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34 For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.

The Faithful Servant and the Evil Servant

35 a“Let your waist be girded and byour lamps burning;  
36 and you yourselves be like men who wait for their master, when he will return from the wedding, that when he comes and knocks they may open to him immediately.
37 aBlessed are those servants whom the master, when he comes, will find watching. Assuredly, I say to you that he will gird himself and have them sit down to eat, and will come and serve them.  
38 And if he should come in the second watch, or come in the third watch, and find them so, blessed are those servants.
39 aBut know this, that if the master of the house had known what hour the thief would come, he would1 have watched and not allowed his house to be broken into.  
40 aTherefore you also be ready, for the Son of Man is coming at an hour you do not expect.”  
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Luke 12:36

When he shall return from the marriage feast (pote analush ek twn gamwn). The interrogative conjunction pote and the deliberative aorist subjunctive retained in the indirect question. The verb analuw, very common Greek verb, but only twice in the N.T. (here and Philippians 1:23). The figure is breaking up a camp or loosening the mooring of a ship, to depart. Perhaps here the figure is from the standpoint of the wedding feast (plural as used of a single wedding feast in Luke 14:8), departing from there. See on Matthew 22:2.

When he cometh and knocketh (elqontov kai krousantov). Genitive absolute of the aorist active participle without autou and in spite of autoi (dative) being used after anoicwsin (first aorist active subjunctive of anoigw).




Other Robertson's Word Pictures (NT) entries containing Luke 12:36:

Luke 12:35
Luke 12:39
Luke 12:41
Luke 15:2
Philippians 1:23
Revelation 3:20

 

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