{"id":25412,"date":"2022-09-24T11:05:34","date_gmt":"2022-09-24T16:05:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/exegetical-and-hermeneutical-commentary-of-luke-1125\/"},"modified":"2022-09-24T11:05:34","modified_gmt":"2022-09-24T16:05:34","slug":"exegetical-and-hermeneutical-commentary-of-luke-1125","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/exegetical-and-hermeneutical-commentary-of-luke-1125\/","title":{"rendered":"Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Luke 11:25"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 align='center'><b><i> And when he cometh, he findeth [it] swept and garnished. <\/i><\/b><\/h3>\n<p> <strong> 25<\/strong>. <em> swept and garnished<\/em> ] The mischief and danger of the emancipated soul is that it is not occupied by a New Indweller. It has not tested the expulsive power of holy affections. It is &lsquo;lying idle&rsquo; (  <em> ,<\/em> <span class='bible'>Mat 12:44<\/span>), i.e. &lsquo;to let.&rsquo;<\/p>\n<h4 align='right'><i><b>Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n<p><strong>And when he cometh, he findeth it swept and garnished.<\/strong> In Matthew it is also said to be &#8220;empty&#8221;; and so it is read here in the Arabic version; and in the Ethiopic version, &#8220;empty of men&#8221;: but rather the sense is, that he found it empty of all goodness, notwithstanding all the sweeping and garnish of an outward reformation. The Persic version renders it, &#8220;heated and prepared&#8221;; heated with wrath and fury against Christ, and his Gospel, and so was prepared and fitted to be a proper habitation for Satan; and in such a case as this was the Jewish nation from the time of Christ&#8217;s death to the destruction of Jerusalem; <span class='bible'>[See comments on Mt 12:44]<\/span><\/p>\n<h4 align='right'><i><b>Fuente: John Gill&#8217;s Exposition of the Entire Bible<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n<p><strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>1) <strong>&#8220;And when he cometh, he findeth it swept,&#8221; <\/strong>(kai elthon heuriskei sesaromenon) &#8220;And when he came he found it had been swept,&#8221; cleansed. It was like whitewash on the cover of a poisoned well, a case of moral reformation, without regeneration, or the new birth, <span class='bible'>Joh 3:3<\/span>; <span class='bible'>Joh 3:5<\/span>; <span class='bible'>Tit 3:5<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>2) <strong>&#8220;And garnished.&#8221; <\/strong>(kai kekosmemenon) &#8220;And that it had been furnished,&#8221; but empty, all dressed up, beautified, equipped, furnished, like Judas Iscariot, the Rich barn builder, and the rich man in hell, <span class='bible'>Luk 16:19-31<\/span>.<\/p>\n<h4 align='right'><i><b>Fuente: Garner-Howes Baptist Commentary<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n<p> 25 And when he cometh, he findeth <em> it<\/em> swept and garnished. <strong> <\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><\/strong><\/p>\n<p> Ver. 25. <strong> Swept and garnished<\/strong> ] By a little formal repentance, and a few faint resolutions of reformation. <\/p>\n<h4 align='right'><i><b>Fuente: John Trapp&#8217;s Complete Commentary (Old and New Testaments)<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n<p>garnished = adorned. <\/p>\n<h4 align='right'><i><b>Fuente: Companion Bible Notes, Appendices and Graphics<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n<p>he findeth: 2Ch 24:17-22, Psa 36:3, Psa 81:11, Psa 81:12, Psa 125:5, Mat 12:44, Mat 12:45, 2Th 2:9-12, 2Pe 2:10-19, Jud 1:8 -13<\/p>\n<h4 align='right'><i><b>Fuente: The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And when he cometh, he findeth [it] swept and garnished. 25. swept and garnished ] The mischief and danger of the emancipated soul is that it is not occupied by a New Indweller. It has not tested the expulsive power of holy affections. It is &lsquo;lying idle&rsquo; ( , Mat 12:44), i.e. &lsquo;to let.&rsquo; Fuente: &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/exegetical-and-hermeneutical-commentary-of-luke-1125\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Luke 11:25&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25412","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-commentary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25412","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25412"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25412\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}