Luke 12:44

12:44 in charge of all he owns: Although servants in the Roman world were slaves (the master’s property), they could rise to very high social status, owning property, managing the entire household, and acting with the master’s authority.

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Luk 12:44 . ἀληθῶς here, as usual, for ἀμὴν (Luk 12:37 an exception).

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make him ruler over all he hath--will advance him to the highest post, referring to the world to come. (See Mat 25:21, Mat 25:23).

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44. ruler over all that he hath] See Luk_22:29-30.

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But and if that servant say in his heart,.... Not the same servant before spoken of as a wise and faithful steward, that gives to all in the family the portion of meat in due season, and shall be found doing, and be made ruler over his master's goods but another, who also, as he, is made by his Lord ruler over his household, and is in a like post, and in the same office, but is an "evil servant", as Matthew calls him, to distinguish him from the other; and so the Arabic and Ethiopic versions read here:

my Lord delayeth his coming; though a wicked servant, he calls Christ his Lord; but it is not saying Lord, Lord, that will be of any avail, but doing the will of God, by believing in Christ, and obeying his commands: he had a notion of the coming of Christ, though he did not desire it; and because he tarried longer than was expected, supposed him to be slack concerning his promise, and began to think, and hope, and at length to believe, that he would not come at all, and therefore gave himself up to a wicked and licentious way of living:

and shall begin to beat the menservants and maidens; to persecute the ministers of the Gospel, and the true disciples of Christ, the undefiled virgins, that follow the Lamb whithersoever he goes:

and to eat, and drink, and to be drunken: to live a voluptuous and sensual life, to give himself up to intemperance and debauchery: and, generally speaking, as professors of religion, when they turn apostates, are the most violent persecutors of the saints; so such persecutors of Christ's, faithful followers are commonly drunkards and debauchees; See Gill on Mat 24:48, See Gill on Mat 24:49.

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44 Of a truth I say unto you, that he will make him ruler over all that he hath.

Ver. 44. See Mat 24:46-51.

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44. ἐπὶ πᾶσιν τοῖς ὑπάρχουσιν αὐτοῦ. See Luk 22:29-30.

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44. ἀληθῶς λέγω ὑμῖν. Here, as in 9:27 and 21:3 Lk. has ἀληθῶς, others have ἀμή́. See on 10:12. Comp. νομικοί (11:52) where Mt. has γραμματεῖς (23:14), and his never using Ῥαββεί.

ἐπὶ πᾶσιν τοῖς ὑπάρχουσιν αὐτοῦ. See on 8:3. This passage and Mat 24:47 seem to be the only instances in N.T. of this use of ἐπί. Elsewhere we have the gen. (ver. 42) or acc. (ver. 14), the former being more common (Mat 24:45, Mat 24:25:21, Mat 24:23).

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