Tuesday, September 28, 2010

JW's Notes on RCL Gospel reading for Sunday 3rd

Luke 17:5-10
Luk 17:5 Lord, increase our faith - That we may thus forgive, and may neither offend nor be offended.
Luk 17:6 And he said, If ye had faith as a grain of mustard seed - If ye had the least measure of true faith, no instance of duty would be too hard for you. Ye would say to this sycamine tree - This seems to have been a kind of proverbial expression.
Luk 17:7 But which of you - But is it not meet that you should first obey, and then triumph? Though still with a deep sense of your utter unprofitableness.
Luk 17:9 Doth he thank that servant - Does he account himself obliged to him?
Luk 17:10 When ye have done all, say, We are unprofitable servants - For a man cannot profit God. Happy is he who judges himself an unprofitable servant: miserable is he whom God pronounces such. But though we are unprofitable to him, our serving him is not unprofitable to us. For he is pleased to give by his grace a value to our good works, which in consequence of his promise entitles us to an eternal reward.