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INCREASE OUR FAITH - This duty of forgiving offences seemed so
difficult to the disciples that they strongly felt the need of an
increase of faith. They felt that they were prone themselves to harbor...
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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...
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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...
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LAWS OF THE CHRISTIAN LIFE (Luke 17:1-10)...
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Jesus said to his disciples, "It is impossible that snares to sin
should not arise; but woe to him through whom they do arise! It would
be better for him if a millstone were hung around his neck and h...
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THE LORD. App-98.
INCREASE OUR FAITH. Give us more faith....
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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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5-10. The Power of Faith. The Insufficiency of Works.
5. _the apostles said unto the Lord_ The high title given, and the
spontaneous united request, shew how deeply they had felt the previous
lessons...
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THE POWER OF FAITH. THE INSUFFICIENCY OF WORKS...
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ΟἹ�. The high title given, and the spontaneous united request,
shew how deeply they had felt the previous lessons.
ΠΡΌΣΘΕΣ ἩΜΙ͂Ν ΠΊΣΤΙΝ. Literally ‘_Add to us
faith_,’ i.e. give us more faith, withou...
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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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5. AND THE APOSTLES SAID TO THE LORD, INCREASE OUR FAITH. 6. AND THE
LORD SAID, IF YOU HAD FAITH AS A GRAIN OF MUSTARD SEED, YOU MIGHT SAY
TO THIS SYCAMINE TREE, BE YOU PLUCKED UP BY THE ROOT, AND BE...
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ΠΡΌΣΘΕΣ _aor. imper. act. от_ ΠΡΟΣΤΊΘΗΜΙ (G4369)
добавлять, давать вдобавок,
увеличивать. Речь идет скорее о
количественном приросте некоего
вещества, чем о добавлении нового (GI,
51)....
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DISCOURSE: 1551
THE IMPORTANCE OF FAITH
Luke 17:5. _And the Apostles said unto the Lord, Increase our faith.
And the Lord said, If ye had faith as a grain of mustard-seed, ye
might say unto this syca...
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THE APOSTLES SAID UNTO THE LORD, INCREASE OUR FAITH.— Our Lord's
discourse in the preceding verses, being very opposite to the common
notions concerning the Messiah and his followers, seems to have
st...
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Butler's Comments
SECTION 1
Be Good (Luke 17:1-10)
17 And he said to his disciples, Temptations to sin are sure to come;
but woe to him by whom they come! 2It would be better for him if a
millstone w...
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And the apostles said unto the Lord, Increase our faith.
AND THE APOSTLES SAID UNTO THE LORD (SEE THE NOTE AT ), INCREASE OUR
FAITH. What prompted so special a petition? No doubt the felt
difficult...
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1 The Lord is through with the unbelievers and now addresses His own
disciples. He anticipates the fact that, even among themselves, there
would be much to cause them to stumble and fall. He seeks to...
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INCREASE OUR FAITH] Others render, 'Give us faith in addition,' i.e.
add it to the gifts already promised. Whether the 'faith' mentioned is
faith in general, or the faith which enables to forgive a br...
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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...
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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....
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THE APOSTLES SAID UNTO THE LORD, INCREASE OUR FAITH. — The form in
which the fragment that thus commences is brought before us suggests,
as has been stated before (see Notes on Luke 7:13; Luke 10:1),...
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_The power of faith_ (_cf._ Matthew 17:20). οἱ ἀπόστολοι
instead of μαθηταὶ. Luke 17:1. τῷ κυρίῳ : these
titles for Jesus and the Twelve betray a narrative having no
connection with what goes before,...
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“TAKE HEED TO YOURSELVES”
Luke 17:1-10
The world is full of stumbling-blocks. Men are perpetually placing
them in each other's way; and especially before little children, the
simple and the weak. Le...
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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...
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(3) And the apostles said unto the Lord, Increase our faith.
(3) God will never be utterly lacking to the godly (although he may
not be as thorough with them as they wish) even in those difficulties...
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Increase our faith. The disciples having heard our Saviour inculcating
maxims hard to flesh and blood, such as avoiding scandal, and
forgiving our enemies, humbly beg their faith may be increased, tha...
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QUALITY RATHER THAN QUANTITY
Luke 17:5-6. _“And the apostles said to the Lord, Increase our
faith. And the Lord said, If you have faith as a seed of mustard, you
said to this sycamine-tree, Be thou pl...
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7. _Various Sayings: Luke 17:1-10_. This piece contains four brief
lessons, placed here without introduction, and between which it is
impossible to establish a connection. Olshausen and Meyer have
att...
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VERS. 5 AND 6. _Faith._ “ _And the apostles said unto the Lord,
Increase our faith._ 6. _And the Lord said, If ye had faith as a grain
of mustard seed, ye might say unto this sycamine tree, Be thou pl...
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(3) Take heed to yourselves: If thy brother trespass against thee,
rebuke him; and if he repent, forgive him. (4) And if he trespass
against thee seven times in a day, and seven times in a day turn ag...
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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...
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_THE GROWTH OF FAITH_
‘Lord, Increase our faith.’
Luke 17:5
Whatever admits of increase must have degrees. Faith is a ladder with
many and long ascents. And yet the very highest, compared to what i...
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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...
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AND THE APOSTLES SAID UNTO THE LORD,.... Either on account of what was
now said by Christ concerning offences, and forgiving injuries; being
conscious to themselves of their own weakness to withstand...
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And the apostles said unto the Lord, Increase our faith.
Ver. 5. _Lord, increase our faith_] A most necessary request in this
case. For the more any man believeth that God for Christ's sake hath
pard...
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_And the apostles said, Lord, increase our faith_ That we may thus
forgive, and neither offend nor be offended. _And he said, If ye had
faith as a grain of mustard-seed_ You would be able to overcome...
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To do their duty, all men need an increase of faith; and as Christ is
the author and finisher of faith, all should habitually look to him
for this inestimable gift. Hebrews 12:2....
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AND THE APOSTLES SAID UNTO THE LORD, INCREASE OUR FAITH....
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Concerning forgiveness:...
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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...
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1-10 It is no abatement of their guilt by whom an offence comes, nor
will it lessen their punishment that offences will come. Faith in
God's pardoning mercy, will enable us to get over the greatest
d...
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Though we be not to seek a connection of all those speeches of our
Lord which are recorded by the evangelists, they sometimes heaping
together many of his golden sayings, without so much as regard to...
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Irenaeus Against Heresies Book III
also the answer which He gave to His disciples when they said,
"Increase our faith; "[250]
Clement of Alexandria Stromata Book V
Whence, perceiving the greatness...
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Luke 17:5 And G2532 apostles G652 said G2036 (G5627) Lord G2962
Increase G4369 (G5628) our G2254 faith...
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THE DISCIPLES' RESPONSIBILITY TOWARDS GOD'S PEOPLE AND THE WARNING NOT
TO GET ABOVE THEMSELVES BECAUSE OF WHAT THEY WILL ACCOMPLISH
(17:1-10).
Some have spoken here of ‘separate sayings' but there is...
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‘And the apostles said to the Lord, “Increase our faith.”
And the Lord said, “If you had faith as a grain of mustard seed,”
You would say to this sycamine (mulberry) tree, ‘Be you rooted up,
and be...
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Luke 17:5. AND THE APOSTLES SAID. This is the only instance in the
Gospels, where the Apostles as such make a request in common.
INCREASE OUR FAITH, LIT, ‘add to us faith,' _i.e.,_ give us more
faith...
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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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PART of the discourse began in chap. Luke 15:4, and addressed to the
disciples (Luke 17:1). Some of the thoughts are found in Matthew 18,
but the latter part of the section is peculiar to Luke....
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INCREASE
(προσθες). Second aorist active imperative of
προστιθημ, to add to. Bruce thinks that this sounds much like
the stereotyped petition in church prayers. A little reflection will
show that t...
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Luke 17:5
There is a twofold difficulty in this passage: (1) The manner in which
Christ receives the prayer of the Apostles seems to be not such as we
should have expected; and, (2) the connection of...
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Luke 17:1. _Then said he unto the disciples, It is impossible but that
offences will come: but woe unto him, through whom they come!_
Since the fall, we are so constituted that there are sure to be
d...
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Luke 17:1. _Then said he unto the disciples, It is impossible but that
offences will come:_
We are so strangely made that even good men do not always agree, and
there are so many bad men about that t...
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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:...
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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...
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MAKE OUR FAITH GREATER. The disciples ask for faith to be able to do
the things he has just told them. IF YOU HAD FAITH AS BIG AS A MUSTARD
SEED. _Godet_ writes: "The only real power of the universe i...
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_Increase our faith_
INCREASED FAITH PRAYED FOR
1.
Observe, that faith is susceptible of being increased.
2. There are important reasons why an increase of faith should be
desired,
(1) An increas...
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LUKE—NOTE ON LUKE 17:5 INCREASE OUR FAITH! Jesus’ reply to this
request indicates that even a very small amount of faith can lead to
remarkable results (IT WOULD OBEY YOU). This passage must be
unders...
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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...
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_CRITICAL NOTES_
Luke 17:1. THEN SAID HE.—Rather, “And he said” (R.V.). The
previous discourse had been addressed to the Pharisees; we have now
detached sayings addressed, probably on various occasion...
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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...
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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...
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1 Peter 1:22; 1 Peter 1:23; 2 Corinthians 12:8; 2 Thessalonians 1:3;...
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Lord, increase our faith — That we may thus forgive, and may neither
offend nor be offended. Matthew 17:20....
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Observe here,
1. The supplicants, THE APOSTLES.
2. The person supplicated, THE LORD.
3. The supplication itself, INCREASE OUR FAITH.
4. The occasion of this supplication, our Saviour urging the du...