Luke 14:21 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Bible Comments

shewed. reported to.

lord. App-98.

the master of the house. App-98. Note these different titles, appropriate to each case, and see App-140.

the city. Jerusalem. See App-140.

the poor. Note the Figure of speech Polysyndeton (App-6) in this verse, emphasizing each class (with no climax at the end). The opposite of the Figure of speech in verses: Luke 14:13; Luke 14:14.

and. This is the Figure.

halt. lame. The same word as "lame" in Luke 14:13.

Luke 14:21

21 So that servant came, and shewed his lord these things. Then the master of the house being angry said to his servant, Go out quickly into the streets and lanes of the city, and bring in hither the poor, and the maimed, and the halt, and the blind.