Luke 14
EdwardsLuke 14:22-23
Luke 14:22, 23. In this parable is represented, 1st, The rejection of the Jews and the calling of the Gentiles, verse 22. But in the 23rd there is manifestly another general calling of the Gentiles spoken of; the first is that which is called the calling of the Gentiles; the next, that which is called in Scripture, the bringing in of the fullness of the Gentiles. It is manifest, therefore, by this text, that there remains yet another calling of the Gentiles than hath yet been.
Luke 14:26
Luke 14:26. “If any man come to Me, and hate not his father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brethren, and sisters, yea, and his own life also, he cannot be My disciple.” We must ‘hate’ these, considered as an exchange for Christ, or as offered to us as inducements to forsake Christ. In the same manner as a just judge is said to hate gifts: Proverbs 15:27, “He that is greedy of gain troubleth his own house: but he that hateth gifts shall live.” Are we to ‘hate’ father, etc.? It is not meant that the judge should hate gold, or silver, or goods, simply considered, but considered as offered as a purchase and bias of his judgment. And in the same manner as it is said in Son 8:7, “Many waters cannot quench love, neither can the floods drown it: if a man would give all the substance of his house for love, it would utterly be contemned,” not that it would be contemned simply and absolutely, but as offered as an exchange for those things which love seeks and desires.