Luke — Chapter 9
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Verse 27
27. Til they see.) The Transfiguration. To the Apostles, that had to preach the Kingdom of God and to suffer so much miserie for the same in this world, he would shew his glorie, and giue them a tast of his owne ioyful state and of his Saints in Heauen, calling thither Moyses and Elias, that the Law and Prophets might be witnesses of the same. See the annotation vpon S. Matthew c. 17,2.
Verse 53
53. Face to goe to Hierusalem.) Schismatikes. The Samaritans were Schismatikes from the Iewes, and had a Schismatical temple in mount Garizim, of purpose to draw men thither from Gods temple in Hierusalem, where only was the true and as it were the Catholike seruice and Sacrifice vnto God. Therfore they did not gladly receiue our Sauiour, because they perceiued he was going to Hierusalem. Iohn. 4,9. 3. King. 12,17. Tob. 1.
Verse 62
62. No man looking backe.) Looking backe. It is a dangerous temptation for a man that hath lost or left his goods for Christ, to looke much backe at them, and to remember with delight the pleasures and eases of this world. For it breedeth in him discontentment of the troubles and crosses that are incident to the state of such as fully follow Christ. In which case a man should euer looke forward towards Heauen, and neuer backward to the world.