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Won`t God avenge his elect, who are crying out to him day and night, and yet he exercises patience with them?
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God is Not the Unjust Judge
Commentators stress that this parable works by contrast, not comparison. If a wicked judge, who doesn't care about God or people, will grant a request just to be left alone, how much more will a loving, just God respond to the persistent prayers of His chosen people whom He loves dearly? This is an argument for unwavering confidence in prayer.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
Concerning the phrase Shall not God avenge, etc., we should not suppose that the character of God is at all represented by this judge, or …
And he is longsuffering (μακροθυμε). This present active indicative comes in awkwardly after the aorist subjunctive ποιηση after ο…
19th Century
Anglican
And shall not God avenge his own elect?—There is at first something that feels jarring to us in this choice of an extreme…
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Baptist
And he spake a parable unto them to this end, that men ought always to pray, and not to faint; saying, There was in a city a judge, which feare…
“Chosen ones” (GK 1723) is a term used throughout Scripture to describe those who, at the end of history, are marked out as on the victorious side …
16th Century
Protestant
And shall not God avenge his elect? That judge, whom Christ has described to us as utterly unprincipled—not only hardened against…
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
And shall not God avenge his own elect Who are a select number, a special people, whom he has loved with an everlast…
All God's people are praying people. Here, earnest steadiness in prayer for spiritual mercies is taught. The widow's earnestness prevailed even wit…
