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Commentary Index | Return to PrayerRequest.comJamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - Luke 10:36 - 10:36
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Which ... was neighbour? - a most dexterous way of putting the question: (1) Turning the question from, “Whom am I to love as my neighbor?” to “Who is the man that shows that love?” (2) Compelling the lawyer to give a reply very different from what he would like - not only condemning his own nation, but those of them who should be the most exemplary. (3) Making him commend one of a deeply hated race. And he does it, but it is almost extorted. For he does not answer, “The Samaritan” - that would have sounded heterodox, heretical - but “He that showed mercy on him.” It comes to the same thing, no doubt, but the circumlocution is significant.