“ I fast twice in the week, I give tithes of all that I possess. ”
I fast twice ... - This was probably the Jewish custom. The Pharisees are said to have fasted regularly on the second and fifth days of every week in private. This was “in addition” to the public...
Parable of the Pharisee and the Publican (Lk. only). In Luke 18:9 we should perhaps translate concerning those who trusted, etc. The parable, not necessarily spoken on the same occasion as the pr...
twice in the week . The law prescribed only one in the year ( Leviticus 16:29 ; Numbers 29:7 ). By the time of Zechariah 8:19 there were four yearly fasts. In our Lord's day they were bi-weekly...
12. I fast twice in the week, I give tithes of all that I possess. This is equivalent to saying that he performed more than the law required; just as the Popish monks talk loftily of their w...
I fast twice in the week, I give tithes of all that I possess. I give tithes of all that I possess - Or, of all I acquire, κτωμαι. Raphelius has well observed, that this verb, in the present tense,...
I fast twice, &c.— The sins which the Pharisee mentioned, being such as were severally charged on the publicans, and the duties such as that sort of men were supposed to neglect, it shewed...
I fast twice in the week, I give tithes of all that I possess. I fast twice in the week, I give tithes (or the tenth) of all that I possess, х ktoomai ( G2932 )] - or 'acquire;' 'of all m...
The Unjust Judge. The Pharisee and the Publican. The Rich Ruler 1-8. The Unjust Judge (peculiar to Lk). There is a close connexion with what precedes. The mention of the Second Advent leads Chris...
I fast twice in the week. — From the negative side of his self-analysis the Pharisee passes to the positive. The Stoic Emperor is a little less systematic, or rather groups his thanksgiving after a...
Luke 18:1-14 Chapter 11 CONCERNING PRAYER. WHEN the Greeks called man ό ανθρωπος, or the "uplooking one," they did but crystallize in a word what is a universal fact, the religious instinct o...
Those Whom God Accepts Luke 18:9-17 We are taught here the spirit in which we should pray. Too many pray “with themselves.” The only time that we may thank God for not being as others is when w...
Two parables on prayer are here given. The first insists on its necessity as an alternative to fainting. The second reveals the secrets of prevailing prayer, namely, humility and a deep sense of need...
(9) And he spake this parable unto certain which trusted in themselves, that they were righteous, and despised others: (10) Two men went up into the temple to pray: the one a Pharisee, and the other...
I fast twice in the week ,.... Not "on the sabbath", as the words may be literally rendered, and as they are in the Vulgate Latin and Ethiopic versions; for the sabbath was not a fasting, but a feas...
I fast twice in the week, I give tithes of all that I possess. Ver. 12. I fast twice a week ] Cardinal Bellarmine did more, for he fasted thrice a week, saith he that writes his life. John, Archb...
The Pharisee stood and prayed thus with himself The original clause, σταθεις προς εαυτον ταυτα προσηυχετο, it seems, should rather be rendered, standing by himself prayed these things. Read thus,...
GRACE PRODUCING PERSISTENT PRAYER (vs.1-8) This section connects with the subjects of chapter 17. We have seen in the four sections of that chapter that the gospel of grace produces in the believ...
The Pharisee and the Publican. 9 And he spake this parable unto certain which trusted in themselves that they were righteous, and d...
Twice in the sabbath, saith the Greek, but that is ordinary, to denominate the days of the week from the sabbath; the meaning is, twice between sabbath and sabbath. Those learned in the Jewish Rabbin...
The Parable Of The One Who Trusted In Himself That He Was Supremely Acceptable to God, And Was Not, And The One Who Was Doubtful About His Acceptability With God Who Was Made Fully Acceptable (18:9-...
CRITICAL NOTES Luke 18:9 . Unto certain .—This parable is not addressed to Pharisees, but to some of His own followers who were Pharisaical at heart. Despised .—Or “set at nought” (R.V.). Othe...
Luke 18:10-13 There are five points in which the Pharisee and the publican agree; there are five points in which they differ, and there are five special lessons which the incident urges upon the a...
Luke 18:1 . And he spake a parable unto them to this end, that men ought always to pray, and not to faint; «Not to faint» in their expectation of answers to their supplications, and therefore giv...
Luke 18:1 . Men ought always to pray, and not to faint. We have continual wants, and God is always ready to hear. And as we must always be thinking of good or of evil, it is best to set the Lord a...
Two men went up into the temple to pray. Whom the Lord receives Observe, from the parable-- I. HOW GOD LOOKS UPON THE HEART, RATHER THAN UPON THE OUTWARD APPEARANCE. It is not the spoken ser...
EXPOSITION Luke 18:1-42 The Lord speaks the two parables on prayer — the importunate widow, and the Pharisee and publican. Luke 18:1 And he spake a parable unto them to this end,...
The Pharisee and the Publican. The Pharisee:
1 Corinthians 1:29 ; 1 Samuel 15:13 ; 1 Timothy 4:8 ; 2 Kings 10:16 ; Ephesians 2:9 ; Galatians 1:14 ; Isaiah 1:15 ; Isaiah 58:2 ; Isaiah 58:3 ; Leviticus 27:30-33 ; Luke 11:42 ; Luke 17:...
I fast twice in the week — So did all the strict Pharisees: every Monday and Thursday. I give tithes of all that I possess — Many of them gave one full tenth of their income in tithes, and another...