Luke 9:58

9:58 no place even to lay his head: Any disciple of Jesus must be ready to go anywhere and to give up home and security.

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Luk 9:58. Οὐκ ἔχει, hath not) In Luk 9:53; Luk 9:56 an example occurs.

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Luk 9:58 . This remarkable saying is given in identical terms by Mt. and Lk. Vide on Mt.

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58. Jesus said unto him] “In the man’s flaring enthusiasm He saw the smoke of egotistical self-deceit” (Lange), and therefore He coldly checked a proffered devotion which would not have stood the test.

nests] Rather, habitations, shelters. Birds do not live in nests. In this verse more than in any other we see the poverty and homelessness of the latter part of the Lord’s ministry (2Co_8:9). Perhaps St Luke placed the incident here as appropriate to the rejection of our Lord’s wish to rest for the night at En Gannim. Was this Scribe prepared to follow Jesus for His own sake alone?

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And Jesus said unto him,.... The copulative "and", is left out in the Vulgate Latin, Syriac, Arabic, and Persic versions:

no man having put his hand to the plough; or "ploughshare", as reads the Syriac version; or "plough handle", as the Persic; referring, as Beza thinks, to the business of Elisha, in Kg1 19:19

And looking back; behind him; for the ploughman ought to look before him, on his plough, and the ground he is ploughing, or he is not fit to be a ploughman; nor will he make proper furrows, or do his work well; and so he that enters upon the ministerial work, and looks back, and engages himself in the affairs of the world, sets his heart on them, and spends his time in them,

is not fit for the kingdom of God: that is, to preach the kingdom of God, as in Luk 9:60. He cannot serve God and mammon, his own interest, and the interest of Christ; he cannot rightly perform the work of the ministry, whilst his thoughts and time are taken up in the affairs of the world.

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58 And Jesus said unto him, Foxes have holes, and birds of the air have nests; but the Son of man hath not where to lay his head.

Ver. 58. And Jesus said unto them] Christ had felt his pulse and found his temper, that he looked after outward things only; and therefore he lets him know what to trust unto.

But the Son of man] Ezekiel with the Septuagint is, υιος ανθρωπου, the son of man, but Christ is ο υιος του ανθρωπου, , that is, the son of that man, of that first man Adam. He was the next and only other common person.

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But Jesus said to him - First understand the terms: consider on what conditions thou art to follow me.

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58. εἶπεν αὐτῷ ὁ Ἰησοῦς. “In the man’s flaring enthusiasm He saw the smoke of egotistical self-deceit” (Lange), and therefore He coldly checked a proffered devotion which would not have stood the test.

φωλεούς. A late and not very common word.

κατασκηνώσεις. ‘Habitations, shelters.’ Birds do not live in nests. In this verse more than in any other we see the poverty and homelessness of the latter part of the Lord’s ministry (2Co 8:9). Perhaps St Luke placed the incident here as appropriate to the rejection of our Lord’s wish to rest for the night at En Gannim. Was this Scribe prepared to follow Jesus for His own sake alone?

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58.] See notes on Matt.

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58. Αἱ ἀλώπεκες φωλεοὺς ἔχουσιν. Jesus knows the measure of the scribe’s enthusiasm. He also knows whither He Himself is going, viz. to suffering and to death. He warns him of privations which must be endured at once. The scribe was accustomed to a comfortable home; and that must be sacrificed: comp. 18:22; Mat 20:22. For other cases in which Jesus checked emotional impulsiveness see 11:27 and 22:33. Foxes and birds are mentioned, not as representatives of the whole animal world, but as creatures which lead a vagabond life. Comp. Plut. Tib. Grac. ix.

Jdg 15:4 the form ἀλώπηκας is well attested: φωλεός occurs nowhere else in bibl. Grk, excepting Mat 8:20, where see Wetst. for illustrations of the use of the word for lairs of animals. Syr-Sin. inserts “Verily” here.

κατασκηνώσεις. Lit. “encampings,” and so “encampments, abodes.” Therefore “roosts” would be better than “nests.” Only for a short time in each year does a bird have a nest. Here Vul, has nidos, in Mt. tabernacula with nidos in many MSS. Here d has habitacula. In both places many texts add to nidos the gloss ubi requiescant. In Eze 37:27 and Wisd. 9:8 κατασκήνωσις (tabernaculum) is used of Jehovah encamping among His people: comp. Tob. 1:4 and Ps. Son 7:5.

οὑ ἔχει ποῦ τὴν κεφαλὴν κλίνῃ. Not because of His poverty, but because of the wandering life which His work involved, a life which was now more unsettled than ever. Nazareth had cast Him out; of His own choice He had left Caperaum; Samaritans had refused to receive Him: in the intervals of necessary rest He had no home.1 For the constr. see 12:17.

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Holes. See on Mt 8:20.

Birds [πετεινα] . Strictly, flying fowl. The common word for bird in the New Testament. Opniv occurs Mt 23:37; Luk 13:34; but both times in the sense of hen. See on Mt 23:37. Orneon is found in Rev 18:2; Rev 19:17, 21; and pthnon, another form for the word in this passage, occurs 1Co 14:30.

Nests. See on Mt 8:20.

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