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Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - Luke 10:28

28. Answered… do and thou shalt live It requires no depth of penitent conviction in the lawyer, but simply a proper appreciation of the words he has uttered, to see that he is damned with all his race. For the direction do this governs both his whole past and his whole future. Has he kept it in the past? Will he, can he, keep it in the future? That is a hopeless case. But under this law the live depends upon the do. Death, therefore, is the only result. read more

Daniel Whedon

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - Luke 10:29

29. Justify himself The lawyer sees that he is proved to have asked a question both very easy to answer and very condemning in the answer. To justify himself in both these respects, he would show that there is a deeper bottom to the subject; and that at that bottom he may be saved. He resorts for this purpose to a definition of terms. He might fight a battle upon several of the particular words. What is love? what is heart, strength, etc.? If they mean one thing, I am, indeed, damned.... read more

Daniel Whedon

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - Luke 10:30

30. A certain man This man is doubtless to be supposed a Jew, since he goes from Jerusalem. But our Lord chooses to state him to be simply and purely a man. Went down from Jerusalem to Jericho From the heights of the mountains upon which Jerusalem was built, to the vale of the Jordan, in which Jericho stood, (eighteen miles distant,) is almost a constant descent. This man, we may suppose, takes the usual route. Starting from what is now St. Stephen’s gate, through the eastern wall of... read more

Daniel Whedon

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - Luke 10:31

31. By chance By a concurrence or coincidence of the two things. A certain priest Very naturally; for Jericho was by law a sacerdotal city; that is, a city for the residence of the priests who, in their turn, went up to Jerusalem to perform their office at the Temple. No less than twelve thousand priests here lived, one or more of whom were daily seen walking this route. On the other side He availed himself of the broad road to sheer away from the victim. read more

Daniel Whedon

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - Luke 10:32

32. A Levite A Levite was one of the tribe of Levi; a priest was of the family of Aaron in that tribe. The Levites performed the humble services of the temple, as cleaning, carrying fuel, and acting as choristers. Levites were also writers, teachers, preachers, and literati. The scribes and lawyers were frequently of this tribe, which, in fact, was set apart by Moses as the intellectual body in the nation. read more

Daniel Whedon

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - Luke 10:33

33. A certain Samaritan To what we have said in regard to the Samaritan, in our note on Matthew 10:5, (to which we refer the reader,) we may add that it is denied by Dr. Trench, in his work on the Parables, that the Samaritan had any Hebrew blood in him. Before they were brought from Assyria the land of Samaria had been cleared of its Hebrew inhabitants to a man, and room made for a purely Gentile importation. Robinson tells us that the Samaritans of the present day present not the Jewish... read more

Daniel Whedon

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - Luke 10:34

34. Went to him First he saw him at a distance, as lying in his blood, yet living. Next he had compassion on him. Third, he did not pass around him, nor pass on from him, but went to him. He closed the lips of his gashes and bound them up. He had probably none of the balsam for which Jericho was in that day famous. But he had some of that oil which the Orientals consider so beneficial in their hot climate, the expressed juice of the olive. See note on Matthew 6:17. So Jacob,... read more

Daniel Whedon

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - Luke 10:35

35. Two pence Which, being the amount of the wages of a labourer for two days, was more than as many dollars’ worth in our time. Take care of him The inns of the ancients supplied nothing but room and lodging, it being expected that the traveller carried his own supplies. I will repay He asked no aid in his charity, as if the doing of good was his own business and its own reward. read more

Daniel Whedon

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - Luke 10:36

36. Which… was neighbour? Dr. Trench, and other commentators of the present day, with doubtful correctness, we think, say that our Lord here reverses the question. The lawyer, they suppose, asks, Who is to be held as a neighbour to be loved? Whereas the real present form of the question is, Who becomes my neighbour by loving? Our Lord supposes the lawyer to identify himself with the wounded Jew; and thereby proceeds to force him by the parable to confess that even a Samaritan may be... read more

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