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He said to him, "You have answered correctly. Do this, and you will live."
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The Law's Impossible Standard
Commentators agree that when Jesus says, "Do this, and you will live," He is highlighting an impossible standard for sinful humanity. The command requires perpetual, perfect love for God and neighbor. Scholars explain this isn't a simple roadmap to salvation but a way to show the lawyer (and us) that we cannot earn eternal life through our own efforts, thus revealing our desperate need for God's grace.
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Thou hast answered right (ορθως απεκριθης). First aorist passive indicative second singular with the adverb ορθως. The answer was …
19th Century
Anglican
Thou hast answered right.—The acceptance of the lawyer’s answer as theoretically true was part of the method of our Lord’…
Baptist
And, behold, a certain lawyer stood up, and tempted Him, saying, Master, what shall I do to inherit eternal life? And He, answering, said, Thou…
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Jesus affirms that the man has answered correctly. This does not mean that the inquirer has grasped the full meaning of the law, nor does it endors…
16th Century
Protestant
Do this, and you shall live. I have explained a little before how this promise agrees with freely bestowed justification by faith: for the…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
And he said unto him, you have answered right It is so written, and read; and this, as if he should say, is the sum …
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Presbyterian
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…
