Luke 17:7 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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⁷But which of you, having a servant plowing or feeding cattle, will say unto him by and by, when he is come from the field, Go and sit down to meat?

Luke 17:7 —

Old words in this verse

meat: — food of any kind.

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Bondage Bondman Capital and Labor Employer Formalism God Hire Hireling

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 1-10)

We are here taught, I. That the giving of offences is a great sin, and that which we should every one of us avoid and carefully watch against, Luke 17:1, 2. We can expect no other than that offences will come, considering the perverseness and frowardness that are in the nature of man, and the wise purpose and counsel of God, who will carry on his work even by those offences, and bring good out of…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 7)

7-10. say unto him by and by--The “by and by” (or rather “directly”) should be joined not to the saying but the going: “Go directly.” The connection here is: “But when your faith has been so increased as both to avoid and forgive offenses, and do things impossible to all but faith, be not puffed up as though you had laid the Lord under any obligations to you.”