Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
Luke 18:4
Verse Luke 18:4. He said within himself] How many actions which appear good have neither the love of God, nor that of our neighbour, but only self-love of the basest kind, for their principle and motive!
Verse Luke 18:4. He said within himself] How many actions which appear good have neither the love of God, nor that of our neighbour, but only self-love of the basest kind, for their principle and motive!
FOR A WHILE - Probably this means for a “considerable” time. It was his duty to attend to the claims of justice, but this was long delayed. WITHIN HIMSELF - He thought, or came to a conclusion. THOUG...
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...
WOULD NOT. did not wish to. App-102. NOT. Greek. _ou._ App-105. afterward after (Greek. _meta._ App-104.) these things. WITHIN. to. Greek. _en._ App-104....
_he said within himself_ The shamelessness with which he acknowledges his own sin renders it still more aggravated. _Though I fear not God_, _nor regard man_ -The creed of a powerful atheist." Bengel...
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...
ΕἾΠΕΝ ἘΝ ἙΑΥΤΩ͂Ι. The shamelessness with which he acknowledges his own sin renders it still more aggravated. ΕἸ ΚΑῚ ΤῸΝ ΘΕῸΝ Κ.Τ.Λ. The οὐ coalesces with the φοβοῦμαι and is unaffected by εἰ as in Lu...
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...
ΉΘΕΛΕΝ _impf. ind. act. от_ ΘΈΛΩ (G2309) желать, хотеть. _Impf._ изображает его постоянный отказ, ΕΊ ΚΑ (G2532; G1487) если, также, даже если. С этим оборотом условие трактуется как не имеющее значен...
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...
And he would not for a while: but afterward he said within himself, Though I fear not God, nor regard man; AND HE WOULD NOT FOR A WHILE: BUT AFTERWARD HE SAID WITHIN HIMSELF, THOUGH I FEAR NOT GOD...
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...
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...
HE WOULD NOT FOR A WHILE. — The judge was callous and dead to pity, even for that extremest wretchedness. The pleadings of the widow were simply an annoyance, which at first he bore with indifference....
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 parable_. τὸν Θεόν, etc.: a proverbial description for a thoroughly unprincipled man (examples from classics in Wetstein). ἐντρεπόμενος, having respect for, with accusative, as in late Greek; in...
ἐπὶ χρόνον, for a considerable time. _Per multum tempus_ (Vulgate) may be too strong, but it is in the right direction. The scope of the parable and the use of the word χρόνος in a pregnant sense impl...
_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....
And he would not for a long time. The Almighty does not always hear us as soon as we could wish, nor in the manner that seems best to us; but if we are not always heard according to our desires, we al...
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...
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...
(4) And he would not for a while: but afterward he said within himself, Though I fear not God, nor regard man: (5) Yet because this widow troubleth me, I will avenge her, lest by her continual coming...
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 HE WOULD NOT FOR A WHILE,.... He would give no ear to her cries, nor take her cause in hand, nor right her wrongs, and clear her of her adversary: BUT AFTERWARD HE SAID WITHIN HIMSELF; as he was...
And he would not for a while: but afterward he said within himself, Though I fear not God, nor regard man; Ver. 4. _And he would not for awhile_] There is a passive injustice. _Non faciendo nocens, s...
_There was in a city a judge, which feared not God_, &c. This magistrate, being governed by atheistical principles, had no inducement from religion to do justice; at the same time, being very powerful...
AND HE WOULD NOT FOR A WHILE; BUT AFTERWARD HE SAID WITHIN HIMSELF, THOUGH I FEAR NOT GOD NOR REGARD MAN,...
THE IMPORTUNATE WIDOW. The unjust judge:...
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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Luke 18:4 And G2532 would G2309 (G5656) not G3756 for G1909 while G5550 but G1161 afterward G5023...
“And he would not for a while, but afterwards he said within himself,” For a while the judge ignored her pleas, putting off her case and hoping that she would go away. But when she kept coming to him...
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 18:4. FOR A WHILE. Not necessarily, for a long time. HE LAID WITHIN HIMSELF, etc. This soliloquy reveals the utterly abandoned character of the man: he was not ashamed of his own recklessness....
HE WOULD NOT (ουκ ηθελεν). Imperfect tense of continued refusal.THOUGH (ε κα). Concerning sentence, not κα ε (even if)....
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; saying, There was in a city a judge, which feared not God, neither regarded man: and there was...
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;_ «Not to faint» in their expectation of answers to their supplications, and therefore give u...
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...
FOR A LONG TIME. The judge had no high motives, and she had no money to bribe him. This is important, because it builds up to the "punch line." YET BECAUSE OF ALL THE TROUBLE. She kept on "nagging" hi...
_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 18:1 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...
_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...
Hebrews 4:12; Hebrews 4:13; Luke 12:17; Luke 16:3...