Luke 6:35

“But love ye your enemies, etc.] As before urged in (<420627>Luke 6:27) and do good and lend; not to your friends only, but to your enemies; hoping for nothing again; either principal or interest, despairing of seeing either; lending to such persons, from whom, in all appearance, it is never to be expected again. The Persic version renders it, “that ye may not cause any to despair”: and the Syriac version, “that ye may not cut off”, or “cause to cease the hope of men”; and the Arabic version, “that ye do not deceive the hope of any” that is, by sending such away, without lending to them, who come big with expectations of succeeding: and your reward shall be great: God will bless you in your…”

“See this passage fully illustrated in the sermon on the mount, in Matt. 5–7. Luke 6:21 That hunger now - Matthew has it, “that hunger and thirst after righteousness.” Matthew has expressed more fully what Luke has briefly, but there is no contradiction. Luke 6:24-26 These verses have been omitted by Matthew. They seem to have been spoken to the Pharisees. Who are rich - In this world’s goods. They loved them; they had sought for them; they found their consolation in them. It implies, farther, that they would not seek or receive consolation from the gospel. They were proud, and would not seek it; satisfied, and did not desire it; filled with cares, and had no time or disposition to attend to…”

“love: Luk 6:27-31; Lev 25:35-37; Psa 37:26, Psa 112:5; Pro 19:17, Pro 22:9; Rom 5:8-10; Co2 8:9 and ye: Mat 5:44, Mat 5:45; Joh 13:35, Joh 15:8; Jo1 3:10-14, Jo1 4:7-11 for: Psa 145:9; Act 14:17 Luke 6:36”