Luke Chapter 22 verse 38 Holy Bible
And they said, Lord, behold, here are two swords. And he said unto them, It is enough.
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And they said, Lord, here are two swords. And he said, It is enough.
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And they said, Lord, behold here are two swords. And he said to them, It is enough.
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And they said, Lord, behold, here are two swords. And he said unto them, It is enough.
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They said, "Lord, behold, here are two swords." He said to them, "That is enough."
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And they said, `Sir, lo, here `are' two swords;' and he said to them, `It is sufficient.'
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 38. - And they said, Lord, behold, here are two swords. And he said unto them, It is enough. As so often, the disciples took their Master's words with curious literalness, and, as a reply, produced two swords, as if these two poor weapons could help them in the coming times of sore need. If they were to stand firm in the long trial-season which lay before them, they must surely provide themselves with very different weapons to these; their arms in the campaign of the future must be forged in no earthly workshop. But our Lord sadly declined then to enter into further explanation. His meaning would be all clear to them soon, so he closed the dialogue with the words, "It is enough." This verse was curiously perverted in the famous Bull of Pope Boniface VIII., "Unam sanctam," to prove his possession of both secular and spiritual power: "Dicentibus apostolis, ecce gladii duo, in Ecclesia scilicet, quum apostoli loquereutur, non respondit Dominus nimis esse, sed satis... Uterque ergo in potestate est Ecclesiae, spiritualis scilicet gladius et materialis."
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(38) Behold, here are two swords.--Peter, we find, had one (John 18:10); we can only conjecture who had the other. Possibly, Andrew; possibly, one of "the sons of thunder."It is enough.--Here again there is a touch of grave irony. The "two swords" were enough, and more than enough, for Him who did not mean them to use the swords at all. The word for "enough" may be noted as used far more often by St. Luke than in the other Gospels. The mystical interpretation which sees in the two swords the symbol of the spiritual and temporal authority committed to St. Peter, and to the Pope as his successor, stands on a level with that which finds the relations of the Church and the State foreshadowed in the "two great lights" of Genesis 1:16. Both are simply the dreams of a diseased fancy, and find their fit home at last in the limbo of vanities.
