the widow as she cast in her...
CHAPTER 20 COMING OF THE LORD Matthew 24; Matthew 25; Mark 13; Luke 21. It is now in the afternoon, on Wednesday, preceding the arrest of our Savior about midnight the ensuin
_The Application._ “ _When these things begin to come to pass, then look up, and lift up your heads; for your redemption draweth nigh._ 29. _And He spake to them a parable: Behold the fig-tree, and al...
2. _The Discourse: Luke 21:8-36_. The four points treated by Jesus are: 1 _st._ The apparent signs, which must not be mistaken for true signs (Luke 21:8-19); 2 _d._ The true sign, and the destruction...
THIRD CYCLE: THE PROPHECY OF THE DESTRUCTION OF JERUSALEM, LUKE 21:5-38. This piece contains a question put by the disciples (Luke 21:5-7), the discourse of Jesus in answer to their question (Luke 21:...
Here, as in chap. 12, the life of the disciples is apparently to be prolonged till the Parousia. The reason is, that that period is ever to remain the point on which the believer's heart should fix (L...
And there shall be signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in the stars; and upon the earth distress of nations, with perplexity; the sea and the waves roaring; Men's hearts failing them for fear, and...
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...
_ETERNAL WORDS_ ‘Heaven and earth shall pass away: but My words shall not pass away. And take heed to yourselves.’ Luke 21:33 So, and with such solemn words, doth Christ the mighty Prophet close th...
The Lord's discourse in chapter 21 displays the character of the Gospel in a peculiar manner. The spirit of grace, in contrast with the Judaic spirit, is seen in the account of the poor widow's offeri...
AND TAKE HEED TO YOURSELVES,.... To your souls and bodies, to your lives and conversations; be upon your watch and guard: LEST YOUR HEARTS BE OVERCHARGED WITH SURFEITING AND DRUNKENNESS; with excessi...
And take heed to yourselves, lest at any time your hearts be overcharged with surfeiting, and drunkenness, and cares of this life, and _so_ that day come upon you unawares. Ver. 34. _Take heed that y...
_Take heed_, &c. Here our Lord cautions them against the security and sensuality, to which, if they should yield, they would unfit themselves for the trying times that were approaching, and would rend...
BE OVERCHARGED WITH SURFEITING; made heavy and careless by immoderate eating and drinking. THAT DAY; the day when Christ will come to save his people and take vengeance on his foes. These exhortations...
Warning to be ready for Christ's coming. Matthew 24:36-51....
AND TAKE HEED TO YOURSELVES, LEST AT ANY TIME YOUR HEARTS BE OVERCHARGED WITH SURFEITING AND DRUNKENNESS AND CARES OF THIS LIFE, AND SO THAT DAY COME UPON YOU UNAWARES....
A final warning:...
THE WIDOW'S TWO MITES (vs.1-4) The first four verses are a continuation of the sublect of Chapter 20. If the scribes had no regard for widows, God takes full account of them. Rich men may donate larg...
29-38 Christ tells his disciples to observe the signs of the times, which they might judge by. He charges them to look upon the ruin of the Jewish nation as near. Yet this race and family of Abraham...
Ver. 34-36. I take the LUKE 21:34 to be a good exposition of the term _watch,_ LUKE 21:36. Avoid sin industriously, in a prospect of my coming to judgment: for sin is compared to sleep, Romans 13:11...
Irenaeus Against Heresies Book IV And therefore did the Lord say to His disciples, to make us become good workmen: "Take heed to yourselves, and watch continually upon every occasion, lest at any tim...
Luke 21:34 But G1161 heed G4337 (G5720) yourselves G1438 lest G3379 your G5216 hearts G2588 down G925 ...
“But take heed to yourselves, lest it happen that your hearts be overcharged with surfeiting, and drunkenness, and cares of this life, and that day come on you suddenly as a snare, for so will it come...
CONCLUDING WORDS (21:29-38). Jesus now sums up the conclusions which result from what He has been saying. In His summing up He stresses the signs that will indicate the ‘nearness' of the Kingly Rule...
PROPHECY CONCERNING THE DESTRUCTION OF THE TEMPLE, THE SCATTERING OF THE JEWS, AND THE COMING OF THE SON OF MAN (21:5-36). This passage connects with the last in that the disciples begin to discuss th...
The discourse of our Lord about the last times, is here connected most closely with the prediction of the destruction of the temple (Luke 21:5-6). There is no allusion to the mount of Olives, where, a...
Luke 21:34-36. CONCLUDING WARNING. Peculiar to Luke in this form, though the same thoughts occur in Matthew 24:42-51; Mark 13:32-37....
Luke 21:34. TO YOURSELVES. Emphatic. OVERCHARGED. Made heavy, sleepy, and hence unexpectant, the underlying thought being the sudden return of the Lord. Three things are mentioned as bringing them i...
LEST HAPLY YOUR HEARTS BE OVERCHARGED (μη ποτε βαρηθωσιν α καρδια υμων). First aorist passive subjunctive of βαρεω, an old verb to weigh down, depress, with μη ποτε.WITH SURFEITING (εν κρεπαλη)....
Luke 21:1. And he looked up, and saw the rich men casting their gifts into the treasury. And he saw also a certain poor widow casting in thither two mites. And he said, Of a truth I say unto you, that...
CONTENTS: The widow's mite. Discourse on the course of the age and return of the Lord. CHARACTERS: Jesus, widow, disciples. CONCLUSION: As the time draws near when the Kingdom of God shall be fully e...
Luke 21:5. _Some spake of the temple, how it was adorned with goodly stones and gifts._ This conversation occurred as they were going out of the temple. Mark 13:1. On mount Olivet the Lord delivered t...
_Surfeiting and drunkenness_ GLUTTONY AND DRUNKENNESS TO BE AVOIDED I. I will attempt to show you THE EVILS AND MISCHIEF OF THESE SINS WHICH OUR SAVIOUR HERE CAUTIONS US AGAINST. Be it known to you,...
LUKE—NOTE ON LUKE 21:34 THAT DAY. When the Son of Man comes (v. Luke 21:27) and the kingdom comes in its fullness (v....
Jesus tells about his return Matthew 24:36-51; Mark 13:32-37; Luke 21:34-36; Luke 12:39-46;...
_And take heed to yourselves, lest_ "the cares of this life absorb the mind and sink the faculties," says Euthymius, "and do not allow men to think about their salvation." "The cares of this life," sa...
CHAPTER 21 VER. 18. _But there shall not an hair of your head perish._ "Because," says S. Gregory, "what was said about death was hard, comfort is added at once, from the joy of the resurrection, when...
_CRITICAL NOTES_ Luke 21:7. AND THEY ASKED HIM.—St. Mark tells us (Luke 13:3) that the questioners were the apostles Peter, John, James and Andrew. The discourse that follows is related by the two fir...
EXPOSITION LUKE 21:1 _The_ _widow_'_s mite. _We find this little sketch only here and in St. Mark (Mark 12:41). The Master was sitting—resting, probably, after the effort of the great denunciation of...
And he looked up, and he saw the rich men casting their gifts into the treasury. And he saw also a certain poor widow casting in thither two mites (Luke 21:1-2). A mite was one-sixteenth of a penny. I...
1 Corinthians 5:11; 1 Corinthians 6:10; 1 Peter 4:3; 1 Samuel 25:36;...
Overcharged (barhqwsin). Weighed down. Compare ch. 9 32; 2 Corinthians 5:4. Surfeiting [κ ρ α ι π α λ η]. Only here in New Testament. Derivation uncertain : akin to the Latin crapula, intoxication. T...
Take heed, lest at any time your hearts be overloaded with gluttony and drunkenness — And was there need to warn the apostles themselves against such sins as these? Then surely there is reason to warn...
Here our Lord cautions his disciples against such. distemper and indisposition of mind, as may render them unfit and unready for his coming and appearance; and to take heed of two dangerous sins, name...