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Luc 13:16
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Et ne fallait-il pas délier de ce lien au jour du Sabbat celle-ci qui est fille d'Abraham, laquelle satan avait liée il y a déjŕ dix-huit ans?
Et ne fallait-il point, en un jour de sabbat, détacher de cette chaîne cette fille d'Abraham, que Satan tenait liée depuis dix-huit ans?
Et celle-ci qui est fille d'Abraham, laquelle Satan avait liée, voici, il y a dix-huit ans, ne fallait-il pas la délier de ce lien le jour du sabbat?
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being: Luke 3:8, Luke 16:24, Luke 19:9, Acts 13:26, Romans 4:12-16
whom: Luke 13:11, John 8:44, 2 Timothy 2:26
be loosed: Luke 13:12, Mark 2:27
Reciprocal: Psalms 41:8 - An evil disease Mark 2:28 - General Mark 9:21 - How Luke 8:43 - twelve John 5:5 - thirty Acts 9:33 - which 2 Corinthians 12:7 - the messenger Revelation 12:9 - and Satan
Gill's Notes on the Bible
And ought not this woman, being a daughter of Abraham,.... Not only a woman, or rational creature, and much preferable, as such, to an irrational one; but a descendant of Abraham, of whom the Jews gloried, and in descent from him prided themselves, and trusted; and chose to call their women by this name w, which gave them a character above others: and who, besides all this, was doubtless a good woman, a spiritual worshipper of the God of Israel; who, in a spiritual sense, was a daughter of Abraham, that walked in the steps of his faith, and was now a believer in Christ, and appeared to be a chosen vessel of salvation:
whom Satan hath bound, lo these eighteen years; with a bodily distemper that none could loose her from in so long a time. The Persic version, very wrongly, reads "twelve years"; though in
Luke 13:11 it observes the right number.
Should not such an one be loosed from this bond on the sabbath day? the force of Christ's reasoning is this, that if it was lawful, on a sabbath day, to lead out a beast to watering, to quench its thirst, that so it may not suffer so much as one day for want of water, how much more reasonable must it be, that a rational creature, one of Abraham's posterity, and a religious person, who had been for eighteen years under a sore affliction, through the power of Satan over her, by divine permission, should be freed from so long and sore an affliction on the sabbath day? if mercy is to be shown to beasts, much more to men and women.
w T. Bab. Cetubot, fol. 72. 2. Tzeror Hammor, fol. 109. 1.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
A daughter of Abraham - A descendant of Abraham. See the notes at Matthew 1:1. She was therefore a Jewess; and the ruler of the synagogue, professing a special regard for the Jewish people, considering them as especially favored of God, should have rejoiced that she was loosed from this infirmity.
Whom Satan hath bound - Satan is the name given to the prince or leader of evil spirits, called also the devil, Beelzebub, and the old serpent, Matthew 12:24; Revelation 12:9; Revelation 20:2. By his “binding” her is meant that he had inflicted this disease upon her. It was not properly a “possession” of the devil, for that commonly produced derangement; but God had suffered him to afflict her in this manner, similar to the way in which he was permitted to try Job. See the notes at Job 1:12; Job 2:6-7. It is no more “improbable” that God would suffer “Satan” to inflict pain, than that he would suffer a wicked “man” to do it; yet nothing is more common than for one “man” to be the occasion of bringing on a disease in another which may terminate only with the life. He that seduces a virtuous man and leads him to intemperance, or he that wounds him or strikes him, may disable him as much as Satan did this woman. If God permits it in one case, he may, for the same reason, in another.
