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Luke 6:38

The Pulpit Commentary on Luke 6:38

The Pulpit Commentary · Joseph S. Exell and contributors · Public domain

Give, and it shall be given unto you; good measure, pressed down, and shaken together, and running over. The grand characteristic feature of the society of his followers must be generosity. They must be known among men as givers rather than judges.

Boundless generosity, limitless kindness to all, saint and sinner?봳hat is what he, the Master, would press home to those who would follow his lead (see 3혻, 3혻). Men would find out in time what generous friends they were, and would in their turn freely give to them.

Shall men give into your bosom. The image is an Eastern one. In the dress then worn, a largo bag-shaped fold in the robe above the cincture or girdle was used instead of a pocket.

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