The Biblical Illustrator: St. Luke, Vol. I

by Joseph S. Exell

Publisher:

J. Nisbet & Co.

, n.d.

Overview

Including contributions from celebrated preachers and theologians, The Biblical Illustrator provides historical and cultural insight, commentary, illustrations, and more to make your sermons engaging and practical. This volume covers the first seven chapters of the Gospel of Luke.

Contents

Top Highlights

“A Roman, he cared nothing for the Hebrews. A pagan, he knew nothing of Messianic prophecies. His issuing a decree of enrolment was nothing unnatural or extraordinary; it was one of the commonest acts of a political ruler, and he himself was one of the most methodical of men.” (Page 113)

“scriptural, the uncertain with the certain, we are able” (Page vi)

“For in St. Luke, He is pre-eminently the Son of Man; loving, pitying, pardoning a fallen race; anointed to preach the Gospel to the poor; leaving the ninety and nine that He may bear the lost with all the strength and tenderness of that Divine Manhood; dying, and rising again, that repentance and remission may be preached to all.… Not written by a painter, this is yet a painter’s Gospel. From it come the favourite subjects: The Virgin and Child, Simeon, the Scene with the Doctors in the Temple, the Ascension.” (Page x)

“When Almighty God in old time did long delay to give the blessing of children to holy women, He rewarded their expectation with the birth of some eminent and extraordinary person. Thus Sarah, after long barrenness, brought forth an Isaac; Rebecca, a Jacob; Rachel, a Joseph; Hannah, a Samuel; and Elisabeth, St. John Baptist.” (Page 15)

“At the sight of those wars and revolutions that upset the world you feel inclined to imagine that God no longer governs the world or those in it. You are mistaken, God permits that these awful catastrophes should take place, just for the salvation and perfection of this or that person whom the world knows not.” (Page 112)

Product Details

• Title: St. Luke, Vol. I
• Author: Joseph S. Exell
• Series: The Biblical Illustrator
• Volume: I
• Publisher: J. Nisbet & Co.
• Print Publication Date: n.d.
• Logos Release Date: 2018
• Era: era:modern
• Language: English
• Resources: 1
• Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
• Subject: Bible. N.T. Luke 1-7 › Commentaries
• Resource ID: LLS:BBLCLLLSTRTR63LU01
• Resource Type: Bible Commentary
• Metadata Last Updated: 2022-01-10T20:30:18Z

About Joseph S. Exell

Joseph S. Exell (1849–1910) was the editor of Clerical World, Homiletical Quarterly, and the Monthly Interpreter. He was also the editor of The Men of the Bible, The Pulpit Commentary, and The Preacher’s Homiletic Library commentaries.