Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
stood—before all.
said unto the Lord, Behold, Lord—Mark how frequently Luke uses this title, and always where lordly authority, dignity, or power is intended.
if I have—that is, "so far as I have," for evidently the "if" is so used (as in Philippians 4:8).
taken by false accusation—defrauded, overcharged (Luke 3:12-13).
fourfold—The Roman law required this; the Jewish law, but the principal and a fifth more (Numbers 5:7). There was no demand made for either; but, as if to revenge himself on his hitherto reigning sin (see on John 20:28), and to testify the change he had experienced, besides surrendering the half of his fair gains to the poor, he voluntarily determines to give up all that was ill-gotten, quadrupled. He gratefully addressed this to the "Lord," to whom he owed the wonderful change.
Other Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown entries containing Luke 19:8:
Job 11:14
Ezekiel 33:15
Luke 3:13
Luke 19:2-4
Luke 19:2-4
John 4:45
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