Luke 12:14

And he said unto him, Man, who made me a judge or a divider over you?
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Cornelius a Lapide

AD 1637
But He said unto him, Prayer of Manasseh , who made Me a judge or a divider over you? The word "man" is a Hebraism for an unknown person, as in Luke , Peter said, " Prayer of Manasseh , I am not," and Luke 22:60, " Prayer of Manasseh , I know not what thou sayest." The meaning Isaiah , This is a matter of the courts which dispose of secular questions: it has no part in Me, who teach and dispense a heavenly heritage. Christ does not here deny that He has judicial power, for He was the King of kings and the Lord of lords; but He wished to use His power over a covetous man to cure him of his greed, and to teach him to prefer heavenly to earthly things, and to give way willingly to them, according to His own words, vi29 , "From him that taketh away thy cloke withhold not thy coat also." "He rightly sets aside earthly things," says S. Ambrose, "who came down to us for heavenly ones. Hence this brother is rebuked not undeservedly, for he would fain have occupied the dispenser of heavenly t...

George Leo Haydock

AD 1849
Judge Our Saviour does not here mean to say that he or his Church had not authority to judge, as the Anabaptists foolishly pretend; for he was appointed by his Father, the King of kings, and the Lord and Judge of all. He only wished to keep himself as much detached as possible from worldly concerns: 1. Not to favour the opinion of the carnal Jews, who expected a powerful king for the Messias. 2. To show that the ecclesiastical ministry was entirely distinct from political government, and that he and his ministers were sent not to take care of earthly kingdoms, but to seek after and prepare men for a heavenly inheritance. (St. Ambrose, Euthymius, Ven. Bede)

Knowing this first, that no prophecy of the scripture is of any private interpretation - 2 Peter 1:20

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