Teks -- Luke 13:21 (NET)

13:21 It is like yeast that a woman took and mixed with three measures of flour until all the dough had risen.”

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Vincent: Luk 13:21 - Leaven

Leaven

See on Mat 13:33.

Wesley: Luk 13:21 - Covered up

So that, for a time, nothing of it appeared.

JFB: Luk 13:18-21 - mustard seed . . . leaven

(See on Mar 4:30-32). The parable of "the Leaven" sets forth, perhaps, rather the inward growth of the kingdom, while "the Mustard Seed" seems to point chiefly to the outward. It being a woman's work to knead, it seems a refinement to say that "the woman" here represents the Church, as the instrument of depositing the leaven. Nor does it yield much satisfaction to understand the "three measures of meal" of that threefold division of our nature into "spirit, soul, and body," (alluded to in 1Th 5:23) or of the threefold partition of the world among the three sons of Noah (Gen 10:32), as some do. It yields more real satisfaction to see in this brief parable just the all-penetrating and assimilating quality of the Gospel, by virtue of which it will yet mould all institutions and tribes of men, and exhibit over the whole earth one "Kingdom of our Lord and of His Christ." (See on Rev 11:15).

Clarke: Luk 13:21 - Like leaven

Like leaven - See this explained, Mat 13:33 (note).

TSK: Luk 13:21 - like // till

like : Mat 13:33 *marg.

till : Job 17:9; Psa 92:13, Psa 92:14; Pro 4:18; Hos 6:3; Joh 4:14, Joh 15:2; 1Co 5:6; Phi 1:6, Phi 1:9-11; 1Th 5:23, 1Th 5:24; Jam 1:21

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Poole: Luk 13:18-21

Ver. 18-21. See Poole on "Mat 13:31" , and following verses to Mat 13:33 . They are two parables by which Christ foretells the great success of the gospel, notwithstanding the present small appearance of the efficacy of it.

Haydock: Luk 13:21

The flour represents us Christians, who receive the Lord Jesus into the inner parts of our soul, till we are all inflamed with the fire of his heavenly wisdom. (St. Ambrose)

Gill: Luk 13:21 - It is like leaven // which a woman took // and hid in three measures of meal // till the whole was leavened

It is like leaven,.... Which is small in quantity, but is of a swelling, spreading quality; and fitly expresses the small beginnings of the Gospel ministry, and its increase, also the state and case of Gospel churches, and the nature of the grace of God; unless false doctrine should rather be meant, which privately, secretly, and by little and little, got into the churches of Christ, the kingdom of God, and spread itself all over them, as in the times of the papacy:

which a woman took; Christ, and his ministers, Wisdom, and her maidens, understanding it of the Gospel; but if the leaven of error is intended, that woman, Jezebel, is meant, who calls herself a prophetess, and teaches, and seduces the servants of God, Rev 2:20

and hid in three measures of meal: among a few of God's people at first, both among Jews and Gentiles,

till the whole was leavened; until all the elect of God are gathered in, and evangelized by it; even the whole fulness of the Gentiles, and all the people of the Jews, which shall be saved in the latter day; but if the parable is to be understood of the false doctrine and discipline of the Antichristian and apostate church of Rome, it may denote the small beginnings of the mystery of iniquity, which began to work in the apostle's time by the errors and heresies then propagated, and the manner in which the man of sin was privately introduced; whose coming is after the working of Satan, with signs and lying wonders, and with all deceivableness of unrighteousness, first among a few, and then more, until at length the whole world wondered after the beast, 2Th 2:7.