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The Pulpit Commentary - Luke 4:18

The poor and the gospel. A most significant fact that the first work of the Messiah should be his "preaching the gospel to the poor." What is the significance of it? I. BY THE POOR DIVINE TRUTH IS MOST NEEDED . Their life on earth is the hardest; it is often one of unremitting toil ; often one of severe privation , almost destitute comfort and enjoyment; often one of serious and hard oppression , in which the strong will of another robs of all liberty of action.... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Luke 4:18

Healing the broken-hearted. We have a supreme want, but we have a Divine remedy. I. THE BROKEN HUMAN HEART . There are two things which break hearts: 1 . One is intolerable shame ; the shame which comes from a crushing sense of sin; it may be of flagrant sin, such as commands the deep indignation and strong censure of our fellowmen, and involves the loss of our own self-respect; or it may be a sense of that common sin of which all the souls of men are guilty in the... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Luke 4:18

Spiritual bondage and Christian freedom. Who does not pity the captive? Saddening to the sympathetic heart is the thought of the man who is confined within his lonely and dreary cell, shut in from the beauties and melodies of nature, excluded from the haunts of men, debarred from all the activities of busy life, unable to enter his own home, compelled to unwilling solitude and separation from those he loves! There is no prayer that we breathe with a finer or fuller feeling than the... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Luke 4:18

Spiritual blindness. "The recovering of sight to the blind." We think of— I. THE BADNESS OF BLINDNESS , and its degrees. "It must be very bad to be blind," we say; probably we but faintly realize what it means. 1 . It is bad to be physically blind—to look on no scenery, to read no book, to behold no countenance, to recognize no love in a human face, to grope our way in the thick darkness. 2 . It is worse to be mentally blind—to see, and not to see; to open the eyes... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Luke 4:18

The bruised. "To set at liberty them that are bruised." And who may they be who are thus characterized? and in what way does Jesus Christ meet their especial need? I. BRUISED SOULS . We find these in: 1 . Those who are chafed with the worries of life; whose disposition is such, or whose circumstances are such, that they are harassed and fretted by a multitude of minor conflicts with men and things; who are in danger of losing or have lost their mental equilibrium as the... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Luke 4:20

And he closed the book, and he gave it again to the minister, and sat down . This was the usual position adopted by a Jewish preacher. The chair of the preacher was placed near the spot where the lesson was read. These synagogues were built with the end pointed towards Jerusalem, in which direction the Jew ever loved to turn as he prayed ( Daniel 6:10 ). The men sat on one side of the building, the women on the other. There was always at the end of the chamber an ark of wood, a memory of... read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Luke 4:17

There was delivered unto him - By the minister of the synagogue, or the keeper of the sacred books. They were kept in an “ark” or chest, not far from the pulpit, and the minister gave them to whomsoever he chose, to read them publicly.The book - The volume contained the prophecy of Isaiah. It would seem, from this, that the books were kept separate, and not united into one as with us.When he had opened the book - Literally, when he had “unrolled” the book. Books, among the ancients, were... read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Luke 4:18

The Spirit of the Lord is upon me - Or, I speak by divine appointment. I am divinely inspired to speak. There can be no doubt that the passage in Isaiah had a principal reference to the Messiah. Our Saviour directly applies it to himself, and it is not easily applicable to any other prophet. Its first application might have been to the restoration of the Jews from Babylon; but the language of prophecy is often applicable to two similar events, and the secondary event is often the most... read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Luke 4:19

To peach the acceptable year of the Lord - The time when God is willing to accept of people, or to receive sinners coming to him. The gospel assures us that the guilty “may” return, and that God will graciously receive them. There is, perhaps, here, an allusion to the year of jubilee - the fiftieth year, when the trumpet was blown, and through the whole land proclamation was made of the liberty of Hebrew slaves, of the remission of debts, and of the restoration of possessions to their original... read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Luke 4:20

And he closed the book - That is, he rolled it up again. See the notes at Luke 4:17.And he gave it again to the minister - That is, to the one in the synagogue who had charge of the books. The word means “servant,” and the office was not much unlike that of a sexton now. It was his duty, among other things, to take charge of the books, to hand them to the reader of the law, and then return them to their place.And sat down - This was usual in speaking in their synagogues. See the notes at... read more

The Pulpit Commentary - Luke 4:18

The Pulpit Commentary - Luke 4:18

The Pulpit Commentary - Luke 4:18

The Pulpit Commentary - Luke 4:18

The Pulpit Commentary - Luke 4:18

The Pulpit Commentary - Luke 4:20

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Luke 4:17

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Luke 4:18

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Luke 4:19

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Luke 4:20

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