{"collection":"Bible & Christianity","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/bib/cmt/sco/luk017.htm","path":"bib/cmt/sco/luk017.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/bib/cmt/sco/luk017.htm","text":"The Scofield Bible Commentary, by Cyrus Ingerson Scofield, [1917]\ntrespass\nSin\n(See Scofield) - (Rom 3:23).\nobservation\nOr, outward show.\nwithin you\nin the midst of.\n(Greek, \"entos\", means \"in the midst\"). It could not be said of a self-righteous, Christ rejecting pharisee, that the kingdom of God, as to its spiritual content, was within him. Our Lord's whole answer, designedly enigmatic to the Pharisees (cf) (Mat 13:10-13) had a dispensational meaning. The kingdom in its outward form, as covenanted to David (Sa2 7:8-17) and described by the prophets\n(See Scofield) - (Zac 12:8)\nhad been rejected by the Jews; so that, during this present age, it would not \"come with observation\" (literally, \"outward show\"), but in the hearts of men.\nCompare (Luk 19:11); (Luk 19:12); (Act 1:6-8).\n(See Scofield) - (Act 1:6).\n(See Scofield) - (Rom 14:17).\nMeantime, the kingdom was actually \"in the midst\" of the Pharisees in the persons of the King and His disciples.\nSon of man\n(See Scofield) - (Mat 8:20).\nWheresoever\nSee \"Armageddon\". (Rev 16:14); (Rev 19:17).\n(See Scofield) - (Rev 19:17).","title":"The Scofield Bible Commentary: Luke: Luke Chapter 17","type":"page"}