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Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Either what woman having ten pieces of silver, if she lose one piece, doth not light a candle, and sweep the house, and seek diligently till she find it? Her thoughts were all concerning that one lost piece. It had not more intrinsic value than the rest, but being lost it called off her attention from the other nine. She valued it, and for the...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Either what woman having ten pieces of silver, if she lose one piece, doth not light a candle, and sweep the house, and search diligently till she find it And when she hath found it, she calleth her friends and her neighbors together, Saying, Rejoice with me; for I have found the piece which I had lost. Likewise, I say unto you, there is joy in...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Either what woman having ten pieces of silver, if she lose one piece, doth not light a candle and sweep the house, and seek diligently till she find it? And when she hath found it, she calleth her friends and her neighbors together, saying, Rejoice with me; for I have found the piece which I had lost. Likewise, I say unto you, there is joy in the...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
And when she hath found it, she calleth her friends,.... [See comments on Lu 15:6] a parable somewhat like to this, the Jews (x) have on those words in Proverbs 2:4 "If thou seekest her as silver", c. "it is like to a man that has lost a "shekel", (a piece of money,) or beryl rings, within his house he lights up many lamps and many candles, until...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And when she hath found it, she calleth her friends and her neighbors together, saying, Rejoice with me; for I have found the piece which I had lost. She might never have called them together to rejoice that she had ten pieces of silver, she might even have hidden them away; and the joy she had in them might have been only her own, a solitary joy;...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Likewise I say unto you,.... As before, in Lu 15:7 there is joy in the presence of the angels of God; who are the friends and neighbours of Christ: [See comments on Lu 15:6], over one sinner that repenteth; which they have knowledge of, either by immediate revelation from God, or by observation in the church where they attend: the reason of this...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Likewise, I say unto you, there is joy in the presence of the angels of God over one sinner that repenteth. Not joy among the angels, as some read it, though no doubt that is a truth; but “joy in the presence of the angels of God;” and what can that mean but that God himself rejoices, and rejoices so that angels perceive it; and no doubt they then...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
And he said,.... The Syriac and Persic versions read "and Jesus said again"; he added another parable to the two former, at the same time, of the same import, with the same view, and on the same occasion; setting forth the different characters of the Scribes and Pharisees, and of the publicans and sinners; and what little reason the one had to...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And he said, A certain man had two sons: and the younger of them said to his father, Father, give me the portion of goods that falleth to me. And he divided unto them his living. And not many days after the younger son gathered all together, and took his journey into a far country, and there wasted his substance with riotous living. His heart was...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And he said, A certain man had two sons: and the younger of them said to his father, Father, give me the portion of goods that faileth to me. And he divided unto them his living. And not many days after the younger son gathered all together, and took his journey into a far country, and there wasted his substance with riotous living. It is clear...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And he said, A certain man had two sons and the younger of them said to his father, Father, give me the portion of goods that falleth to me. And he divided unto them his living. And not many days after — For sin is very rapid in its development, and sinners are often in great haste to get away from God. The young man’s heart was wrong already, or...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And he said, A certain man had two sons: And the younger of them said to his father, Father, give me the portion of goods that falleth to me. And he divided unto them his living. And not many days after the younger son gathered all together, and took his journey into a far country, and there wasted his substance with riotous living. It was an act...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
And the younger of them said to his father,.... God's chosen ones among the publicans and sinners, are fitly signified by the younger son, since man, as a sinner, is younger than man as righteous; and since there are instances of God's choice of the younger, before the elder, as Jacob before Esau, c. and the characters and conduct of young men...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
And not many days after the younger son gathered all together,.... That his father had divided to him, all his goods and substance: as soon as a man has any internal substance, any considerable degree of natural knowledge, he immediately sets out from God, and employs it against him, in reasoning against him, against his being, his works, his...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
The younger son gathered all together, and took his journey into a far country, and there wasted his substance with riotous living. And when he had spent all, there arose a mighty famine in that land; and he began to be in want. And he went and joined himself to a citizen of that country; and he sent him into his fields to feed swine. Probably,...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
And when he had spent all,.... Sin strips a man of all that is good and valuable; of the image of God, of the knowledge of divine things, of natural holiness, of moral righteousness, and of strength to perform moral good; hence man is in a wretched and miserable condition, he is poor, and blind, and naked: and if man has spent all, and sin has...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And when he had spent all, there arose a mighty famine in that land; There generally does arise” a mighty famine” in such cases. Famines and other miseries are God’s messengers, which he sends after his wandering children. Luk_15:14. And he began to be in want. This was a new sensation to him; he had never known it when he was at home. He did not...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And when he had spent all, there arose a mighty famine in that land; and he began to be in want. And he went and joined himself to a citizen of that country; and he sent him into his fields to feed swine. A very degrading employment for him as a Jew;¾perhaps, however, the best that the citizen of that country could do for him, for there was a...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And when he had spent all, there arose a mighty famine in that land; and he began to be in want. And the sinner’s greatest all will be spent one day; the pleasures of sin are but for a season; the strongest sinew in an arm of flesh will one day crack; the flowers that grow in man’s garden will one day fade; man may think he has an eternity of...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
And he went and joined himself to a citizen of that country,.... Not to any one of the saints, for they are not citizens of the far country, but of the church of God below, and of heaven above; besides, carnal men do not like the company of such citizens: nor is the devil intended, for though he dwells in this country, he is more than a citizen,...