“ Remember Lot's wife. ”
Remember Lot’s wife - See Genesis 19:26 . “She” looked back - she delayed - perhaps she “desired” to take something with her, and God made her a monument of his displeasure. Jesus directed his d...
Luke 17. The chapter illustrates the difficulty experienced by Lk. in using the material at his disposal. He here brings together without any clear connexion of thought a selection of sayings of Ch...
Remember, &c. Figure of speech Exemplum. See Genesis 19:26 , Ind App-117.
DISCOURSE: 1555 LOT’S WIFE Luke 17:32 . Remember Lot’s wife . IT is necessary for mariners frequently to consult charts or maps, which have been formed for the purpose of pointing out to them t...
Remember Lot's wife. Remember Lot's wife - Relinquish every thing, rather than lose your souls. She looked back, Genesis 19:26 ; probably she turned back also to carry some of her goods away - for s...
Remember Lot's wife.— This unfortunate woman had been informed by angels of the destruction of Sodom, and promised deliverance; but was expressly forbidden to look back, on any account, in the ti...
Remember Lot's wife. Remember Lot's wife - her "look back" and her doom. Her heart was in Sodom still, and that "look" just said, 'Ah, Sodom! and shall I never enter, never see thee again? mu...
Occasions of Offence. The Ten Lepers. The Second Advent 1, 2. On causing others to sin. See on Matthew 18:6 ; Matthew 18:7 . 2, One of these little ones ] An affectionate designation of the di...
Remember Lot’s wife. — The reference to this, as to the history of Lot generally, is peculiar to St. Luke, and speaks strongly for the independence of his Gospel. The account of Lot’s wife had, how...
“The Days of the Son of Man” Luke 17:22-37 Clearly enough, our Lord foresaw the approaching dissolution of the Jewish state. There was no help for it, notwithstanding all that the Baptist and C...
The thinking of the Master for His disciples is always that they should live in love. He knew, however, that offenses must come. In that connection He uttered the solemn word of warning, "Woe unto hi...
(22) And he said unto the disciples, The days will come when ye shall desire to see one of the days of the Son of man, and ye shall not see it. (23) And they shall say to you, See here, or see there:...
Remember Lot's wife. Whose name by the Jews, is said to be Adith, as some s; or Irith, as others t: and who, they also say, was a native of Sodom; and that the reason of her looking, was either to...
Remember Lot's wife. Ver. 32. Remember Lot's wife ] Who either out of curiosity or covetousness turned her back, and she was turned. We are as hardly drawn off the world as a dog from a fat morse...
In that day (Which will be the grand type of the last day,) when ye shall see Jerusalem encompassed with armies; he which shall be upon the house-top, let him not come down See on Matthew 24:17-...
GRACE IN VIEW OF OFFENSES (vs.1-4) We have seen the grace of God clearly and beautifully declared, yet the world rejecting it. The Lord Jesus then spoke to His disciples. What should be their att...
The Progress of Christ's Kingdom; Destruction of Jerusalem. 20 And when he was demanded of the Pharisees, when the kingdom of God s...
We have the story Genesis 19:26 . She looked back from behind him, and she became a pillar of salt. Lot and his family leaving Sodom, she either looked back as not believing what the angel had s...
“Remember Lot's wife.” The second illustration is Lot's wife.' She did look back. Unlike Lot, her heart was in Sodom and not with God. She was reluctant to leave. And she became an example of all wh...
CRITICAL NOTES Luke 17:20 . Demanded of the Pharisees .—We can scarcely think that they had any good end in view in asking this question; it is probable they expected to get some answer which mi...
Luke 17:32 We have in this text a warning of a peculiar character; we see in it a type of the just wrath of God against those who, having been once mercifully delivered, shall afterwards fall back...
Luke 17:11-12 . And it came to pass, as he went to Jerusalem, that he passed through the midst of Samaria and Galilee. And as he entered into a certain village, there met him ten men that were lepe...
Luke 17:1 . It is impossible but that offences will come. Such as the disciples had just seen, the contempt and derision evinced by the pharisees; but woe to the man, and woe to the nation which s...
Remember Lot’ s wife Almost saved, yet lost Lot’s wife--a nameless sinner in a half-forgotten age! I. WHAT IS THERE TO REMEMBER IN THE CASE OF LOT’S WIFE? See Genesis 19:26 . So soon and s...
EXPOSITION Luke 17:1-42 The Master ' s teaching on the subject of the injury worked on the souls of others by our sins. The disciples pray for an increase of faith that they may be kept...
Final warnings:
1 Corinthians 10:6-12 ; 2 Peter 2:18-22 ; Genesis 19:17 ; Genesis 19:26 ; Hebrews 10:38 ; Hebrews 10:39
Remember Lot's wife — And escape with all speed, without ever looking behind you. Luke 9:24 ; John 12:25 .