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A Settled Heart of Trust
Commentators explain that "settle it in your hearts" means to make a firm, unwavering decision. The command is to resolve ahead of time that in moments of persecution, your reliance will be on God's provision, not your own pre-planned speeches. This is a principle of deep trust to be established before the trial ever begins.
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Albert Barnes
On Luke 21:14
18th Century
Theologian
Settle it therefore in your hearts. Fix it firmly in your minds—so firmly as to become a settled principle—that you are always to depend o…
AT Robertson
On Luke 21:14
Not to meditate beforehand (μη προμελεταιν). The classical word for conning a speech beforehand. Mr 13:11 has προμεριμναω, a later…
Charles Ellicott
On Luke 21:14
19th Century
Bishop
Not to meditate before . . .—The word differs from that used in the parallel passage of Mark 13:11, take no thought
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Charles Spurgeon
On Luke 21:12–16
19th Century
Preacher
But before all these, they shall lay their hands on you, and persecute you, delivering you up to the synagogues, and into prisons, being brough…
Expositor's Bible Commentary
On Luke 21:14
Encouragement during persecution. In its content this section bears some similarity to Mk 13:9–13 and also the account of the sending out of the Tw…
John Gill
On Luke 21:14
17th Century
Pastor
Settle it therefore in your hearts Resolve on this in your minds, and let it be a rule never to be departed from:
Matthew Henry
On Luke 21:5–28
17th Century
Minister
With much curiosity, those around Christ ask about the time when the great desolation would occur. He answers with clarity and fullness, to the ext…