“ And the Lord said, Hear what the unjust judge saith. ”
Hear ... - Give attention to this, and derive from it practical instruction.
Parable of the Unrighteous Judge (Lk. only). There is a connexion with the preceding sayings; the Advent may be delayed, yet the disciples should incessantly pray for it it will surely come. The pa...
the unjust judge . the judge of injustice. Greek. adikia. App-128.
DISCOURSE: 1557 THE IMPORTUNATE WIDOW Luke 18:6-8 . And the Lord said, Hear what the unjust judge saith. And shall not God avenge his own elect, which cry day and night unto him, though he bear...
And the Lord said, Hear what the unjust judge saith. Hear what the unjust judge saith - Our blessed Lord intimates that we should reason thus with ourselves: "If a person of such an infamous characte...
And the Lord said, Hear what the unjust judge saith. And the Lord - a name expressive of the authoritative style in which He now interpreted His own parable, "said, Hear what the unjust judge...
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...
The unjust judge. — Literally, the judge of injustice, as with the unjust steward in Luke 16:8 , the usual adjective giving way to the stronger, more Hebraic idiom of the characterising genitive...
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...
the Lesson for Dark Days Luke 18:1-8 There are three phases in our Lord's teaching about prayer-that of Matthew 6:1-34 ; Luke 18:1-43 , and the words of John 14:1-31 ; John 15:1-27 . In Lu...
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...
(6) And the Lord said, Hear what the unjust judge saith. (7) And shall not God avenge his own elect, which cry day and night unto him, though he bear long with them? (8) I tell you, That he will aven...
And the Lord said ,.... The Lord Jesus Christ, who delivered out this parable to his disciples: hear what the unjust judge saith ; and take encouragement from hence to be frequent and importunate...
And the Lord said, Hear what the unjust judge saith. Ver. 6. Hear what the unjust judge saith ] Hic paria non inter se conferuntur, sed minus cum maiore, saith Beza.
And the Lord said, Hear what the unjust judge saith “If the repeated, importunate cries of the afflicted do at length make an impression on the hearts even of men so wicked as to glory in their imp...
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 Unjust Judge. 1 And he spake a parable unto them to this end, that men ought always to pray, and not to faint; 2 Saying, Th...
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The Parable of the Unrighteous Judge (18:1-8). As Luke 18:8 b makes clear, this parable looks directly back to Jesus' prophecy which describes Himself as coming as the Son of Man in Luke 17:24...
CRITICAL NOTES Luke 18:1 And He spake a parable .—This parable is closely connected with the preceding discourse about the second coming of Christ. The widow is the Church; the judge is God, wh...
Luke 18:6-7 I. What is the central thought of this parable? The answer to this question is obvious. The central thought of the parable is the advantage to be derived from importunity in prayer. An...
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...
Men ought always to pray, and not to faint The strange weapon-All-prayer While Christian was in the Palace Beautiful, they showed him all the remarkable objects in the armory, from the ox-goad...
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,...
And the Lord said, Hear what the unjust judge saith.