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LUKE VI. 23, 24.

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τῷ οὐρανῷ· κατὰ ταῦτα γὰρ ἐποίουν τοῖς | the candle of the wicked put out? and προφήταις οἱ πατέρες αὐτῶν.

Rejoice ye in that day, and leap for joy: for, behold, your reward is great in heaven: for in the like manner did their fathers unto the prophets.

a See on Matt. v. ver.12.

VER. 24.

how oft cometh their destruction upon them? God distributeth sorrows in his anger. They are as stubble before the wind, and as chaff that the storm carrieth away. God layeth up hisiniquity for his children: he rewardeth him, and he shall know it. His eyes shall see his destruction, and he shall

Πλὴν οὐαὶ ὑμῖν τοῖς πλουσίοις· ὅτι ἀξ- drink of the wrath of the Almighty. χετε τὴν παράκλησιν ὑμῶν.

For what pleasure hath he in his house after him, when the number of his months is cut off in the midst? Job xxi. 7-21. For the turning away of the simple shall slay them, and the prosperity of fools shall destroy them, Prov. i. 32. Woe to them that are at

But woe unto you that are rich! b for ye have received your consolation. "And he said unto them, Take heed, and beware of covetousness: for a man's life consisteth not in the abundance of the things which he possess-ease in Zion, and trust in the mouneth. And he spake a parable unto tain of Samaria, which are named chief them, saying, The ground of a cer- of the nations, to whom the house of tain rich man brought forth plentifully: Israel came! Pass ye unto Calneh, And he thought within himself, say- and see; and from thence go ye to ing, What shall I do, because I have Hamath the great: then go down to no room where to bestow my fruits? Gath of the Philistines: be they betAnd he said, This will 1 do: I will ter than these kingdoms? or their borpull down my barns, and build greater; der greater than your border? Ye that and there will I bestow all my fruits put far away the evil day, and cause and my goods. And I will say to my the seat of violence to come near; soul, Soul, thou hast much goods laid That lie upon beds of ivory, and stretch up for many years; take thine ease, themselves upon their couches, and eat, drink, and be merry. But God eat the lambs out of the flock, and said unto him, Thou fool! this night the calves out of the midst of the stall; thy soul shall be required of thee: then That chant to the sound of the viol, whose shall those things be, which and invent to themselves instruments thou hast provided? So is he that lay- of music, like David: That drink eth up treasure for himself, and is not wine in bowls, and anoint themselves rich towards God, Luke xii. 15-21. with the chief ointments; but they Wherefore do the wicked live, become are not grieved for the affliction of Joold, yea, are mighty in power? Their seph. Therefore now shall they go seed is established in their sight with captive with the first that go captive, them, and their offspring before their and the banquet of them that stretched eyes. Their houses are safe from fear, themselves shall be removed, Amos neither is the rod of God upon them. vi. 1-7. Go to now, ye rich men, Their bull gendereth, and faileth not; weep and howl for your miseries that their cow calveth, and casteth not her shall come upon you. Your riches are calf. They send forth their little corrupted, and your garments are ones like a flock, and their children moth-eaten. Your gold and silver is dance. They take the timbrel and cankered; and the rust of them shall harp, and rejoice at the sound of the be a witness against you, and shall organ. They spend their days in eat your flesh as it were fire. Ye have wealth, and in a moment go down to heaped treasure together for the last the grave. Therefore they say unto days, James v. 1-3. God, Depart from us; for we desire not the knowledge of thy ways. What is the Almighty, that we should serve him? and what profit should we have, if we pray unto him? Lo, their good is not in their hand: the counsel of the wicked is far from me. How oft is

There was a certain rich man, which was clothed in purple and fine linen, and fared sumptuously every day: And there was a certain beggar named Lazarus, which was laid at his gate, full of sores, And desiring to be fed with the crumbs which fell

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LUKE VI. 24, 25.

from the rich man's table: moreover, the dogs came and licked his sores. And it came to pass that the beggar died, and was carried by the angels into Abraham's bosom : the rich man also died, and was buried; And in hell he lifted up his eyes, being in torments, and seeth Abraham afar off, and Lazarus in his bosom: And he cried and said, Father Abraham, have mercy on me, and send Lazarus, that he may dip the tip of his finger in water, and cool my tongue; for I am tormented in this flame. But Abraham said, Son, remember that thou in thy life-time receivedst thy good things, and likewise Lazarus evil things: but now he is comforted, and thou art tormented, Luke xvi. 19-25.

VER. 25.

Οὐαὶ ὑμῖν, οἱ ἐμπεπλησμένοι· ὅτι πεινάσετε. Οὐαὶ ὑμῖν, οἱ γελῶντες νῦν· ὅτι πενθήσετε καὶ κλαύσετε.

a Woe unto you that are full! for ye shall hunger. Woe unto you that laugh now! for ye shall mourn and weep.

a And they shall pass through it hardly bestead and hungry: and it shall come to pass, that, when they shall be hungry, they shall fret themselves, and curse their king and their God, and look upward. And they shall look unto the earth, and behold trouble and darkness, dimness of anguish; and they shall be driven to And he darkness, Isa. viii. 21, 22. shall snatch on the right hand, and be hungry; and he shall eat on the left hand, and they shall not be satisfied, ix. 20. Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD, Behold, my servants shall eat, but ye shall be hungry: behold, my servants shall drink, but ye shall be thirsty behold, my servants shall rejoice, but ye shall be ashamed, lxv. 13. b When once the master of the house is risen up, and hath shut to the door, and ye begin to stand without, and to knock at the door, saying, Lord, Lord, open unto us; and he shall answer and say unto you, I know you not whence ye are; 'Then shall ye begin to say, We have eaten and drunk in thy presence, and thou hast taught in our streets. But he shall say, I tell you, I know you not whence ye are; depart from me, all ye workers of iniquity. There shall be weeping and

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gnashing of teeth, when ye shall see
Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob, and
all the prophets, in the kingdom of
God, and you yourselves thrust out.
Luke xiii. 25-28. Knowest thou not
this of old, since man was placed upon
earth, That the triumphing of the
wicked is short, and the joy of the
hypocrite but for a moment? Though
his excellency mount up to the heavens,
and his head reach unto the clouds;
Yet he shall perish for ever like his
own dung: they which have seen him
shall say, Where is he? He shall fly
away as a dream, and shall not be
found; yea, he shall be chased away
as a vision of the night. The eye also
which saw him shall see him no more;
neither shall his place any more be-
hold him. His children shall seek
to please the poor, and his hands shall
restore their goods. His bones are full
of the sin of his youth, which shall lie
down with him in the dust. Though
wickedness be sweet in his mouth,
though he hide it under his tongue;
Though he spare it, and forsake it not,
but keep it still within his mouth;
Yet his meat in his bowels is turned,
it is the gall of asps within him. He
hath swallowed down riches, and he
shall vomit them up again: God shall
cast them out of his belly, Job xx.
4-15. He shall flee from the iron
weapon, and the bow of steel shall
strike him through. It is drawn, and
cometh out of the body; yea, the glit-
tering sword cometh out of his gall:
terrors are upon him. All darkness
shall be hid in his secret places; a fire
not blown shall consume him; it shall
go ill with him that is left in his ta-
bernacle. The heaven shall reveal
his iniquity; and the earth shall rise
up against him. The increase of his
house shall depart, and his goods shall
flow away in the day of his wrath.
This is the portion of a wicked man
from God, and the heritage appointed
unto him by God, 24-29. My heart
panted, fearfulness affrighted me: the
night of my pleasure hath he turned
into fear unto me, Isa. xxi. 4. Behold,
the LORD maketh the earth empty;
and maketh it waste, and turneth it
upside down, and scattereth abroad
the inhabitants thereof. And it shall
be, as with the people, so with the
priest; as with the servant, so with

his master; as with the maid, so with her mistress; as with the buyer, so with the seller; as with the lender, so with the borrower; as with the taker of usury, so with the giver of usury to him. The land shall be utterly emptied, and utterly spoiled; for the LORD hath spoken this word. The earth mourneth, and fadeth away: the world languisheth, and fadeth away; the haughty people of the earth do languish. The earth also is defiled under the inhabitants thereof, because they have transgressed the laws, changed the ordinance, broken the everlasting covenant. Therefore bath the curse devoured the earth, and they that dwell therein are desolate: therefore the inhabitants of the earth

are burned, and few men left. The new wine mourneth, the vine languish eth, all the merry-hearted do sigh. The mirth of tabrets ceaseth, the noise

of them that rejoice endeth, the joy of the harp ceaseth. They shall not drink wine with a song; strong drink

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a Woe unto you, when all men shall speak well of you! for so did their fathers to the false prophets.

a If a man, walking in the spirit and falsehood do lie, saying, I will prophesy unto thee of wine, and of strong drink; he shall even be the If ye were of the world, the world prophet of this people, Mic. ii. 11. would love his own: but because ye are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hateth you, John xv. 19. Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world, is the enemy of God, James iv. 4. They of the world, and the world heareth are of the world: therefore speak they them. We are of God: he that knoweth God, heareth us; he that is not of God, heareth not us. Hereby know we the spirit of truth, and the spirit of error, 1 John iv. 5, 6.

b'Then the king of Israel gathered dred men, and said unto them, Shall the prophets together, about four hun

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shall be bitter to them that drink it. The city of confusion is broken down; every house is shut up, that no man may come in. There is a crying for go against Ramoth-gilead to battle, wine in the streets; all joy is darkenor shall I forbear? And they said, Go ed, the mirth of the land is gone. In up; for the LORD shall deliver it inthe city is left desolation, and the gate to the hand of the king. And Jehois smitten with destruction, xxiv. 1-12. shaphat said, Is there not here a proThe LORD hath sworn by the excel-phet of the LORD besides, that we lency of Jacob, Surely I will never forget any of their works. Shall not the land tremble for this, and every one mourn that dwelleth therein? and it shall rise up wholly as a flood; and it shall be cast out and drowned, as by the flood of Egypt. And it shall come to pass in that day, saith the Lord GoD, that I will cause the sun to go down at noon, and I will darken the earth in the clear day: and I will turn your feasts into mourning, and all your songs into lamentation: and I will bring up sackcloth upon all loins, and baldness upon every head; and I will make it as the mourning of an only son, and the end thereof as a bit ter day, Amos viii. 7—10.

VER. 26.

Οὐαὶ ὑμῖν ὅταν καλῶς ὑμᾶς εἴπωσι πάντες οἱ ἄνθρωποι· κατὰ ταῦτα γὰρ ἐποίουν τοῖς ψευδοπροφήταις οἱ πατέρες αὐτῶν.

might enquire of him? And the king of Israel said unto Jehoshaphat, There Imlah, by whom we may enquire of is yet one man, Micaiah the son of the LORD; but I hate him; for he doth not prophesy good concerning me, but evil. And Jehoshaphat said, Let not the king say so, 1 Kings xxii. 6-8. And the messenger that was gone to call Micaiah spake unto him, saying, Behold now, the words of the prophets declare good unto the king with one mouth : let thy word, I pray thee, be like the word of one of them, and speak that which is good, 13. Which say to the seers, See not; and to the prophets, Prophesy not unto us right things; speak unto us smooth things, prophesy deceits, Isa. xxx. 10. The prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests bear rule by their means; and my people love to have it so: and what will ye do in the end thereof? Jer. v. 31. But there were false pro

Τῷ τύπτοντί σε ἐπὶ τὴν σιαγόνα, πάρεχε καὶ τὴν ἄλλην· καὶ ἀπὸ τοῦ αἵροντός σου τὸ ἱμάτιον, καὶ τὸν χιτῶνα μὴ και λύσης.

And unto him that smiteth thee on the one cheek offer also the other ; and him that taketh away thy cloak forbid not to take thy coat also.

[But I say unto you, That ye resist not evil: but whosoever shall smite thee on thy right cheek, turn to him the other also. And if any man will sue thee at the law, and take away thy coat, let him have thy cloak also, Matt. v. 39, 40.]

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Καὶ καθὼς θέλετε ἵνα ποιῶσιν ὑμῖν οἱ ἄνθρωποι, καὶ ὑμεῖς ποιεῖτε αὐτοῖς ὁμοίως. a And as ye would that men should do you, do ye also to them likewise.

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[Therefore all things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them: for this is the Law and the Prophets, Matt. vii. 12.] a See on Matt. vii. ver. 12.

VER. 32.

Καὶ εἰ ἀγαπᾶτε τοὺς ἀγαπῶντας ὑμᾶς, ποία ὑμῖν χάρις ἐστί; καὶ γὰρ οἱ ἁμαρ τωλοὶ τοὺς ἀγαπῶντας αὐτοὺς ἀγαπῶσι.

a For if ye love them which love you, what thank have ye? for sinners also love those that love them.

[For if ye love them which love you, what reward have ye? do not even the Publicans the same? Matt. v. 46.]

a See on Matt. v. ver. 46.

VER. 33.

Καὶ ἐὰν ἀγαθοποιῆτε τοὺς ἀγαθοποιοῦν οἱ ἁμαρτωλοὶ τὸ αὐτὸ ποιοῦσι. τας ὑμᾶς, ποία ὑμῖν χάρις ἐστί; καὶ γὰρ

And if ye do good to them which do good to you, what thank have ye? for sinners also do even the same.

* See on Matt. v. ver. 39, 10. VER. 30. Παντὶ δὲ τῷ αἰτοῦντί σε, δίδου· καὶ ἀπὸ πονηρούς. τοῦ αἵροντος τὰ σὰν μὴ ἀπαίτει.

Give to every man that asketh of thee; and of him that taketh away thy goods ask them not again.

[Give to him that asketh thee, and from bim that would borrow of thee turn not thou away, Matt. v. 42.] a See on Matt. v. ver. 42.

a But love ye your enemies, and do good, and lend, hoping for nothing again; and your reward shall be great, and ye shall be the children of the Highest: for he is kind unto the unthankful and to the evil.

[That ye may be the children of your Father which is in heaven: for

Ε πῶς δύνασαι λέγειν τῷ ἀδελφῷ σου ̓Αδελφὲ, ἄφες ἐκβάλω τὸ κάρφος, τὸ ἐν τῷ b See on Matt. vi. ver. 12. clause 3. ὀφθαλμῷ σου, αὐτὸς τὴν ἐν τῷ ὀφθαλμῷ