Luke 14:19 BSB — MannaFest

Luke 14:19

Another said, ‘I have bought five yoke of oxen, and I am going to try them out. Please excuse me.’

BSB

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ASV

And another said, I have bought five yoke of oxen, and I go to prove them; I pray thee have me excused.

KJV

And another said, I have bought five yoke of oxen, and I go to prove them: I pray thee have me excused.

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Commentary

3 voices

Origen of Alexandria

Catena Aurea by Aquinas (253)

He who has bought five yoke of oxen is he who neglects his intellectual nature, and follows the things of sense, therefore he cannot comprehend a spiritual nature.

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The Church Fathers1 voice

Ambrose of Milan

Catena Aurea by Aquinas (397)

Or let us suppose that three classes of men are excluded from partaking of that supper, Gentiles, Jews, Heretics. The Jews by their fleshly service impose upon themselves the yoke of the law, for the five yoke are the yoke of the Ten Commandments, of which it is said, And he declared unto you his covenant, which he commanded you to perform, even ten commandments; and he wrote them upon two tables of stone. (Deut. 4:13.) That is, the commands of the Decalogue. Or the five yoke are the five books of the old law.

The Nineteenth Century3 voices

Albert Barnes

1798–1870

Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)

I go to prove them - To try them, to see if he had made a good bargain. It is worthy of remark that this excuse was very trifling. He could as easily have tried them at any other time as then, and his whole conduct shows that he was more disposed to gratify “himself” than to accept the invitation of his friend. He was selfish; just as all sinners are, who, to gratify their own worldliness and sins, refuse to accept the offers of the gospel.

J.C. Ryle

1816–1900

Expository Thoughts on the Gospels: Luke (lightly modernized text, Grace Gems edition) (1858)

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Original language & word study

16 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
καὶ	kai	And	G2532 →
ἕτερος	heteros	another	G2087 →
εἶπεν·	eipen	said;	G2036 →
ζεύγη	zeugē	Yoke	G2201 →
βοῶν	boōn	of oxen	G1016 →
ἠγόρασα	ēgorasa	I have bought	G59 →
πέντε	pente	five	G4002 →
καὶ	kai	and	G2532 →
πορεύομαι	poreuomai	I am going	G4198 →
δοκιμάσαι	dokimasai	to prove	G1381 →
αὐτά·	auta	them;	G846 →
ἐρωτῶ	erōtō	I beg of	G2065 →
σε,	se	you	G4771 →
ἔχε	eche	do hold	G2192 →
με	me	me	G3165 →
παρῃτημένον.	parētēmenon	excused.	G3868 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

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