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LUKE 12:14 — KING JAMES VERSION 0
Luke 12:13Luke 12:15
“And he said unto him, Man, who made me a judge or a divider over you?”
Consider the ravens: they do not sow or reap, they have no storeroom or barn; yet God feeds them — the ravens echo Elijah's raven-fed days at Kerith (1 Kings 17:4-6) and the psalm's declaration that God provides for the animals (Psalm 147:9). And how much more valuable you are than birds! The argument from lesser to greater grounds the disciples' security in the same providential faithfulness that sustains all creation.

Church Fathers on Luke 12:14

The whole of the former passage is given to prepare us for undergoing suffering for confessing the Lord, or for contempt of death, or for the hope of reward, or for denunciation of the punishment that will await him to whom pardon will never be granted. And since covetousness is generally wont to try virtue, for destroying this also, a precept and example is added, as it is said, And one of the company said to him, Speak to my brother, that he divide the inheritance with me.

Ambrose · 4th century

As these two brothers were contending concerning the division of their paternal inheritance, it follows that one meant to defraud the other; but our Lord teaches us that we ought not to be set on earthly things, and rebukes him that called Him to the division of inheritance; as it follows, And he said to him, Man, who made me a judge or a divider over you?

Theophylact · 11th century

He who wills to impose the trouble of division of lands upon the Master who is commending the joys of heavenly peace, is rightly called man, according to that, whereas there is envying, strife, and divisions among you, are you not men?

Bede · 8th century
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