Luke 18:1 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Bible Comments

a parable. Both parables peculiar to Luke. Only here that the explanation is put first.

to this end, &c. Greek. pros (App-104.) to dein. to the purport that it is necessary, &c.

always. Figure of speech Synecdoche (of Genus), App-6. = on alloccasions. perseveringly.

pray. Greek. proseuchomai. App-134.

not. Greek. me. App-105.

to faint. to lose heart, be discouraged, give in, or give up. Greek. egkakeo.

Luke 18:1

1 And he spake a parable unto them to this end, that men ought always to pray, and not to faint;