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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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 SON OF MAN. App-98.
FAITH. the faith.
ON. Greek. _epi._...
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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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Luke 18:1-8. THE DUTY OF URGENT PRAYER. THE UNJUST JUDGE...
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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 THE...
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ΠΟΙΉΣΕΙ _fut. ind. act., см._ Luke 18:7. ΈΛΘΏΝ _aor.
act. part. (temp.) от_ ΈΡΧΟΜΑΙ, _см._ Luke 18:3....
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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 e...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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_The unjust judge_, in Lk. only....
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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...
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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....
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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 whosoev...
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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...
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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...
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(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...
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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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_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...
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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...
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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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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...
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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...
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_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...
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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...
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The moral of the story:...
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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...
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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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SEE POOLE ON "LUKE 18:2...
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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...
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Luke 18:8 tell G3004 (G5719) you G5213 that G3754 will G4160 (G5692)
avenge G1557 them G846 speedily G5034 G1722 Nevertheless G4133 when
G687 Son G5207 Man G444 comes G2064 (G5631) find G2147 (G5692)...
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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...
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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...
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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 b...
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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);
(Colossians 1:23); (Colossians 2:7...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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_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...
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LUKE—NOTE ON LUKE 18:1 This parable consists of a “lesser to
greater” argument (see note on 11:11–13).
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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...
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_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...
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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...
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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...
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1 Thessalonians 5:1; 2 Peter 2:3; 2 Peter 3:8; 2 Peter 3:9; Hebrews
10:23; James 5:1; Matthew 24:24; Matthew 24:9; Psalms 143:7; Psalms 4
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Nevertheless. Notwithstanding God is certain to vindicate, will the
Son of man find on earth a persistence in faith answering to the widow
's?...
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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...