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The Law as a Mirror
Commentators explain that Jesus directs the lawyer to the law not because works can save, but to do the opposite. The law's perfect standard acts as a mirror, revealing our inability to keep it perfectly. This conviction of our own sinfulness is meant to lead us away from self-righteousness and toward God's mercy found in Christ.
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Albert Barnes
On Luke 10:26
18th Century
Theologian
What is written, and so on. Jesus referred him to the law as a safe rule and asked him what was said there. The lawyer was doubtl…
AT Robertson
On Luke 10:26
How readest thou? (πως αναγινωσκεισ; ). As a lawyer it was his business to know the facts in the law and the proper interpretation…
Charles Spurgeon
On Luke 10:25–26
19th Century
Preacher
And, behold, a certain lawyer stood up, and tempted him, saying, Master, what shall I do to inherit eternal life? He said unto him, What is wri…
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Expositor's Bible Commentary
On Luke 10:26
Jesus’ counterquestion does not constitute an affirmation of the assumption behind the question but directs the questioner back to the commandments…
John Calvin
On Luke 10:26
16th Century
Theologian
What is written in the law? He receives from Christ a reply different from what he had expected. And, indeed, no other rule for a holy and…
John Gill
On Luke 10:26
17th Century
Pastor
What is written in the law?
&c.] Christ, with great propriety, sends him to the law, to see and observe what was wri…
Matthew Henry
On Luke 10:25–37
17th Century
Minister
If we speak of eternal life, and the way to it, in a careless manner, we take the name of God in vain. No one will ever love God and his neighbor w…