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Commentary Index | Return to PrayerRequest.comJamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - Luke 9:24 - 9:24
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will save - “Is minded to save,” bent on saving. The pith of this maxim depends - as often in such weighty sayings (for example, “Let the dead bury the dead,” Mat 8:22) - on the double sense attached to the word “life,” a lower and a higher, the natural and the spiritual, temporal and eternal. An entire sacrifice of the lower, or a willingness to make it, is indispensable to the preservation of the higher life; and he who cannot bring himself to surrender the one for the sake of the other shall eventually lose both.