Lucas 10
J.C. Ryle · Citado em PreceptAustin
Lucas 10
Ryle - The first point in our Lord’s charge to the seventy disciples is the importance of prayer and intercession. This is the leading thought with which our Lord opens His address. Before He tells His ambassadors what to do, He first bids them to pray. “Pray ye the Lord of the harvest that He would send forth laborers into his harvest.” Prayer is one of the best and most powerful means of helping forward the cause of Christ in the world. It is a means within the reach of all who have the Spirit of adoption. Not all believers have money to give to missions. Very few have great intellectual gifts, or extensive influence among men. But all believers can pray for the success of the Gospel,—and they ought to pray for it daily. Many and marvellous are the answers to prayer which are recorded for our learning in the Bible. “The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much.” (James 5:16.) Prayer is one of the principal weapons which the minister of the Gospel ought to use. To be a true successor of the apostles, he must give himself to prayer as well as to the ministry of the word. (Acts 6:4.) He must not only use the sword of the Spirit, but pray always, with all prayer and supplication. (Eph. 6:17, 18.) This is the way to win a blessing on his own ministry. This, above all, is the way to procure helpers to carry on Christ’s work. Colleges may educate men. Bishops may ordain them. Patrons may give them livings. But God alone can raise up and send forth “laborers” who will do work among souls. For a constant supply of such laborers let us daily pray. Charles
Lucas 10
Ryle puts it this way, "We need not run into any excess of riot. We need not openly oppose true religion. We have only to remain cold, careless, indifferent, unmoved, and unaffected, and our end will be in hell. This was the ruin of Chorazin and Bethsaida. And this, it may be feared, will be the ruin of thousands, as long as the world stands. No sin makes less noise, but none so surely damns the soul, as unbelief." Rod Mattoon makes an interesting point - We will note here that one of the towns upon which woe is pronounced is Chorazin. It is implied that Jesus did many mighty works there. In the gospel history as we have it, Chorazin is never even mentioned, and we do not know one thing that Jesus did or one word that He spoke there. Nothing could show so vividly how much we do not know about the life of Jesus. The gospels are not biographies. They are only sketches of the life of Jesus. Robertson on would have repented. Conclusion (apodosis) of second-class condition, determined as unfulfilled. Long ago ([palai]). Implies a considerable ministry in these cities of which we are not told. Chorazin not mentioned save here and Matt. 11:21. The [sakkos] (sackcloth) was dark coarse cloth made of goat’s hair and worn by penitents, mourners, suppliants. It is a Hebrew word, [śaq; שַׂק]. The rough cloth was used for sacks or bags. To cover oneself with ashes was a mode of punishment as well as of voluntary humiliation. Sackcloth and ashes (see note below) is a combination that occurs 6x in the Bible (Est. 4:1; Est. 4:3; Isa. 58:5; Dan. 9:3; Matt. 11:21; Lk. 10:13) and speaks of profound mourning.