Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Luke 8

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Verse 2
Mary Magdalene - Or Mary of Magdala, a town in Galilee: probably the person mentioned in the last chapter.

Verse 4
Matthew 13:1 ; Mark 4:1 .

Verse 15
Who - keep it - Not like the highway side: And bring forth fruit - Not like the thorny ground: With perseverance - Not like the stony.

Verse 16
No man having lighted a candle - As if ho had said, And let your good fruit appear openly. Matthew 5:15 ; Mark 4:21 ; Luke 11:33 .

Verse 17
For nothing is hid - Strive not to conceal it at all; for you can conceal nothing long. Matthew 10:26 ; Mark 4:22 ; Luke 12:2 .

Verse 18
The word commonly translated seemeth, wherever it occurs, does not weaken, but greatly strengthens the sense. Matthew 13:12 ; Mark 4:25 ; Luke 19:26 .

Verse 19
Matthew 12:46 ; Mark 3:31 .

Verse 22
Matthew 8:23 ; Mark 4:35 .

Verse 26
Matthew 8:28 ; Mark 5:1 .

Verse 29
For many times it had caught him - Therefore our compassionate Lord made the more haste to cast him out.

Verse 31
The abyss - That is, the bottomless pit.

Verse 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.

Verse 37
Matthew 9:1 ; Mark 5:18 .

Verse 40
Mark 5:21 .

Verse 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.

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Wesley, John. "Commentary on Luke 8:1". "John Wesley's Explanatory Notes

on the Whole Bible". "http://www.studylight.org/com/wen/view.cgi?book=lu&chapter=8&verse=1". 1765.

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