Verse 2
Saying, There was in a city a judge, who feared not God, and regarded not man.
Such a judge would have been one of those notorious magistrates appointed by either Herod or the Romans, and of whom Barclay said, "Unless a plaintiff had money and influence to bribe his way to a verdict, he had no hope of ever getting his case settled."[4]
Feared not God and regarded not man ... "These things go together. He that has no regard for God can be expected to have none for man."[5]
[4] William Barclay, The Gospel of Luke (Philadelphia: The Westminster Press, 1956), p. 230.
[5] Albert Barnes, Notes on the New Testament (Grand Rapids, Michigan: Baker Book House, 1954), p. 126.
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