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A Joy That Leaps
Commentators note that the command is not just to be happy, but to 'leap for joy.' This intense, physical expression of joy is a radical response to persecution. Scholars describe it as a 'religious joy' that comes from sharing in the salvation of God's kingdom, even while experiencing hardship.
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AT Robertson
On Luke 6:23
Leap for joy (σκιρτησατε). Old verb and in LXX, but only in Luke in the N.T. (here and 1:41,44). It answers to Matthew's ([Referen…
Charles Ellicott
On Luke 6:23
19th Century
Bishop
Leap for joy.—The word is peculiar to Saint Luke in the New Testament, and occurs elsewhere only in Luke 1:41;[Reference Luke 1:4…
Expositor's Bible Commentary
On Luke 6:23
Luke’s version of the blessings (or “Beatitudes”) is shorter than Matthew’s and is different in some particulars; he also includes a negative form …
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John Gill
On Luke 6:23
17th Century
Pastor
Rejoice you in that day
When they should be hated, discarded, reproached, and anathematized: and leap for joy; as if…
Matthew Henry
On Luke 6:20–26
17th Century
Minister
Here begins a discourse of Christ, most of which is also found in Matthew chapters 5 and 7. But some think that this was preached at another time a…