Quotes & Notes on:     Luke 12:32   John Wesley,  Notes On the New Testament (1755): It is your Father's good pleasure to give you the kingdom-How much more food and raiment? And since ye have such an inheritance, regard not your earthly possessions. Reginald Fuller's Preaching the Lectionary (1984):  To be posted.   William Baird, Interpreter's Commentary, 1971:  To be posted.   J. McNicol, The New Bible Commentary, 1954:  To be posted.   I.H. Marshall, The New Bible Commentary, 1970:  To be posted.   David Guzik, Study Guide: To be posted.   Chuck Smith, Study Guide: To be posted.   Catechism of the Catholic Church: To be posted.   J. Norval Geldenhuys, Bible Expositor, 1960: To be posted.   Abingdon Bible Commentary (1929): To be posted.   D.D. Whedon, Commentary on Luke, 1866: To be posted.   Joseph Parker, People's Bible, 1901: To be posted.   Anchor Bible: To be posted.   The Fourfold Gospel:  Little flock; for it is your Father's good pleasure to give you the kingdom. The original for the words "little flock" is a double diminutive, indicating at once the extreme smallness of the band of disciples, and also the tenderness of the Master for them. They are exhorted to remember that they are the heirs of the heavenly kingdom, and that their treasures are there. Treasury of Scripture Knowledge: * little. Song 1:7,8; Isa 40:11; 41:14*marg:| Isa 53:6; Mt 7:15; 18:12-14; 20:16; Joh 10:26-30 * it is. Lu 10:21; Mt 11:25-27; Eph 1:5-9; Php 2:13; 2Th 1:11 * the kingdom. Jer 3:19; Mt 25:34; Joh 18:36; Ro 6:23; 8:28-32; 2Th 1:5; Heb 12:28 Jas 2:5; 1Pe 1:3-5; 2Pe 1:11; Re 1:6; 22:5   Robertson's Word Pictures: Little flock (to mikron poimnion). Vocative with the article as used in Hebrew and often in the Koiné and so in the N.T. See both pater and ho patêr in the vocative in Lu 10:21. See Robertson, Grammar, pp. 465f. Poimnion (flock) is a contraction from poimenion from poimên (shepherd) instead of the usual poimnê (flock). So it is not a diminutive and mikron is not superfluous, though it is pathetic. For it is your Father's good pleasure (hoti eudokêsen ho patêr humôn). First aorist active indicative of eudokeô. Timeless aorist as in Lu 3:22. This verse has no parallel in Matthew.   William Burkitt's Notes: That is, fear not the want of any of these comforts, and be not over solictous for them; for your Father, which has provided a kingdom for you hereafter, will not suffer you to want such things as are needful for you here. Learn, 1. That the disciples of Christ are very subject to disquieting and perplexing fears, but must by no means cherish, but oppose them: a fear of present wants, a fear of future sufferings, a fear of death approaching, a fear that they shall not find acceptance with God, a fear lest they should fall fully or finally from God; the fear of all these evils does often times disturb them and discompose them. Learn, 2. That Jesus Christ is the great Shepherd of his church: the love and care the compassion and tenderness, the prudence and providence, the guidance and vigilance of a good shepherd are found within him. 3. As Christ is the church's Shepherd, so the church is Christ's flock, though a little flock, in opposition to the huge herds and droves of the men of the world. 4. That God the Father has a kingdom in store for his little flock, his church and children. 5. That the good will and gracious pleasure of God is the original spring and fontal cause, from whence all divine favors do proceed and flow: It is your Father's good pleasure to give you the kingdom.   Family Bible Notes: The kingdom; of heavenly glory. Mt 3:2.   1599 Geneva Bible Notes: It is a foolish thing not to look for small things at the hands of him who freely gives us the greatest things.   People's New Testament Commentary:  Fear not, little flock. The flock is safe only because of the Shepherd's care. The Lord is the Shepherd, and it is his pleasure to give not only food and raiment, but the kingdom to his children.   Albert Barnes' Commentary:  Little flock. Our Saviour often represents himself as a shepherd, and his followers as a flock or as sheep. The figure was beautiful. In Judea it was a common employment to attend flocks. The shepherd was with them, defended them, provided for them, led them to green pastures and beside still waters. In all these things Jesus was and is eminently the Good Shepherd. His flock was small. Few really followed him, compared with the multitude who professed to love him. But, though small in number, they were not to fear. God was their Friend. He would provide for them. It was his purpose to give them the kingdom, and they had nothing to fear, see Mt 6:19-21. {b} "little flock" Isa 40:11; Joh 10:27,28 {c} "it is the father's good pleasure" Mt 25:34; Joh 18:36; Heb 12:28 Jas 2:5; 2Pe 1:11; Re 1:6; 22:5   Jamieson-Faussett Brown:   little flock, &c.--How sublime and touching a contrast between this tender and pitying appellation, "Little flock" (in the original a double diminutive, which in German can be expressed, but not in English)--and the "good pleasure" of the Father to give them the Kingdom; the one recalling the insignificance and helplessness of that then literal handful of disciples, the other holding up to their view the eternal love that encircled them, the everlasting arms that were underneath them, and the high inheritance awaiting them!--"the kingdom"; grand word; then why not "bread" (Lu 12:31 [BENGEL]). Well might He say, "Fear not!"   Spurgeon Devotional Commentary:  No comment on this specific verse.   Adam Clarke's Commentary:  Fear not, little flock] Or, very little flock, to . This is what some term a double diminutive, and, literally translated, is, little little flock. Though this refers solely to the apostles and first believers, of whom it was literally true, yet we may say that the number of genuine believers has been, and is still, small, in comparison of heathens and false Christians. It is your Father's good pleasure] , It hath pleased, &c., though this tense joined with an infinitive has often the force of the present. Our Lord intimated, God has already given you that kingdom which consists in righteousness, peace, and joy in the Holy Ghost, and has undertaken to protect and save you to the uttermost; therefore, fear not; the smallness of your number cannot hurt you, for omnipotence itself has undertaken your cause.   Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary: No comment on this specific verse.   Quotes on Luke 12:32-40 Sell what ye have -- This is a direction not given to all the multitude, (much less is it a standing rule for all Christians,) neither to the apostles;  for they had nothing to sell, having left all before;  but to his other disciples, mentioned verse 22, and Acts 1:15;  especially to the seventy, that they might be free from all worldly entanglements. - John Wesley, Notes Upon the New Testament, Vol. 1, on Luke 12:33 [This passage speaks] of that readiness to be on the move, not to get bogged down in false securities on the assumption that we have here an abiding city. - Reginald H. Fuller, Preaching the Lectionary, p. 495 It is not addressed to the lazy but to the worried and to those who are tempted to join the rat-race.  They are urged to trust in God and to get their priorities right. - I.H. Marshall, New Bible Commentary, Revised (1970):  Luke, p. 908 It is the unspeakable folly of the most men to mind and pursue the wealth of this world more than the wealth of the other world, that which is merely for the body and for time, more than that which is for the soul and eternity. - Matthew Henry, Commentary, Vol. 5, p. 711 The disciples of Jesus should not act like those who do not know God as their Father. - J. McNicol, New Bible Commentary (1954): Luke, p. 853 Taking up a common OT figure, he describes the disciples as the sheep of God.  This suggests that they are the humble people who are ready to accept the divine rule. - William Baird, Interpreter's One-Volume Commentary: Luke, p. 680 Shortly, we must, every one of us, quit our earthly tent, and leave to others that which we called ours.  Fortunate for us if we have sent on ahead for a Reservation in the Eternal Mansions of God. - Henry H. Halley, Halley's Bible Handbook, p. 511 The seed and beginning of the Kingdom are the "little flock" of those whom Jesus came to gather around him, the flock whose shepherd he is. - Ratzinger, Joseph, Imp., Catechism of the Catholic Church,  ¶764 The reassurance is given to the flock despite its small size.... The giving of the kingdom echoes that of Daniel 7:13-14, where it is promised to one like a Son of Man (= "the saints" of Israel in the Danielic context);  now it becomes the heritage of Jesus' disciples.  See 22:29-30, where Jesus himself confers his own kingship on his apostles. - Fitzmyer, Joseph A., Trans., Anchor Bible, Vol. Luke X-XXIV, p.980 The words good pleasure no doubt express a supreme and sovereign purpose;  but God's purposes are never matters of mere blank power;  but are founded in infinite benevolence and wisdom.   God is omnipotent love and infinite reason;  and his sovereignty is the enthronement of true divine excellence and perfect goodness over the universe. - D.D. Whedon, Commentary on the Gospels, Vol. Luke-John, p. 128-129

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