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Commentary Index | Return to PrayerRequest.comJamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - Luke 19:9 - 19:9
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Jesus said unto him - but also before all.
This day, etc. - memorable saying! Salvation already come, but not a day old.
to this house - so expressed probably to meet the taunt, “He is gone to be guest,” etc. The house is no longer polluted; it is now fit to receive Me. But salvation to a house is an exceedingly precious idea, expressing the new air that would henceforth breathe in it, and the new impulses from its head which would reach its members (Psa 118:15; Act 16:15, Act 16:16, Act 16:31).
son of Abraham - He was that by birth, but here it means a partaker of his faith, being mentioned as the sufficient explanation of salvation having come to him.