Chapter 18:
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Luke 18
Verse 1. He spake a parable to them - This and the following parable
warn us against two fatal extremes, with regard to prayer: the
former against faintness and weariness, the latter against self
confidence.
Verse
7. And shall not God - The most just Judge, vindicate his own
elect - Preserve the Christians from all their adversaries, and in
particular save them out of the general destruction, and avenge
them of the Jews? Though he bear long with them - Though he
does not immediately put an end, either to the wrongs of the
wicked, or the sufferings of good men.
Verse
8. 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 enemies in this age or in after ages, how few true believers
will be found upon earth!
Verse
9. He spake this parable - Not to hypocrites; the Pharisee here
mentioned was no hypocrite, no more than an outward adulterer:
but he sincerely trusted in himself that he was righteous, and
accordingly told God so, in the prayer which none but God heard.
Verse
12. I fast twice in the week - So did all the strict Pharisees: every
Monday and Thursday. I give tithes of all that I possess - Many of
them gave one full tenth of their income in tithes, and another
tenth in alms. the sum of this plea is, I do no harm: I use all the
means of grace: I do all the good I can.
Verse
13. The publican standing afar off - From the holy of holies,
would not so much as lift up his eyes to heaven - Touched with
shame, which is more ingenuous than fear.
Verse
14. This man went down - From the hill on which the temple
stood, justified rather than the other - That is, and not the other.
Verse
15. Matt. xix, 13; Mark x, 13.
Verse
16. Calling them - Those that brought the children: of such is the
kingdom of God - Such are subjects of the Messiah's kingdom.
And such as these it properly belongs to.
Verse
18. Matt. xix, 16; Mark x, 17.
Verse
20. Exod. xx, 12, &c.
Verse
22. Yet lackest thou one thing - Namely, to love God more than
mammon. Our saviour knew his heart, and presently put him upon
a trial which laid it open to the ruler himself. And to cure his love
of the world, which could not in him be cured otherwise, Christ
commanded him to sell all that he had. But he does not command
us to do this; but to use all to the glory of God.
Verse
31. Matt. xx, 17; Mark x, 32.
Verse
34. They understood none of these things - The literal meaning
they could not but understand. But as they could not reconcile this
to their preconceived opinion of the Messiah, they were utterly at
a loss in what parabolical or figurative sense to take what he said
concerning his sufferings; having their thoughts still taken up with
the temporal kingdom.
Verse
35. Matt. xx, 29; Mark x, 46.
Chapter 18:
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| Geneva
| Gill
| Jamieson Faussett Brown
| Johnson
| Lightfoot
| Matthew Henry
| Matthew Henry Concise
| McGarvey Pendleton
| McGee
| Wesley
| Index
| Bible Gateway |
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This version of Wesley's Notes on the Bible is a derivative of an electronic version, Copyright 1997, by Sulu D. Kelley. All rights reserved. Used by permission. It may not be modified or used commercially without permission of Wesleyan Heritage Publishing and Sulu Kelley. A special thanks to Mr. Kelley and Wesleyan Heritage Publishing for permission to create and post this version of Wesley's Notes on the Bible.
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