Teks -- Luke 20:47 (NET)

20:47 They devour widows’ property, and as a show make long prayers. They will receive a more severe punishment.”

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Vincent: Luk 20:47 - Widows' houses

Widows' houses

See on Mar 12:40.

Wesley: Luk 20:47

Mat 23:14.

JFB: Luk 20:46-47 - Beware, &c.

(See on Mat 23:5; and Luk 14:7).

JFB: Luk 20:47 - devour, &c.

Taking advantage of their helpless condition and confiding character, to obtain possession of their property, while by their "long prayers" they made them believe they were raised far above "filthy lucre." So much "the greater damnation" awaits them. What a lifelike description of the Romish clergy, the true successors of "the scribes!"

TSK: Luk 20:47 - devour // for // the same

devour : Isa 10:2; Jer 7:6-10; Eze 22:7; Amo 2:7, Amo 8:4-6; Mic 2:2, Mic 2:8, Mic 3:2; Mat 23:14; Mar 12:40; 2Ti 3:6

for : Luk 12:1; Eze 33:31; Mat 23:26-28; 1Th 2:5; 2Ti 3:2-5; Tit 1:16

the same : Luk 10:12-14, Luk 12:47, Luk 12:48; Mat 11:22-24; Jam 3:1

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Poole: Luk 20:45-47

Ver. 45-47. We have met with all this before, See Poole on "Luk 11:43" . See Poole on "Mat 23:6" . See Poole on "Mat 23:7" . See Poole on "Mar 12:38" , and following verses to Mar 12:40 .

Haydock: Luk 20:47

These shall receive a greater condemnation, because they not only commit ordinary evil actions, but also make their prayers, and virtue itself, a cloak to their hypocrisy and vanity, and the cause of their greater depravity, famishing the widows whom themselves ought to compassionate and relieve. (Theophylactus) ---

Or, the greater honours and rewards they received for their wickedness, the greater punishment must they endure to expiate it. (Ven. Bede) ---

Jesus Christ seems in this place to allude to the avaricious practice of the Jews, draining the purses of widows by their stipulated long prayers for their departed husbands, (see Matthew xxiii. 14.; Mark xii. 40.) and thus abusing so holy a thing as prayer, merely to gratify their avarice.

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Gill: Luk 20:47 - Which devour widows' houses // and for a show make long prayers // the same shall receive greater damnation

Which devour widows' houses,.... As the characters of them, in the preceding verse, expose their pride, this shows their avarice; they were very voracious and cruel; they did not spare widows, but devoured their substance:

and for a show make long prayers; to cover their wickedness, pretending great devotion and religion;

the same shall receive greater damnation: than openly profane sinners; doing such wickedness under a cloak of religion, will aggravate their condemnation; See Gill on Mat 23:14.