LUKE 11:48 — KING JAMES VERSION 0
“Truly ye bear witness that ye allow the deeds of your fathers: for they indeed killed them, and ye build their sepulchres.”
The Tower of Siloam that fell and killed eighteen — were they worse offenders than all the others living in Jerusalem? No, I tell you, but unless you repent, you too will all perish. Both the political massacre and the architectural accident produce the same answer: do not calculate your own safety by comparing your sin quotient to the victims'. The urgency is not to explain their death but to respond to your own mortality with repentance.
Church Fathers on Luke 11:48
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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