Luke 11:37-44

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Luke 11:37

To dine - Ὁπως αριϚηση . The word αριστειν dignifies the first eating of the day. The Jews made but two meals in the day; their αριστον may be called their breakfast or their dinner, because it was both, and was but a slight meal. Their chief meal was their δειπνον or supper, after the heat of the day was over; and the same was the principal meal among the Greeks and Romans. Josephus, in his Life, says, sect. 54, that the legal hour of the αριστον , on the Sabbath, was the sixth... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Luke 11:38

First washed - See on Mark 7:2-4 ; (note). read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Luke 11:39

Ye - make clean the outside - See on Matthew 23:25 ; (note). read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Luke 11:40

Did not he that made that which is without - Did not the maker of the dish form it so, both outwardly and inwardly, as to answer the purpose for which it was made? And can it answer this purpose without being clean in the inside as well as on the outside? God has made you such, both as to your bodies and souls, as he intended should show forth his praise; but can you think that the purpose of God can be accomplished by you while you only attend to external legal purifications, your hearts... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Luke 11:41

Give alms of such things as ye have - Meaning either what was within the dishes spoken of before; or what was within their houses or power: or what they had at hand, for so τα ενοντα is used by the purest Greek writers. Cease from rapine: far from spoiling the poor by wicked exactions, rather give them alms of every thing you possess; and when a part of every thing you have is sincerely consecrated to God for the use of the poor, then all that remains will be clean unto you; you will have... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Luke 11:42

Ye tithe mint and rue - See on Matthew 23:23 ; (note). read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Luke 11:43

Ye love the uppermost seats - Every one of them affected to be a ruler in the synagogues. See on Matthew 23:5 ; (note). read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Luke 11:44

Ye are as graves which appear not - In Matthew 23:27 , our Lord tells them that they exactly resembled white-washed tombs: they had no fairness but on the outside: (see the note there) but here he says they are like hidden tombs, graves which were not distinguished by any outward decorations, and were not elevated above the ground, so that those who walked over them did not consider what corruption was within; so they, under the veil of hypocrisy, covered their iniquities, so that those... read more

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Luke 11:37

Verse 37 This narrative agrees in some respects, but not entirely, with the doctrine laid down by Matthew, (Matthew 10:1,) that Christ, in order to correct the superstition of the people, and particularly of the scribes, intentionally disregarded outward ceremonies of human invention, which the Jews were too solicitous to observe. God had prescribed in his Law certain kinds of washings, that by means of them he might train his people usefully to the consideration of true purity. The Jews, not... read more

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Luke 11:39

Verse 39 39.Now you Pharisees Christ does not here charge the Pharisees, as in Matthew, (Matthew 15:1,) and Mark, (Mark 12:2,) with serving God in an improper manner by human inventions, and breaking the law of God for the sake of their traditions; but merely glances at their hypocrisy, in having no desire of purity except before the eyes of men, as if they had not to deal with God. Now this reproof applies to all hypocrites, even to those who believe that righteousness consists in ceremonies... read more

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