The Biblical Illustrator: St. Luke, Vol. III
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 chapters 14–24 of the Gospel of Luke.
Top Highlights
“Affliction quickens to prayer; but those who remember God in their distresses often forget Him in their deliverances” (Page 298)
“The first fact of religions experience which this parable suggests to us is that common truth—men desert the world when the world deserts them. The renegade came to himself when there were no more husks to eat. He would have remained away if he could have got them, but it is written, ‘no man gave unto him.’ And this is the record of our shame. Invitation is not enough; we must be driven to God. And the famine comes not by chance. God sends the famine into the soul—the hunger, and thirst, and the disappointment—to bring back his erring child again.” (Page 113)
“His love to Jesus was genuine and sincere—for with all his failings Peter was no hypocrite; yet he not infrequently resists the will of his Master, and at times is positively ashamed of Him. He is zealously affected in every good thing, but his zeal is often unthinking and impetuous, and proceeds from a self-confident and self-righteous rather than a humble and trustful spirit of dependence on God; and it comes forth when it should be restrained, and fails when it should flow.” (Page 520)
“Their common misery drew these natural enemies, the Jews and the Samaritans, together. The national prejudice of each was destroyed. Under these circumstances the border was a favourable retreat for them. The border population is always freer from prejudice and more open to influence.” (Page 297)
“It does not lie primarily in yourselves—in the liveliness of your feelings or the strength of your resolutions.” (Page 520)
- Title: St. Luke, Vol. III
- Author: Joseph S. Exell
- Series: The Biblical Illustrator
- Volume: III
- Publisher: Francis Griffiths
- Print Publication Date: 1904
- Logos Release Date: 2018
- Era: era:modern
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
- Subject: Bible. N.T. Luke 14-24 › Commentaries
- Resource ID: LLS:BBLCLLLSTRTR63LU03
- Resource Type: Bible Commentary
- Metadata Last Updated: 2022-01-10T20:30:20Z