Lucas 8
John Wesley · Notas Explicativas sobre o NT
Lucas 8:2
Mary Magdalene - Or Mary of Magdala, a town in Galilee: probably the person mentioned in the last chapter.
Lucas 8:4
Matt. xiii, 1; Mark iv, 1.
Lucas 8:15
Who - keep it - Not like the highway side: And bring forth fruit - Not like the thorny ground: With perseverance - Not like the stony.
Lucas 8:16
No man having lighted a candle - As if he had said, And let your good fruit appear openly. Matt. v, 15; Mark iv, 21; Chap. xi, 33.
Lucas 8:17
For nothing is hid - Strive not to conceal it at all; for you can conceal nothing long. Matt. x, 26; Mark iv, 22; Chap. xii, 2.
Lucas 8:18
The word commonly translated seemeth, wherever it occurs, does not weaken, but greatly strengthens the sense. Matt. xiii, 12; Mark iv, 25; Luke xix, 26.
Lucas 8:19
Matt. xii, 46; Mark iii, 31.
Lucas 8:22
Matt. viii, 23; Mark iv, 35.
Lucas 8:26
Matt. viii, 28; Mark v, 1.
Lucas 8:29
For many times it had caught him - Therefore our compassionate Lord made the more haste to cast him out.
Lucas 8:31
The abyss - That is, the bottomless pit.
Lucas 8:32
To enter into the swine - Not that they were any easier in the swine than out of them. Had it been so, they would not so soon have dislodged themselves, by destroying the herd.
Lucas 8:37
Matt. ix, 1; Mark v, 18.
Lucas 8:40
Mark v, 21.
Lucas 8:52
She is not dead but sleepeth - Her soul is not separated finally from the body; and this short separation is rather to be called sleep than death.