Sermon Bible Commentary - Luke 18:3
Luke 18:3 The Church's Widowhood. That the Church is, nay must be, in a state of widowhood appears from such things as these: I. The Father's purpose concerning her. That purpose has great things in store for her, in the ages to come; but at present her lot is to be weakness, poverty, hardship, and the endurance of wrong. Through much tribulation she must enter the kingdom. II. Her conformity to her Lord. He is her pattern, not merely as to character, but as to the whole course of life. In Him... read more
Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Luke 18:1-8
CRITICAL NOTESLuke 18:1 And He spake a parable.—This parable is closely connected with the preceding discourse about the second coming of Christ. The widow is the Church; the judge is God, who long forbears to avenge her wrongs. The parable is of a somewhat paradoxical nature, like that of the Unjust Steward, and like that of the Selfish Neighbour (chap. Luke 11:5). “The argument is: If such be the power of earnest entreaty that it can win right even from a man sunk in selfishness and fearing... read more