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Luke

Chapter 11 (Continued)

{Internal Light}
11:33`` "No one, lighting a candle/lamp
puts it in a cellar/crypt/'hidden place' {krupte}
or under a grain-basket/bushel {modios},
rather {alla}, on a lampstand/ candelabrum {luchnia} . . .
so that those coming in
can see/'glance at' {blepo} the light.

11:34``Your eye is the lamp {luchnos} of your body.

When your eyes may work well
  {idiom: literally 'when your eyes may be single {of single focus}'},
your whole body is full of light.

But when they {your eyes} do not {work well in bringing in light} . . .
your body is full of darkness.

{Note: In Revelation, the hero elect angels are said to wear a 'coat of eyes'. This apparently is like their medal of honor. Eyes represent perception. And light represents God's divine viewpoint. When you take in God's Word and voluntarily replace your own human viewpoint with doctrinal divine viewpoint, then your soul is being filled with light! Otherwise, it is full of human viewpoint, which is called 'darkness'. One of Satan's titles is the 'dark one'. God did create Satan perfect, but from his own free will, deviated from God's thinking into his own - thereby creating 'creature viewpoint'. We start in our soul human viewpoint. We can 1) live all our lives with human viewpoint or 2)fall into Satan's form of darkness through demon possession or demon influence, or 3) move up to the Light of the World - have the Mind of Christ in our soul. Those are our choices.}

11:35``Be constantly scrutinizing yourself {skopeo - an order}
therefore, that the 'light in you' {your viewpoint}
is not darkness
  {anything but divine viewpoint - human or Satanic viewpoint are
  two of which we know}.

11:36``If {ei} your whole body is 'full of light' {photeinos}
with no part in the dark {skoteinos}
- and assuming it is true {1st class condition of assumption} -
it will be as 'full of light' {photeinos}
like when the 'bright light' {astrape} of a lamp
shines on you."

{Rebuking the Pharisees and Experts in the Law}
11:37~~Now as He {Jesus} spoke,
a certain Pharisee kept on inviting Him {Jesus}
to have a meal with him.

So going in, He 'reclined at the table' {anapipto}.

11:38``Now when the Pharisee was seeing
that He {Jesus} absolutely did not {ouk}
first wash {baptizo}
before the meal . . .
he was astonished.

11:39``Then the Lord said face to face with him {the Pharisee},
"Now you Pharisees clean the outside of the cup and the plate . . .
but inside you are full of 'the act of plundering'/greed {harpage}
and 'evil desires'/wickedness {poneria}.

11:40`` {You} 'Without Reason!'/'Stupid Ones!'/Fools! {aphron}
Didn't the One Who made the outside . . .
make the inside as well?

11:41``Rather,
the things which are inside . . . give . . . like alms . . .
and, behold, all things are clean to you.

42``- Woe to you Pharisees,
for you pay tithe {works, keeps the law etc.}
of mint and rue {a plant}
and every kind of garden herb . . .
and yet you disregard justice
and the love {agape} of God.

But these are things you should have done
while neglecting the others."
  {Jesus is saying forget about tithing and learn something about
  justice and love}

11:43``Woe to you Pharisees . . .
because you love {agapao}
the highest {and therefore best} seats in the synagogues
and 'flattering greetings' {aspasmos} in the marketplaces!

11:44`` Woe to you,
because you are like 'unmarked graves'/
'graves not whitewashed are indistinct' . . .
and people walk over them
  {under Jewish law to walk on a grave makes one 'ritualistically
  unclean'}
without knowing it!"

11:45``Then one of the 'experts in religious law' {nomikos}
'had an answer for'/'gave a discerning answer
from the ultimate source of himself to' {apokrinomai} said,
"Teacher {didaskalos},
saying these things . . . You rebuke/insult {hubrizo} us also."

11:46``So He {Jesus} replies,
"Woe to you also 'experts in religious law',
because you load people down with burdens difficult to bear
yet you yourselves refuse to touch the burdens
with one of your fingers!

11:47`` Woe to you,
because you build the tombs/sepulcher {mnemeion}
of the prophets . . .
and your ancestors killed them.

11:48`` So then, you testify/'bear witness'
that you altogether approve of the deeds of your ancestors . . .
because they indeed killed them {the prophets}
and you build their tombs.

11:49-51``For this reason
also the wisdom {sophia} of God said,
'I will 'send on a mission with my authority' {apostello} them
prophets and ambassadors/apostles {apostolos},
some of whom they will kill and persecute,' 11:50``
for the purpose that
this generation may be held accountable
for the blood of all the prophets
that has been shed since the beginning of the world, 11:51``
from the blood of Abel to the blood of Zechariah,
who was killed between the altar and the sanctuary.

Yes, I {Jesus} tell you, it will be charged against this generation.

11:52`` Woe to you 'experts in religious law' {nomikos},
because you have taken away the key to knowledge {gnosis}!

You absolutely did not {ouk} go in yourselves . . .
and you hindered those who were going in."

11:53-54``And after He {Jesus} went out from there,
the 'experts in the law' and the Pharisees
began to oppose/'set themselves against' Him bitterly,
and to ask Him hostile questions about many things, 11:54``
plotting against Him,
to catch him in something He might say.

{Note: They were trying to get Him to say something that they could use to discredit Him.}

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