Luke 18:20

18:20 you know the commandments: Jesus cites the fifth through ninth of the Ten Commandments (Exod 20:12-16; Deut 5:16-20), which pertain to relationships between human beings.

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Luk 18:20. Τίμα, honour) even though thou art a ruler: Luk 18:18.

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Luk 18:20 . μὴ μοιχεύσῃς : the Seventh Com., first in Lk., the Sixth in Mt. and Mk. (W. H [145] ). Mk.’s μὴ ἀποστερήσῃς and Mt.’s ἀγαπήσεις τ . πλησίον σου , etc., are not found in Lk.

[145] Westcott and Hort.

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Thou knowest, &c.--Matthew (Mat 19:17) is more complete here: "but if thou wilt enter into life, keep the commandments. He saith unto him, Which--as if he had said, Point me out one of them which I have not kept?--"Jesus said, Thou shalt," &c. (Mat 19:17-18). Our Lord purposely confines Himself to the second table, which He would consider easy to keep, enumerating them all--for in Mark (Mar 10:19), "Defraud not" stands for the tenth (else the eighth is twice repeated). In Matthew (Mat 19:19) the sum of this second table of the law is added, "Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself," as if to see if he would venture to say he had kept that.

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(20) Thou knowest the commandments.—St. Luke here agrees with St. Matthew in omitting the “defraud not,” which we find in St. Mark.

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20. Thou knowest the commandments] St Matthew says that our Lord first answered, ‘Keep the commandments,’ and when the young man asked, ‘What kind of commandments?’ expecting probably some recondite points of casuistry—minute rules [Halachoth) out of the oral Law—our Lord to his surprise mentions the broadest and most obvious commandments of the Decalogue.

Do not kill, &c.] Our Lord seems purposely to have mentioned only the plainest commandments of the Second Table, to shew the young man that he had fallen short even of these in their true interpretation; much more of that love to God which is the epitome of the first Table. Thus does Christ ‘send the proud to the Law, and invite the humble to the Gospel.’

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Thou knowest the commandments,.... The ten commandments given to Moses, and delivered to people; and which they were careful to teach their children; though five are only here mentioned, and not in the order in which they stand: suggesting hereby that these must be kept, or the law must he fulfilled, and satisfaction made for the violation of it, or there can be no inheriting eternal life. The five commandments mentioned are, the seventh, sixth, eighth, ninth, and fifth:

do not commit adultery; do not kill; do not steal; do not bear false witness; honour father and thy mother; See Gill on Mat 19:17 and See Gill on Mar 10:19.

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20 Thou knowest the commandments, Do not commit adultery, Do not kill, Do not steal, Do not bear false witness, Honour thy father and thy mother.

Ver. 20. See Mat 19:17-19.

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Thou knowest the commandments. The report in St. Matthew is somewhat fuller. There the ruler, when directed to the commandments, replies by asking "which?" expecting most likely to be referred to some of the elaborate traditional laws of the rabbinic schools, which were difficult to keep even by men in the position of a wealthy Pharisee; but to his surprise Jesus mentions the most general and best-known of the ancient ten.

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Exod. xx, 12, &c.

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Note here, that the duties directed to by our Saviour, are the duties of the second table, nothing being a better evidence of our unfeigned love to God, than a sincere performance of our duty to our neighbor; love to man is a fruit and testimony of our love to God.

Learn thence, that such as are defective in the duties of the second table, charity and justice towards men, do make but a counterfeit show of religion, though they pretend to the highest degree of holiness and love towards God.

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20. St Matthew says that our Lord first answered, “Keep the commandments,” and when the young man asked, ‘What kind of commandments?’ expecting probably some recondite points of casuistry—minute rules (Halachôth) out of the oral Law—our Lord to his surprise mentions the broadest and most obvious commandments of the Decalogue.

μὴ μοιχεύσῃς. Our Lord seems purposely to have mentioned only the plainest commandments of the Second Table, to shew the young man that he had fallen short even of these in their true interpretation; much more of that love to God which is the epitome of the first Table. Thus does Christ ‘send the proud to the Law, and invite the humble to the Gospel.’

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20. τὰς ἐντολὰς οἶδας. Jesus securos ad Legem remittit; contrifos Evangelice consolatur (Beng.). This is, however, not the main point. Nothing extraordinary or not generally known is required for salvation: the observance of well-known commands will suffice.

Here Lk. exactly agrees with Mk., except that he places the seventh before the sixth commandment, and omits, as Mt. does, μὴ ἀποστερήσῃς, which perhaps represents the tenth. In Rom 13:9, Jas 2:11, and in Cod. B of Deu 5:17 adultery is mentioned before murder. Philo says that in the second πεντάς of the decalogue adultery is placed first as μέγιστον ἀδικημάτων (De decem orac. xxiv., xxxii.,). In all three of the Gospels the fifth commandment is placed last and none of the first four is quoted. In Mt. they are in the same form as in Exo_20. and Deut, 5, Οὐ φονεύσεις κ.τ.λ. So also Rom 13:9. In Mk. and Jas 2:11, Μὴ φονεύσῃς.

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Why callest thou me good? See on Mt 19:17.

Do not commit adultery, etc. Compare the different arrangement of the commandments by the three synoptists.

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