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Luke 20:44 — King James Version← Study notes

David therefore calleth him Lord, how is he then his son?


Luke 20:44Greek Interlinear

Greek · Luke 20:4410 words
GreekMeaning
ΔαυὶδDauid
DavidnounG1138
οὖνoun
thereforewordG3767
αὐτὸνauton
LordpronounG846
κύριονkyrion
HimnounG2962
καλεῖkalei
callsverbG2564
καὶkai
andwordG2532
πῶςpōs
howadverbG4459
αὐτοῦautou
of himpronounG846
υἱόςhyios
sonnounG5207
ἐστινestin
is He?verbG1510
Greek text from the SBL Greek New Testament (SBLGNT). Transliteration follows SBL Academic conventions.

Church Fathers on Luke 20:44

Although our Lord was shortly about to enter on His Passion, He proclaims His own Godhead, and that too neither incautiously nor boastfully, but with modesty. For He puts a question to them, and having thrown them into perplexity, leaves them to reason out the conclusion; as it follows, And he said to them, How say they that Christ is David’s son?

Theophylact · 11th century

They are not blamed here because they acknowledge Him to be David’s Son, for the blind man for so doing was thought worthy to be healed. And the children saying, Hosanna to the Son of David, rendered to God the glory of the highest praise; but they are blamed because they believe Him not to be the Son of God. Hence it is added, And David himself says in the book of Psalms, The Lord said to my Lord. Both the Father is Lord and the Son is Lord, but there are not two Lords, but…

Ambrose · 4th century

By the sitting we must not conceive a posture of the human limbs, as if the Father sat on the left and the Son on the right, but the right hand itself we must interpret to be the power which that Man received who was taken up into Himself by God, that He should come to judge, who at first came to be judged.

Augustine · 4th century
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