Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Luke 15:9

And when she hath found [it,] she calleth [her] friends and [her] neighbors together, saying, Rejoice with me; for I have found the piece which I had lost.

9. I have found the piece which I had lost ] She does not say ‘my piece.’ If the woman be intended to represent the Church, the loss of the ‘piece’ entrusted to her may be in part, at least, her own fault.

Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

And when she hath found it, she calleth her friends,….

[See comments on Lu 15:6] a parable somewhat like to this, the Jews x have on those words in Pr 2:4 “If thou seekest her as silver”, c.

“it is like to a man that has lost a “shekel”, (a piece of money,) or beryl rings, within his house he lights up many lamps and many candles, until he lights on them; and lo, these things much more: for if a man for the things of the temporary life of this world, lights many lamps and candles, until he lights upon them and finds them; the words of the law, since they are the life of this world, and the life of the world to come, shouldest thou not search after them as for hidden treasure?”

x Shirhashirim Rabba, fol. 1. 4.

Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible

Her friends and neighbours ( ). Note single article and female friends (feminine article and ). H here as in verse 4, only added after (until which time) as often.

Which I lost ( ). First aorist active indicative of . She lost the coin (note article). The shepherd did not lose the one sheep.

Fuente: Robertson’s Word Pictures in the New Testament

Her friends. Female friends, for the noun is used in the feminine form. I lost. Through her own carelessness. Of the sheep, Jesus says “was lost.” ” A sheep strays of itself, but a piece of money could only be lost by a certain negligence on the part of such as should have kept it ” (Trench). In the one case, the attention is fastened on the condition of the thing lost; in the other, upon the sorrow of the one who has lost.

Fuente: Vincent’s Word Studies in the New Testament

1) “And when she hath found it,” (kai heurousa) “And having found it,” and recovered it; note, she does not give up. Patience, forbearance, and perseverance is needed in finding precious souls that are lost, as well as precious metals, Joh 4:34-36; Gal 6:9; Psa 126:5-6; 1Co 3:8; Rev 22:12.

2) “She calleth her friends and her neighbors together,” (sugkalei tas philas kai geitonas) “She cal Is together the friends and neighbors,” those residing nearby, to share her joy with them also, as the four lepers did when they found food for themselves and to spare, 2Ki 7:9.

3) “Saying, Rejoice with me;” (legousa sugcharete moi) “Saying, again and again, rejoice along with me in company with me,” share my joy with me, Rom 15:12.

4) “For I have found the piece which I had lost.” (hot I heuron ten drachmen hen appaloosa) “Because I found the silver-piece (the drachma) which I lost.” Yes, she admitted that she lost it, for it was she who had been custodian of it. 0 that fathers, mothers, husbands, and wives with lost companions, children, or loved ones would say, “I lost him or her,” let them wander from God, through my carelessness; God forgive, 1Jn 1:8-9.

Let it be recalled that just as the coin bare the image of the king or the ruler, so do men bear the image of God, though it be marred and scarred by sin. It is worth redeeming, cost the death of Jesus, and calls for witnessing of the saints, Act 1:8; Rom 1:16; 1Co 9:21-22.

Fuente: Garner-Howes Baptist Commentary

9. Her friends and her neighbours Here the Church is perhaps a Church; we have a picture of the union of the various sections into which the universal Church must of necessity be divided; and it is a common rejoicing over the conversion of sinners and the triumphs of the cross.

Rejoice with me Just as these Scribes and Pharisees ought to have rejoiced with Jesus when stupid Jewish wanderers, or senseless Gentile outcasts, listened to his gospel and renounced their sins. This joy of the Church over the converted sinner is pictured forth by Jesus to show these doctors of the Jewish Church that if they are of the true Church they will rejoice too.

Which I have lost For the Church has lost every soul that is lost. Every soul is redeemed by Christ. Every soul is met as it enters probation with the saving power of the atonement, and is truly an heir of heaven. Every soul enters life a proper member of the Church; of which membership baptism is the true recognition. And if the soul be left unconscious, as a piece of metal, of its own worth, and become hard in sin, and buried in darkness and dust, with the image, not of the blessed Redeemer, but of the gods of heathenism, which are but forms of the devil, it is the Church who lost them, and the Church who may rejoice when she has found that which she had lost.

Fuente: Whedon’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments