{"collection":"Bible & Christianity","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/bib/cmt/wesley/luk008.htm","path":"bib/cmt/wesley/luk008.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/bib/cmt/wesley/luk008.htm","text":"Explanatory Notes on the Whole Bible, by John Wesley, [1754-65]\n \nLuke 8:2\n \nluk 8:2\nMary Magdalene - Or Mary of Magdala, a town in Galilee: probably the person mentioned in the last chapter. \nLuke 8:4\n \nluk 8:4\nMat 13:1; Mar 4:1. \nLuke 8:15\n \nluk 8:15\nWho - keep it - Not like the highway side: And bring forth fruit - Not like the thorny ground: With perseverance - Not like the stony. \nLuke 8:16\n \nluk 8:16\nNo man having lighted a candle - As if ho had said, And let your good fruit appear openly. Mat 5:15; Mar 4:21; Luk 11:33. \nLuke 8:17\n \nluk 8:17\nFor nothing is hid - Strive not to conceal it at all; for you can conceal nothing long. Mat 10:26; Mar 4:22; Luk 12:2. \nLuke 8:18\n \nluk 8:18\nThe word commonly translated seemeth, wherever it occurs, does not weaken, but greatly strengthens the sense. Mat 13:12; Mar 4:25; Luk 19:26. \nLuke 8:19\n \nluk 8:19\nMat 12:46; Mar 3:31. \nLuke 8:22\n \nluk 8:22\nMat 8:23; Mar 4:35. \nLuke 8:26\n \nluk 8:26\nMat 8:28; Mar 5:1. \nLuke 8:29\n \nluk 8:29\nFor many times it had caught him - Therefore our compassionate Lord made the more haste to cast him out. \nLuke 8:31\n \nluk 8:31\nThe abyss - That is, the bottomless pit. \nLuke 8:32\n \nluk 8:32\nTo enter into the swine - Not that they were any easier in the swine than out of them. Had it been so, they would not so soon have dislodged themselves, by destroying the herd. \nLuke 8:37\n \nluk 8:37\nMat 9:1; Mar 5:18. \nLuke 8:40\n \nluk 8:40\nMar 5:21. \nLuke 8:52\n \nluk 8:52\nShe is not dead but sleepeth - Her soul is not separated finally from the body; and this short separation is rather to be called sleep than death.","title":"Explanatory Notes on the Whole Bible: Luke: Luke Chapter 8","type":"page"}