Justin Edwards' Family Bible NT (1851)
Luke 17:37
Where, Lord? where will such calamities come? Wheresoever the body is; wherever the unbelieving Jews are, there will their destroyers be upon them, as eagles upon their prey. Matthew 24:28.
Where, Lord? where will such calamities come? Wheresoever the body is; wherever the unbelieving Jews are, there will their destroyers be upon them, as eagles upon their prey. Matthew 24:28.
Verse Luke 17:37. _WHERE, LORD?_] In what place shall all these dreadful evils fall? The answer our Lord gives in a figure, the application of which they are to make themselves. Where the _dead carca...
See the notes at Matthew 24:26. WHERE, LORD? - Where, or in what direction, shall these calamities come? The answer implies that it would be where there is the most “guilt and wickedness.” Eagles floc...
CHAPTER 17 _ 1. Concerning Offenses and Forgiveness. (Luke 17:1)_ 2. Increase of Faith and Lowly Service. (Luke 17:5) 3. The Ten Lepers. (Luke 17:11) 4. Concerning the Kingdom and His Second Coming...
LUKE 17. The chapter illustrates the difficulty experienced by Lk. in using the material at his disposal. He here brings together without any clear connexion of thought a selection of sayings of Chris...
When Jesus was asked by the Pharisees when the kingdom of God was coming, he answered them, "The kingdom of God does not come with signs that you can watch for; nor will they say, 'Look here!' or 'Loo...
LAWS OF THE CHRISTIAN LIFE (Luke 17:1-10)...
WHERE, LORD? The question repeated in Matthew 24:28, as well as the answer. LORD. App-98. WHERESOEVER, &c. Figure of speech _Parcemia._ App-6. BODY. carcass. EAGLES. vultures. See Job 39:30. Compar...
_Where_, _Lord?_ This question also our Lord declines to answer. The Coming of God's Kingdom is not to be limited either by chronological or by geographical conditions. _Wheresoever the body_A] Rathe...
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...
ΠΟΥ͂, ΚΎΡΙΕ; This question also our Lord declines to answer. The Coming of God’s Kingdom is not to be limited either by chronological or by geographical conditions. ΤῸ ΣΩ͂ΜΑ. ‘_The carcass_,’ althoug...
THE ‘WHEN?’ AND ‘WHERE?’ OF THE KINGDOM OF GOD...
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...
VER 34. I TELL YOU, IN THAT NIGHT THERE SHALL BE TWO MEN IN ONE BED; THE ONE SHALL BE TAKEN, AND THE OTHER SHALL BE LEFT. 35. TWO WOMEN SHALL BE GRINDING TOGETHER; THE ONE SHALL BE TAKEN, AND THE OTHE...
ΆΠΟΚΡΙΘΈΝΤΕΣ _aor. pass. (dep.) part., см._ Luke 17:17. ΑΕΤΌΣ (G105) орел, стервятник (Fitzmyer, 1173). ΈΠΙΣΥΝΑΧΘΉΣΟΝΤΑΙ _fut. ind. pass. от_ ΈΠΙΣΥΝΆΓΩ (G1996) собираться вместе....
WHERESOEVER THE BODY IS, &C.— "As eagles find out, and gather round a carcase; so wherever wicked men are, the judgments of God will pursue them; and particularlyin whatever part of the land any numbe...
BUTLER'S COMMENTS SECTION 3 Guarded (Luke 17:20-37) 20 Being asked by the Pharisees when the kingdom of God was coming he answered them, The kingdom of God is not coming with signs to be observed;...
And they answered and said unto him, Where, Lord? And he said unto them, Wheresoever the body is, thither will the eagles be gathered together. AND THEY ANSWERED AND SAID UNTO HIM, WHERE, LORD? WHE...
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...
See on Matthew 24:28; (first interpretation)....
ON THE COMING OF THE SON OF MAN. The Pharisees having now withdrawn, Jesus proceeds to speak more unreservedly to the disciples of the final and glorious coming of His Kingdom, which will be heralded...
OCCASIONS OF OFFENCE. THE TEN LEPERS. THE SECOND ADVENT 1, 2. On causing others to sin. See on Matthew 18:6; Matthew 18:7. 2, ONE OF THESE LITTLE ONES] An affectionate designation of the disciples, e...
LUKE’S GOOD NEWS LUKE _HILDA BRIGHT_ CHAPTER 17 THE DANGER IF YOU CAUSE OTHER PEOPLE TO *SIN 17:1-2 V1 Jesus said to his *disciples, ‘Things will certainly happen that turn people away from God....
WHERE, LORD? — The question comes in naturally here, where the future had been foreshadowed in parables and dark sayings. It would not have been natural in Matthew 24:28, where the whole context deter...
σῶμα, the carcase = πτῶμα, Matthew 24:28; so used in Homer, who employs δέμας for the living body....
_The final separation_ (Matthew 24:40-41)....
_Concerning the coming of the Kingdom and the advent of the Son of Man_. In this section the words of Jesus are distributed between Pharisees and disciples, possibly according to the evangelist's impr...
“THE DAYS OF THE SON OF MAN” Luke 17:22-37 Clearly enough, our Lord foresaw the approaching dissolution of the Jewish state. There was no help for it, notwithstanding all that the Baptist and Christ...
The thinking of the Master for His disciples is always that they should live in love. He knew, however, that offenses must come. In that connection He uttered the solemn word of warning, "Woe unto him...
(12) And they answered and said unto him, Where, Lord? And he said unto them, Wheresoever the body [is], thither will the eagles be gathered together. (12) The only way to continue is to cleave to Ch...
To the question of his disciples in the preceding verse, our blessed Saviour only returns this enigmatical answer, which seems to mean, that where-ever there are guilty Jews, there shall their enemies...
THE CARCASS AND THE EAGLES Luke 17:37. _“And responding, they say to Him, Where, Lord? And He said to them, Where the carcass is, there the eagles will also be gathered.”_ This statement is momentousl...
“ _In that day, he which shall be upon the housetop, and his stuff in the house, let him not come down to take it away: and he that is in the field, let him likewise not return back._ 32. _Remember Lo...
2 _d. Luke 17:22-37_. _The Coming of the Kingdom._ To the Pharisees Jesus declared what they did not know, the spiritual essence of the kingdom. But Jesus did not mean to deny the external and final a...
REFLECTIONS Oh! thou blessed Lord Jesus! well is it said by thee, that offences will come. Yes! thou, dear Lord! art thyself, to every carnal, unawakened sinner, a stone of stumbling, and rock of offe...
(34) I tell you, in that night there shall be two men in one bed; the one shall be taken, and the other shall be left. (35) Two women shall be grinding together; the one shall be taken, and the other...
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...
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...
AND THEY ANSWERED AND SAID UNTO HIM, WHERE, LORD?.... That is, either the Pharisees put this question to Christ, who demanded of him when the kingdom of God would come, Luke 17:20 or rather the discip...
And they answered and said unto him, Where, Lord? And he said unto them, Wheresoever the body _is_, thither will the eagles be gathered together. Ver. 37. _Where, Lord?_] Or, whither, Lord, viz. shal...
Luke 17:37. "And they answered and said unto Him, Where, Lord? And He said unto them, Wheresoever the body is, thither will the eagles be gathered together." This is an enigmatical answer to their que...
_Whosoever shall seek to save his life, shall lose it_ The sense of this and the following verses is, Yet, as great as the danger will be, do not seek to save your lives by violating your consciences;...
AND THEY ANSWERED AND SAID UNTO HIM, WHERE, LORD? AND HE SAID UNTO THEM, WHERESOEVER THE BODY IS, THITHER WILL THE EAGLES BE GATHERED TOGETHER. The thought which stands out from the Lord's warning is...
Final warnings:...
GRACE IN VIEW OF OFFENSES (vs.1-4) We have seen the grace of God clearly and beautifully declared, yet the world rejecting it. The Lord Jesus then spoke to His disciples. What should be their attitud...
20-37 The kingdom of God was among the Jews, or rather within some of them. It was a spiritual kingdom, set up in the heart by the power of Divine grace. Observe how it had been with sinners formerly...
OLBGrk; Concerning the sense of this proverbial expression, and the various application of it by interpreters, SEE POOLE ON "MATTHEW 24:28". In our evangelist (where it is swma, not ptwma, as in Matth...
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“And they answering say to him, “Where, Lord?” And he said to them, “Where the carcase (body) is, there will the vultures also be gathered together.” This then raised the obvious question among His li...
CHRONOLOGY. We connect this discourse with that ending in Luke 17:10, placing the whole in Perea, just before the final departure for Jericho and Jerusalem. Chap, Luke 18:15-34, contains incidents to...
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 17:37. WHERE, LORD? The Pharisees had inquired in regard to the _time;_ the disciples ask about the _place,_ with special reference to the separation just spoken of. They did not understand its u...
THE EAGLES (ο αετο). Or the vultures attracted by the carcass. This proverb is quoted also in Matthew 24:28. See Job 39:27-30; Hebrews 1:8; Hosea 8:1...
WHERESOEVER See "Armageddon". (Revelation 16:14); (Revelation 19:17). (_ See Scofield) - (Revelation 19:17). _...
CONTENTS: Instruction in forgiveness. Parable of service. Ten lepers healed. Second coming of Jesus foretold. CHARACTERS: Jesus, disciples, ten lepers, Pharisees, Noah, Lot, Lot's wife. CONCLUSION:...
Luke 17:1. _It is impossible but that offences will come._ Such as the disciples had just seen, the contempt and derision evinced by the pharisees; but woe to the man, and woe to the nation which shal...
AS IT WAS IN THE TIME OF NOAH. This is similar to parts of Matthew 24:17-41. See notes there. REMEMBER LOT'S WIFE! By delaying and looking back, as they were fleeing Sodom, she lost her life. Compare...
_Wheresoever the body is_ GOD’S JUDGMENTS The twofold inquiry that always greets the prophet is Where? and When? These two questions are prompted by curiosity and self-interest. The passionate desir...
LUKE—NOTE ON LUKE 17:37 CORPSE... VULTURES. See note on Matt. 24:28. ⇐...
CHAPTER 17 VER. 5. _And the Apostles said to the Lord, Increase our faith._ The Apostles said this, when, from their little faith, they had been unable to cast out the devil from the lunatic. They the...
_CRITICAL NOTES_ Luke 17:20. DEMANDED OF THE PHARISEES.—We can scarcely think that they had any good end in view in asking this question; it is probable they expected to get some answer which might be...
EXPOSITION LUKE 17:1 _The_ _Master_'_s teaching on the subject of the injury worked on the souls of others by our sins. The disciples pray for an increase of faith that they may be kept from such sin...
Now He turns again to His disciples. Then said he unto his disciples, It is impossible but that offenses will come (Luke 17:1): You cannot help if you're living in this world, you're going to have of...
1 Thessalonians 2:16; Amos 9:1; Daniel 9:26; Daniel 9:27; Job 39:29;...
Eagles. See on Matthew 24:28. :Luke 18 CHAPTER XVIII THE PARABLES OF THE UNJUST JUDGE AND THE PHARISEE AND PUBLICAN. Peculiar to Luke. 1 - 14....
Matthew 24:28....
The disciples hearing our Saviour speak of such tremendous calamities, enquire, where these judments should fall. He answers them figuratively, and by. proverbial speech, that WHERE THE CARCASS IS, TH...