Quotes & Notes on:     Luke 21:19    John Wesley,  Notes On the New Testament (1755): In your patience possess ye your souls-Be calm and serene, masters of yourselves, and superior to all irrational and disquieting passions. By keeping the government of your spirits, you will both avoid much misery, and guard the better against all dangers. 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:  The Christian's battle is won by endurance and not by violence, and he that can patiently hold out unto the end can, by the grace of God, save his soul. Treasury of Scripture Knowledge:  Lu 8:15; Ps 27:13; 37:7; 40:1; Ro 2:7; 5:3; 8:25; 15:4; 1Th 1:3 2Th 3:5; Heb 6:11; 10:36; Jas 1:3; 5:7-11; Re 1:9; 2:2; 3:10 Re 13:10; 14:12   Robertson's Word Pictures: Future middle of ktaomai, to acquire. They will win their souls even if death does come.   William Burkitt's Notes: No comment on this verse.   Family Bible Notes: In your patience possess ye your souls; the word "possess" is here to be taken in the sense of gaining or saving. The whole verse might be rendered, By your endurance save ye your souls; the same as, "He that shall endure unto the end, the same shall be saved."   1599 Geneva Bible Notes: Though you are surrounded on all sides with many miseries, yet nonetheless be valiant and courageous, and bear out these things bravely.   People's New Testament Commentary: No comment on this verse.   Albert Barnes' Commentary:   In your patience. Rather by your perseverance. The word patience here means constancy or perseverance in sustaining afflictions. Possess ye your souls. Some read here the future instead of the present of the verb rendered possess. The word possess means here to preserve or keep, and the word souls means lives. This passage may be thus translated: By persevering in bearing these trials you will save your lives, or you will be safe; or, by persevering preserve your lives, that is, do not yield to these calamities, but bear up under them, for he that endureth to the end, the same shall be saved.   Jamieson-Faussett Brown:  No comment on this verse.   Spurgeon Devotional Commentary:  No comment on this verse.   Adam Clarke's Commentary:  In your patience] Rather, your perseverance, your faithful continuance in my word and doctrine. Ye will preserve your souls. Ye shall escape the Roman sword, and not one of you shall perish in the destruction of Jerusalem. Instead of , possess, or preserve ye, I read , ye shall preserve. This reading is supported by AB-B, five others; both the Syriac, all the Arabic, AEthiopic, Vulgate, all the Itala except two, Origen, Macarius, and Tertullian.   Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary:  No comment on this verse.

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