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tion-Half an Hours Study of the Scrip
tures-Time Well Spent.
The lesson for Sunday. June /. may be
found In Luke 10: 25-37.
INTRODUCTORY.
There stands out before us In the present
lesson the figure OF the Good Samaritan.
an affecting picture OF Christ himself. COM
ing 10 seek and q save that which was lost.
The lesson OF it az is to be found in one
word-compassion CHI list comes near to
men. Christ takes hold OF men and lifts
them up. Christ takes tho burden or care
OF men upon himself And wherever you
find successful Christian work being done
1t is always in such spirit and at such
cost; ease and comfort laid aside. we'll
formed plans broken or. at least, modified:
a pause on the way, hand put out, u
shoul or put underneath, property and
purse made subject to spiritual demand
that Is what 1t takes to save souls. God
has given you some such precious trophies
in your work of late. Christian brother.
Is there one OF the saved who has not been
on some ones heart veritable burden; for
whom good Samaritan work has not been
done2
WHAT THE LESSON SAYS.
certain lawyer. One learned in the
law. Mark calls him one of the scribes.
MARK l2:2S) But a distinction seems to
be made at Luke IL :44-46. The term lawyer
seems to bo more general than that Of
expression ito sound" would come nearer
the meaning. The lawyer aimed to make
trial OF MIN to sec what he would say. The
same word Is used at Luke 4:12. Thou
shalt not tempt the Lord thy God" !. e..
put to uniillal test. CT. Deut. GIG; Elk. 17:7.
DO. The emphasis seems to be on
this wo.d. BY doing what snail l inherit
eternal life?-Inherit. BY right OF
mcIttorious labor. 1t was query OF work.
righteousness.
II
expressly the rulo5 Of a righteous life.-
How. This appears to be a reflection from
the preceding question, How obtain eternal
life?--Readest thou. A sort OF arsumen-
tum ad homnem. The lawyer was pro-
fessional reader OF the law.
Thou shalt love. This is OF manifested
love Ggapao.) With all thy heart. Lit
orally and eXpressvely. out of all thy heart
SO also In the particulars that follow. 1t
Ieers to an enlistment of all the energies Of
life.-Heart In New Testament Greek
generally, we should say, the seat OF the
intellect rather than with Us OF the feelings.
See Matt. 13: 15. SO here.-Soul. The
life principle (psyche). With all tho power
OF ones sonality.-StrenGth. Up TO
the measure of ones moral force-Mind.
Reflective power (dia-noia: to turn over in
the mindl. Heart" would thus refer TO ap-
prehension; mind" TO prehenslop.-
Thy neighbor. Literally. the near one
AS thysel. AS you love yourself /. g., with
a proper love.
Right. The answer Of the tongue better
than the answer OF the lfe.-This do. He
had asked what TO do. Christ let's him an
swer his own query.--Live. To do just
what the law requires would be essentially
eternal life. The law and the gospel are
not at variance. The one tells what to do.
the other how alone to do it.
Willing to justify or wishing to vindicate.
lie sees himself defeated and his weapon
turne d against mself-Who is my neigh
An ,rffu nj htft iua al Ua
would 9xeuso-hls eendaftt sGynarroWing his
obligution'.
Answering. More accurately, taking him
u2 hupo-labcn). The same word used Of
Simon the lharisee. Il suppose" Il would
venture). Luke z: 43. Cf Acts 2: ia
certain man. Lis insignilcance is a part
OF the argument. Never mind who.-Went
down. More accurately was going down
Umpe -fecD -Jerusalem to Jorlcho. A
down hill road; twenty miles.-Thieves.
Who could easily hido in the rocky fast
tcsscs Of the eway.-Stripped. Suggesting
the barbarous spolations OF the day. The
dress would be part of tho booty. So
with Christ on the cross luke 23: 3i)-
Wounded him. Literally inflicted blows.
Intmating their brutality and heartless-
ness.
Showed mercy. Literally, did mercy.
Do thou likewise Duty enforcing doctrine.
WHAT THE LESSON TEACHER
What stall l do? This is not like the
WluJ must L uOg OF ACtS 10: ~. NOT tho
what wilt thou have me to dp2" OF Acts
9: q. The emphasis is different; the whole
spirit is other. 1t is not the appeal of
p:nitent, tho agonized cry OF one anxious
TO know the way OF escape. Rather is 1t the
shrewd query OF one who desired to con-
fuse or entrap. He was taken according to
mis- intent, and in tho trap he set for an
other he himself presently found himself
cLught.
How readest thou2 Be careful how you
read, The matter and amount of this
lawyers reading was beyond reproach. 1t
was tle manner and temper of his rea1ing
that was at fault. There Is n great deal OF
good reading in the world-a great deal
and avery little. A large number Of people
arc reading good books; there are not so
many lood readers. What a multitude OF
Bibl9 readers to-day ana how few finding
thorein what every man ought at once to
discover-eternal lifel Here in this school
to-day many have the Book open; few have
opened the hearts door. pertinent ques-
ton to us all. How readest thou?"
Who Is my neighbour The lawyer was
w0r5ted in his first approach. Starting out
on the aggressive, he has suddenly turned
to be on the defensive. That is what the
expression. willing to justify himself,
means. Ho is trying to vindicate himself.
excuse his conduct. just now proven incon-
sistent and vain. And who is my neighbour
he retorts. Christ tells him just what he
asks. His real neighbor, his companion In
priest and heartless Levitc. He has no
neighborly feeling tor the Samaritan. None
whatever, so far as deeds go. for the man
who fell among thieves. He has really no
neivhbor other than himself.
He PASSED by on the other side. Not ex-
actly. The simple Greek is he passed on
by. Usually we think OF the priest and
Levite as coming near and then boldly and
basely turning aside out OF tho way-thcirs
a sort of outbreaking and insolent neglect.
But SO. They did nothing moro than
pa by. They came and looked and then
went right on their way without stopping
or swerving. So we have all done. and
very often. We have come up to an oppor-
tunity to do good. We have looked at II a
moment, and then-why then we passed on.
And that moment we committed the sin of
the Leyite. To fail OF charitableness or Of
Christliness we need not go out OF our way
at all. 1t was only the Good Samaritan who
went out OF his way
Go and do. The lawyer wanted to know
two things: First. what to do2 and, second.
whore to do It? Christ answers both
questions here. What2 Why, go. do just
what tho law you profess TO study says.
Where. to whom? Wherever and with
VIII oms soover the opportunity Offers. Which
showed himself neighborly2" The lawyer
answered. promptly "He that showed Tor.
rather. did mercy" Quick comes the re-
spoDse. Go and do thou" The application
Is personal enough.
Next Lesson-"Teachlng to Pray. Luke
IL: l. 13.
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