Luke 12:13-30

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Luke 12:22

Luke 12:22. Take no thought— Be not solicitous. Our Lord, having delivered the parable of the rich glutton, proceeded in the charge: and because a hurry of business is often a great enemy to religious dispositions, he cautioned his disciples against anxious cares about the world, from the consideration of God's providence, which is so extensively perfect, as to comprehend all his works, great and small, without exception. The caution to beware of covetousness, and the parable whereby he... read more

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Luke 12:24

Luke 12:24. Consider the ravens:— See Matthew 6:26. Dr. Heylin renders the last clause in this verse, Of how much greater value are ye than the fowls? read more

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Luke 12:26

Luke 12:26. To do that thing which is least,— This proves, that to add one cubit to a thing, was a proverbial expression for making the least addition to it. read more

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Luke 12:29

Luke 12:29. Neither be ye of doubtful mind.— Neither be ye set afloat [with desire] Μη μετεωριζεσθε : "Be not (like meteors in the air, which are tossed about by every blast of wind) hurried with anxious cares, and agitated with a variety of restless and uneasy thoughts." Any speculations and musings, in which the mind fluctuates or is suspended in an uneasy hesitation, might well be expressed by the word μετεωριζω . read more

Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Luke 12:13

13. Master, c.—that is, "Great Preacher of righteousness, help there is need of Thee in this rapacious world; here am I the victim of injustice, and that from my own brother, who withholds from me my rightful share of the inheritance that has fallen to us." In this most inopportune intrusion upon the solemnities of our Lord's teaching, there is a mixture of the absurd and the irreverent, the one, however, occasioning the other. The man had not the least idea that his case was not of as urgent a... read more

Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Luke 12:14

14. Man, c.—Contrast this style of address with "my friends," ( :-). who, &c.—a question literally repudiating the office which Moses assumed ( :-). The influence of religious teachers in the external relations of life has ever been immense, when only the INDIRECT effect of their teaching but whenever they intermeddle DIRECTLY with secular and political matters, the spell of that influence is broken. read more

Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Luke 12:15

15. unto them—the multitude around Him (Luke 12:1). of covetousness—The best copies have "all," that is, "every kind of covetousness"; because as this was one of the more plausible forms of it, so He would strike at once at the root of the evil. a man's life, &c.—a singularly weighty maxim, and not less so because its meaning and its truth are equally evident. read more

Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Luke 12:16

16-19. a certain rich man, &c.—Why is this man called a "fool?" ( :-) (1) Because he deemed a life of secure and abundant earthly enjoyment the summit of human felicity. (2) Because, possessing the means of this, through prosperity in his calling, he flattered himself that he had a long lease of such enjoyment, and nothing to do but give himself up to it. Nothing else is laid to his charge. read more

Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Luke 12:20

20, 21. this night, &c.—This sudden cutting short of his career is designed to express not only the folly of building securely upon the future, but of throwing one's whole soul into what may at any moment be gone. "Thy soul shall be required of thee" is put in opposition to his own treatment of it, "I will say to my soul, Soul," &c. whose shall those things be, &c.—Compare Psalms 39:6, "He heapeth up riches and knoweth not who shall gather them." read more

Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Luke 12:21

21. So is he, c.—Such is a picture of his folly here, and of its awful issue. and is not rich toward God—lives to amass and enjoy riches which terminate on self, but as to the riches of God's favor, which is life ( :-), of "precious" faith (2 Peter 1:1 James 2:5), of good works (James 2:5- :), of wisdom which is better than rubies (James 2:5- :) —lives and dies a beggar! read more

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