And Jesus said unto him, This day is salvation come to this house, forsomuch as he also is a son of Abraham.
And Jesus said unto him (and this also before all, and for the information of all), This day is salvation come to this house. Memorable saying! Salvation has already come, but it is not a day nor an hour old. The word "to this house" was probably designed to meet the taunt, 'He is gone to lodge at a sinner's house.' The house, says Jesus, is no longer a sinner's house polluted and polluting: ''Tis now a saved house, all meet for the reception of Him who came to save.' What a precious idea is salvation to a house, expressing the new air that would henceforth breathe in it, and the new impulses from its head which would reach its members.
Forsomuch as he also, х kathoti (G2530) kai (G2532) autos (G846)] - 'inasmuch as even he,' publican though he be, and acting until now in the unprincipled way which even himself has confessed-even he
Is a son of Abraham. He was that by birth, but here it means a partaker of Abraham's faith, being mentioned as the sufficient explanation of salvation having come to him. (Galatians 3:26; Galatians 3:29; and for Abraham's faith as evidenced by works, as here, see James 2:22.)