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Commentary Index | Return to PrayerRequest.comJamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - Luke 12:13 - 12:13
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Luk 12:13-53. Covetousness - Watchfulness - Superiority to earthly ties.
Master, etc. - that is, “Great Preacher of righteousness, help; there is need of Thee in this rapacious world; here am I the victim of injustice, and that from my own brother, who withholds from me my rightful share of the inheritance that has fallen to us.” In this most inopportune intrusion upon the solemnities of our Lord’s teaching, there is a mixture of the absurd and the irreverent, the one, however, occasioning the other. The man had not the least idea that his case was not of as urgent a nature, and as worthy the attention of our Lord, as anything else He could deal with.