THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO LUKE - Chapter 10 - Verse 36
Verse 36. Was neighbour. Showed the kindness of a neighbour, or
evinced the proper feelings of a neighbour. The lawyer had asked him
who was his neighbour? Jesus in this beautiful narrative showed him
who and what a neighbour was, and he did this in a way that disarmed
his prejudice, deeply affected him in regard to his own duty, and
evinced the beauty of religion. Had he at first told him that a
Samaritan might be a neighbour to a Jew and deserve his kindness, he
would have been at once revolted at it; but when, by a beautiful and
affecting narrative, he brought the man himself to see that it might
be, he was constrained to admit it. Here we see the beauty of a parable
and its use. It disarmed prejudice, fixed the attention, took the mind
gently yet irresistibly, and prevented the possibility of cavil or
objection. Compare, also, the address of Nathan to David,
2 Sa 12:1-7.
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