Having put his hand to the plough (επιβαλων την χειρα επ' αροτρον). Second aorist active participle of επιβαλλω, an old and common…

No man, having put his hand, &c. To put one's hand to a plough is a proverbial expression to signify undertaking any business. So that a p…

No man, having put his hand to the plough . . .—The image which our Lord used was, as usual, one that went home to the pe…

And it came to pass, that, as they went in the way, a certain man said unto him, Lord, I will follow thee whithersoever thou goest. And Jesus s…

St. Cyril of Alexandria: Although the Almighty Lord is bountiful, He does not grant heavenly and divine gifts to everyone abso…

Although saying good-by is not at all the emotional equivalent of a funeral, it still represents a family duty that must be forsaken for service to…

He who, after having put his hand to the plough, shall look back, is unfit for the kingdom of God. We must carefully inquire what this dec…

And Jesus said unto him
The copulative "and", is left out in the Vulgate Latin, Syriac, Arabic, and Persic versions:…

Here is one who is eager to follow Christ, but seems to have been hasty and rash, and not to have counted the cost. If we intend to follow Christ, …