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Izhibhalo Ezingcwele
ULuka 12:18
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from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
Luke 12:21, Luke 18:4, Luke 18:6, Psalms 17:14, James 3:15, James 4:15
Reciprocal: Genesis 13:6 - General Deuteronomy 28:8 - storehouses Ecclesiastes 10:2 - but Isaiah 23:18 - it shall Isaiah 47:8 - I shall not
Gill's Notes on the Bible
And he said, this will I do,.... This was the resolution he came to, and which he took up, without consulting God, or asking leave of him:
I will pull down my barns, and build greater; which was not a very wise one; for he might have let his present barns have stood, and have added new ones to them:
and there will I bestow all my fruits and my goods; he ascribes the increase of his substance to himself, and reckons them his own acquisitions, and entirely owing to his diligence and industry; and therefore calls them my fruits, and my goods; and accounts them his good things, his only good things; as worldly men place all good and happiness in outward enjoyments, having no notion of spiritual and eternal good things he determines to lay up all in his barns, for his own use and service, and nothing for God and his interest, nor any thing for the poor and their relief.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
I will pull down my barns - The word “barns” here, properly means, “granaries,” or places exclusively designed to put wheat, barley, etc. They were commonly made, by the ancients, “underground,” where grain could be kept a long time more safe from thieves and from vermin. If it be asked why he did not let the old ones remain and build new ones, it may be answered that it would be easier to “enlarge” those already excavated in the earth than to dig new ones.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Luke 12:18. I will pull down, &c.] The rich are full of designs concerning this life, but in general take no thought about eternity till the time that their goods and their lives are both taken away.
