LUKE 11:45 — KING JAMES VERSION 0
“Then answered one of the lawyers, and said unto him, Master, thus saying thou reproachest us also.”
When you see a cloud rising in the west, immediately you say, it's going to rain, and it does; and when the south wind blows, you say it's going to be hot, and it is — the weather-reading capacity of the crowd is turned against their failure to read the present time. Hypocrites! You know how to interpret the appearance of the earth and the sky, but how is it that you don't know how to interpret this present time?
Church Fathers on Luke 11:45
A reproof which exalts the meek is generally hateful to the proud man. When therefore our Savior was blaming the Pharisees for transgressing from the right path, the body of Lawyers were struck with consternation. Hence it is said, Then answered one of the lawyers, and said to him, Master, thus saying you reproach us also.
In what a grievous state is that conscience, which hearing the word of God thinks it a reproach against itself, and in the account of the punishment of the wicked perceives its own condemnation.
Now the Lawyers were different from the Pharisees. For the Pharisees being separated from the rest had the appearance of a religious sect; but those skilled in the Law were the Scribes and Doctors who solved legal questions.
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